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...with radio telescopes designed to detect water vapor in remote parts of our own galaxy, found they could also use the radio telescope to measure the amount of water vapor in the earth's atmosphere. The method proved cheaper and more accurate than previous techniques, like taking samples with rocket probes...
...well as the right to keep 308 mammoth launchers (unmatched by anything in the U.S. arsenal), as a balance to America's sophisticated technology in missile accuracy and in MIRVs (multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles). These separately targeted war heads can be mounted on a single rocket, thus vastly increasing that launcher's destructive potential. Unlike the limitation agreement on ABMs, the freeze on offensive weapons expires this October, although it can be extended...
Press demonstrated additional versatility by his involvement in the 1970 experiment in which a spent Saturn rocket, used to launch an Apollo mission, was crashed onto the moon. The resulting impact, measured by seismographs left on the lunar surface by earlier missions, enabled Press and his fellow seismologists to determine the characteristics of the moon's crust. In 1974 Press led a delegation of U.S. scientists on a tour of Chinese earthquake research centers and returned with the amazing news that the country had an army of 10,000 scientists and 100,000 amateurs engaged in collecting earthquake data...
...painted a heat-absorbing black on the other side. The total weight of the sail and the instrument-packed ship mounted in a hole at its center will be only 5,000 kilograms (11,000 lbs.)-a payload that could easily be launched into earth orbit by a rocket...
Once the package has been hauled by the shuttle into near-earth orbit, a small rocket will push it to escape velocity. At about 100,000 kilometers (60,000 miles) above the earth, the framework will be assembled and the sail deployed automatically...