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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...object incrusted with antennas and solar cells, and packed with instruments. As Lunik passed 4,000 miles below the moon's south side, the moon's gravitation tugged at it, pulling it upward (south to north) and behind the moon. This was as planned, the Russians said, so that when Lunik III returned to earth it would come closest to the Northern Hemisphere, where radio stations on Soviet territory could communicate with it to best advantage...
Lunik's course and timing were chosen, the Russians said, so that on the far side it would come close to a line drawn between the moon and the sun. As it approached the line, an electronic signal from the earth started its automatic machinery-and all sorts of things began to happen. Lunik was spinning (for directional stability) with one of its ends pointing roughly toward the sun; the first thing the orienting mechanism did was to stop the spinning, probably by ejecting small spurts of gas through nozzles. Then optical viewing devices looking through ports...
...shot, it passed into a developing and fixing device that was specially designed to function properly under conditions of weightlessness. After being dried, the film went into a case to wait for transmission to earth. Some of this operation was automatic, but marks on the moving film, the Russians said, caused radio signals to be sent to the earth and enabled Soviet scientists more than a quarter of a million miles away to control the picture-snapping and photo-finishing process on the far side of the moon...
Moving swiftly, Journal-American Publisher Joseph Kingsbury Smith had a $3,100,000 libel suit filed against the Guild. "Deliberate malice or shocking irresponsibility," said Smith of the article. "It is idiotic to think that the management of the Journal-American would be planning to suspend publication...
...want Dubois?" The answer: "No! To the firing squad!" Ducking out a rear door, Dubois was picked up by a military guard, led through the howling, spitting mob to a taxi and safety at the Havana Hilton Hotel. Back in his room, Dubois made light of the danger. Said he: "Tell the boys at home not to worry...