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...that "the satellite was formed by a coalescence of masses coming together by mutual gravitation." This theory is still in good repute. In the intervening decades TIME has followed man's restless reach for the moon, including the simple experiment of a Princeton student who, 35 years before Ranger VII, took lunar pictures by rigging a movie camera to a telescope. Our moon chronicle continued to note many milestones: the U.S. Army Signal Corps in 1946, bouncing a radar beam off the moon; the early, unsuccessful lunar probe by the Air Force in 1958; the largely successful Pioneer probe...
...said TIME in its Jan. 19, 1959 cover story on space exploration. The cover painting that went with it showed a startled moon having its picture taken by a rocket-mounted camera. Five years later, this painting has come true with the spectacular success of Ranger VII (see SCIENCE...
...moon. But the early 1960s were also marked by many disappointing setbacks for what a 1962 cover story called the "anxious assault on space." And in a 1963 cover on William Pickering, the head of California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and undisputed hero of last week's Ranger triumph, TIME said: "Those were dark days. But each failure became a lecture from space on what to do or not to do the next time...
...years has, of course, belonged to the Science section and its editor since 1945, Jonathan Norton Leonard. Through his Questar telescope, which he also uses for bird watching, Leonard often observes the moon from his home at Hastings-on-Hudson. Like everyone else, Leonard is excited about the Ranger VII pictures, but sees "a lot of unexplained things in them." As for putting a man on the moon, Leonard doesn't think the U.S. will make it by the hoped-for date of 1970, but may well get there by 1975. At any rate, if he had his choice...
...their taste for toads and bamboo shoots along the route. Kong Le perfected an instinct for infantry leadership. He made the right moves, and U.S. military men credited him with a fine field officer's instinct for combat. In 1957, the army sent him to the Philippines for Ranger training. At Camp Vicente Lim in southern Luzon, he won honors in ambush and guerrilla operations, gained bloody battle experience against the Communist Huks in the snake-haunted highlands back of Olongapo. At the same time, Kong Le kept wondering why he was fighting...