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...retaking of Sam Thong raised the morale of Prince Souvanna Phouma's government. But at week's end, after a transient lull, the Communists launched a new rocket and mortar attack on Sam Thong, advancing to within 200 yards of the base's airstrip. There was also ominous evidence of continued Communist buildups around Vang Pao's home base just 20 miles to the south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Three-Theater War | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

...rocket's nose cone contained two cameras designed to photograph ultraviolet light from the sun's thin outer layer or chromosphere in the few seconds that the moon blocked out the rest...

Author: By Deborah B. Johnson and Mark W. Oberle, S | Title: Eclipse Awes Viewers Hereandin Nantucket | 3/9/1970 | See Source »

...absolutely text-book launch," Reeves aid. "The weather rocket pointing and recovery were perfect...

Author: By Deborah B. Johnson and Mark W. Oberle, S | Title: Eclipse Awes Viewers Hereandin Nantucket | 3/9/1970 | See Source »

Just seconds before totality, an international group of scientists including Reeves and William H. Parkinson, lecturer in Astronomy, launched a 25-foot Aerobee rocket from NASA's Wallops Island in Virginia...

Author: By Deborah B. Johnson and Mark W. Oberle, S | Title: Eclipse Awes Viewers Hereandin Nantucket | 3/9/1970 | See Source »

international team including ?? M. Reeves and William H. ?? ?son, lecturers in Astronomy, ?? have two ultra-violet light de? ?? ?s aboard one of the 33 rockets ?? ?NASA inteds to fire from Wal? ?? Island. Virginia, tomorrow. The ?? ?ll be used to photograph the ?? or chromosphere as ?? ?ls into the eclipse ?? ?? of light ?? rocket's cameras ?? ?he chemical finger? ?? identify the reactions ?? that region of the sun. ?? ?mosphere is only visible for a few seconds during a total eclipse before the moon covers up the thin layer...

Author: By Mark W. Oberle, | Title: ?? Blotted Out-From the Sky | 3/6/1970 | See Source »

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