Word: professor
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...foretaste of the current U.S.-Soviet rivalry, the next space pioneer was an American. Robert Hutchings Goddard, born in Worcester, Mass, in 1882, was not only a far-sighted theorist but the maker of the first well-engineered space hardware. In 1915, when he was an assistant professor at Clark University in Worcester, he built solid-propellant rockets, and won a $5,000 grant from the Smithsonian Institution. In 1919 the Smithsonian published a brief Goddard report which predicted, among other things, that a multistage rocket weighing only ten tons could land a small payload on the moon...
...payload) of Sputnik III proved to the space-wise that the Russians had practically licked the initial problems of interplanetary flight. U.S. scientists reckon that the Soviets' Lunik, with only a little more speed, would have swooped past Mars and soared out toward the asteroids. George Paul Sutton, professor of aeronautical engineering at M.I.T., believes that present propulsion systems with a little refinement can send a space vehicle as far as Jupiter or even to Saturn, 750 million miles from the earth...
Radiation Erosion. The newest and most radical moon theory was developed by British Cosmologist Thomas Gold, now at Harvard. Professor Gold agrees that the moon was pockmarked long ago by large meteors, and it may have been built up entirely by such accretion. But he does not think that the smooth, dark areas that are called maria (seas), because early astronomers thought they were exactly that, are filled with lava. He thinks that they are low places full of fine dust that was removed by a kind of erosion from the moon's highlands. In some places...
...lived chemical batteries or feeble solar batteries. To tell its story properly from the distance of Mars, a probe needs as much power as an earth-side radio station. One possibility is a nuclear battery getting its energy from radioactive materials. Another (one form of which was invented by Professor Gold) is a solar battery of gossamer-light plastic film whose large area will catch several kilowatts of solar power...
Governor Furcolo's budget calling for a three per cent state sales tax is "ill-considered and a garish violation of the first plank of the Democratic party platform," Arnold M. Soloway, assistant professor of Economics, declared yesterday...