Word: smithsonian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Science begins with the wide-eyed wonder of the nursery," J. Allen Hynek, Associate Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, said in a letter to the Boston Herald yesterday...
Information on the density of the upper atmosphere obtained from observations of the Russian satellites will lead the United States to launch its own satellite higher than was originally planned, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory announced yesterday...
Fred L. Whipple, director of the observatory, said that a joint study of Sputnik by Smithsonian and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory revealed that the air at an altitude of 140 miles is "five times denser" than previous American rocket studies had shown...
...Institute also released information regarding the death of Alpha I, the first Sputnik's rocket, which should come to earth over the weekend. Dr. Armand Spitz of the Smithsonian staff stated that the "actual death of Alpha should be a spectacular event, a bright flashing streak visible for hundreds of miles...
Observation difficulties have made it impossible for scientists to determine exactly when the rocket will enter the earth's atmosphere. However, Smithsonian scientists have definitely agreed that it will fall before the originally-predicted date of mid-December, possibly within a few days...