Word: smithsonian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Washington's Naval Research Laboratory, control center of the U.S.'s satellite Project Vanguard, men worked through the night in the white glare of searchlights to adjust rooftop radio aerials to pick up the pulse beat. Coolheaded scientists at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass, got on the long distance phone to alert amateur astronomers across the U.S., pulled the switch on Operation Moonwatch, the skygazing network the U.S. had set up to track its own unborn earth satellite. Other Smithsonian scientists sorted and fed into an electronic brain the fragmentary reports from moonwatchers, observatories and radio...
...team located at State Teachers College in New Haven, Conn., reported to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory here that it had tracked the rocket for about 35 seconds when it passed over central Connecticut at 6:23 a.m. EDST...
...Smithsonian scientists also revealed yesterday that the first photograph of the rocket was made Wednesday by an observatory in New Brook, Alberta, Canada. A copy of the picture has been requested by astronomers here, but had not yet been received last night...
Fred L. Whipple, director of the Smithsonian Observatory, speculated that the satellite may be conserving its battery strength by transmitting scientific data back to Russia only on command. A coded radio signal from a station in Russia may activate a sending device within the satellite which would report on scientific measurements once...
...Smithsonian Observatory yesterday issued an appeal for University volunteers to help in its public information section. These volunteers must be Harvard University students, either graduate or undergraduate. They should report to John White, director of public information, at 79 Garden St., between 9 a.m. and 12 midnight...