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...boost er. Says a U.S. engineer: "The Russians probably could soft-land an instrument package on the moon within six months, and they should be able to make a manned landing within 18 months." The U.S. is hard at work on development of big new chemical boosters such as Saturn (1,500,000 Ibs. of thrust), plans to flight-test cheaper, deep-space electrical propulsion systems in 1962, and hopes to make a manned moon orbit in 1963. But the problems of a round trip across 480,000 miles of space are fantastic. The greatest hazard is cosmic radiation...
Continuing his study of astronomical phenomena. Liller used the density of the planet Saturn, estimated at .72 the density of water. Astronomers have calculated, however, that even if the entire planet were made up only of hydrogen, the lightest element, gravitational attraction of atoms would bind them together so tightly that their density would be far greater than...
Many U.S. scientists believe that there is too much emphasis on getting a man into space at the earliest possible moment. The huge expenditures now being poured into Mercury and Saturn could, they argue, be better used for the near future on instrumented vehicles. Says Iowa's Van Allen: "It is still much more effective to build instruments to make scientific observations than it is to support and maintain a man comfortably and helpfully in a spacecraft...
...form three planets: Mercury, Venus and Earth. Another fraction of the cosmic cloud stopped farther away from the sun, forming Mars and the moon. Since these two zones of planet formation overlapped, the earth was able to capture the moon as its satellite. The big outer planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, were formed from a third fraction of the cosmic cloud, whose chemical composition allowed it to be ionized and stopped at a very great distance from...
...SPACE CONTRACTS will help U.S. planemakers take up slack from military-aircraft cutbacks. The latest: $65 million to Douglas for Saturn second-stage units; $50 million to Lockheed for 16 Agena-B rocket vehicles; $29.7 million to Boeing and Martin to start work on Dyna-Soar space glider. NASA space spending is expected to total $2.5 billion annually...