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Infra-Red Sky Lab. One of MRDC's proudest accomplishments thus far is an aerial reconnaissance laboratory, built aboard a Royal Thai Air Force C-47 transport. Equipped with cameras and infra-red sensors, similarly equipped planes have been making thermal maps showing the heat patterns of heavily forested areas in southern Thailand, which is presently plagued by Chinese-led bands of Communist terrorists. Once the normal heat pattern of an area has been established, trained operators of the secret equipment aboard the C-47 can quickly spot any thermal changes on the map - changes that could be caused...
Some of the infra-red techniques devised for the sky lab - as well as oth er MRDC developments - are also being used in Viet Nam, where there is no longer time or space for the methodical research going on in Bangkok...
...some place else in the loaf. Thus to compensate for space lost by the indoor-outdoor sculpture garden and the host of first-floor functional requirements, from coat racks and publications desk to unloading platforms, Breuer designed cantilevered upper floors to produce progressively larger galleries culminating in a lofty, sky-lit top gallery...
...SPIES IN THE SKY. A different kind of "communications" satellite has already been widely used by both the U.S. and Russia. A considerable number of the U.S.'s orbiting objects are surveillance satellites that guard the U.S. against surprise attacks and provide constant watch over both Russian and Red Chinese territory. Since the U-2 flights over Russia were halted in 1960, the U.S. has had to depend heavily on its Samos, Ferret, Midas and Vela systems for vital intelligence about the Soviet Union. With those satellites, the U.S. has mapped and photographed Russia's missile sites...
...nation might make technological advances that would enable it to deny the use of space to others. For this reason the U.S. is apprehensive about the expected launching, probably next year, of a Russian-manned space laboratory called the Proton-a huge, stable reconnaissance and surveillance "island in the sky" manned by relays of crews. The Proton may be the prototype of a command ship that could control whole fleets of spaceships capable of denying to the U.S. the "near space" between the atmosphere and the 600-mile-high Van Allen Belt. Washington's answer is its own Manned...