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...experiments that the occupants of a MOL will perform during its prolonged flight that are remarkable. As an Air Force project, MOL has definite military goals. It could be used for spy-in-the-sky surveillance, nuclear-test detection, target reconnaissance and weather reporting. But equipped with cameras, radar and infra-red sensors, a manned space station could have endless peaceful uses. It could map ocean currents, help locate underground water, experiment with modifying the weather, and take improved pictures of the stars and planets. At San Francisco, for example, International Business Machines engineers suggested that an orbiting laboratory...
...level bombing in bad weather is a deadly job. The same radar used to find targets can help a plane to navigate safely past hills or mountains, but it may also alert defenders equipped to pick up its blips. Navigation with the help of ground-based radio-beam transmitters can rarely be counted on over enemy territory. What pilots need is a system that will lead them along their chosen route without signaling their presence to enemy trackers...
Known as microwave radiometry, the system would be less vulnerable to the enemy than radar, and much less expensive than inertial navigational systems. It has thus far been shrouded in military secrecy, but it is no secret that it holds obvious advantages for planes on low-flying bombing missions...
None of the political problems, however, could obscure the very real triumph that the day was meant to observe. The two-lane Mont Blanc tunnel, air-conditioned and equipped with ultramodern radar traffic control, will shorten the road between Paris and Rome by 125 miles-even more when the long winter snows close the Alpine passes. It is expected to be used by at least 1.2 million vehicles a year, each of which will pay tolls ranging from $3.25 (for a small European car) to $20 (for a bus). Just before its Italian entrance, a proud new road sign told...
...Jack N. James, 44, expert in radar guidance control and organizing genius of the JPL team, was recently promoted to the job of Assistant Deputy Director of JPL in charge of lunar and planetary projects. He headed the group that built Mariner II in the incredibly brief time of eleven months, also organized the Mariner IV team...