Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington's Naval Research Laboratory, control center of the U.S.'s satellite Project Vanguard, men worked through the night in the white glare of searchlights to adjust rooftop radio aerials to pick up the pulse beat. Coolheaded scientists at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass, got on the long distance phone to alert amateur astronomers across the U.S., pulled the switch on Operation Moonwatch, the skygazing network the U.S. had set up to track its own unborn earth satellite. Other Smithsonian scientists sorted and fed into an electronic brain the fragmentary reports from moonwatchers, observatories and radio...
...project answers students' requests for their own place to entertain dates. Paid 'Cliffites will operate the Field House and sell sandwiches, cookies, and coffee. A three-speed phonograph and records have been purchased, and record donations are welcome...
...hope there's no danger of that. This is just a big scientific good-will project, and the Russians are just trying to further the common scientific cause. But then again, maybe they're not. Does anyone know the price of a one-way ticket to Uraguay...
...smear out the sharpness of telescopic photographs. Since there is no way to chase the atmosphere away from an astronomical observatory, the next best thing would be to lift the observatory above the troublesome part of the atmosphere. This trick was done for the first time last week by Project Stratoscope of the Office of Naval Research...
...first flight of Project Stratoscope, thinks Dr. Schwarzschild, was so successful that the same method may be used to take pictures of the planets. A larger balloon-borne telescope floating far above atmospheric turbulence might decide once and for all the romantic debate about life on Mars...