Word: rovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many, the exchanges at the President's news conference last week must have been a bit baffling. A reporter asked about "Project Rover." The President's answer cited "Nerva" and "Rift.'' Despite the lingo, the reply carried considerable significance for the future of U.S. exploration in space...
...Project Rover, one of the nation's most ambitious space programs, is designed to build a nuclear-powered rocket engine that could carry man to the moon or beyond. Nerva is the engine itself. Rift the vehicle that Nerva will push. President Kennedy had just returned from a tour of Jackass Flats, 90 miles out of Las Vegas, where work on Rover is under way. He had gone because New Mexico Senator Clinton Anderson, former chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy and now a member of the Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee, had warned...
Missed Targets. Everyone likes Rover -the White House, the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Senator Anderson insists that nuclear-powered rocketry is as important to U.S. security as the hydrogen bomb. Moreover, the theory behind Rover is disarmingly simple. In present U.S. and Russian space rockets, thrust is produced by the combustion of highly volatile chemical propellants. In Rover, a small nuclear reactor will generate heat that will expand hydrogen. This, in turn, will be directed out of the rear of the rockets to provide thrust. Because the reactor and the hydrogen take up relatively little...
Floating Studio. The oldest member of the new school was Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, who began painting landscapes-out of doors in 1822, when he was 26. A rover who toted his easel all over France, Italy and the Low Countries, he captured farmhouses, fishing villages, animals and people in muted colors of luminous clarity. He had a sense of structure that both Seurat and Cezanne admired, but he was more interested in the surface of nature than in its interior turbulence. His quiet scenes were sometimes a bit melancholy, sometimes vibrant with a profound...
...space satellites, and an AEC project is developing a special reactor for use inside space vehicles (see SCIENCE). Before many years, AEC predicts, nuclear engines will be propelling vehicles through space, as they already propel submarines, surface warships, and the nuclear merchant ship Savannah. AEC's Project Rover is actively working toward that...