Word: skies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Television equipment aboard an unmanned satellite will transmit to the ground observations on the ultra-violet region of the sky. This part of the electromagnetic spectrum is so blocked by the earth's atmosphere that such measurements cannot be made from the surface...
...four-color map of the sky can be obtained by observations from the satellite for seven months, the scientists calculate. Key to probing space with such relatively simple telescopic satellite are the ground stations, of which at least two will be needed...
Here was Nikita Khrushchev, the jaunty improviser enthroned as solemn Marxist prophet, pointing out the promise of history's biggest pie in the sky. It was an occasion to bring back memories of the first Congress of Victors-the 17th, in 1934, when the party sang the praises of Secretary-General Stalin (who had similarly licked but not yet liquidated his rivals), and when young Moscow Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev first won election to the party's holy of holies, the Central Committee...
...foot Atlas, present mainstay of the U.S. missile arsenal, thundered aloft in the morning darkness. It hung in the sky as a white dot of light for more than three minutes before fading...
Ever since Soviet Astronomer Nikolai A. Kozyrev reported that he had seen a volcano-like eruption on the moon early in November, non-Russian astronomers have been waiting to see his evidence. Last week they got it: a long, detailed report in Sky and Telescope, published at Harvard College Observatory...