Word: solar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Developed by the David Clark Co. of Worcester, Mass., the suit has a loose outside layer of shiny, aluminized fabric to protect the inner layers and to reflect solar or A-bomb heat. Inside is a coverall of special, airproofed nylon material carefully fitted to the individual wearer's body. In its normal, pressureless state, it is flexible and reasonably comfortable (see cut). Cold air or oxygen can be pumped through it to cool the pilot if his cabin gets...
Disneyland: Walt Disney's hour-long Mars and Beyond on ABC this week (Wed. 7:30 p.m.. E.S.T.) is doubly instructive. It should teach viewers of all ages plenty about the prospects of life and travel in the solar system, should serve TV producers well as a model of how to combine information with entertainment. A dozen Disney artists and animators under Producer-Director Ward Kimball enjoyed the advantage of a subject that is not only fascinating in itself but, since it soars off into the unpicturable, uniquely suited to their technique. They did not confuse the popular...
...stuffed with instruments and equipment. It has air conditioning and feeding devices to keep Little Curly alive and to report her life processes. Russian scientists say that she has been given conditioned reflexes that make her take food and water when a bell rings. Other instruments observe cosmic rays, solar ultraviolet and X rays, temperature and air pressure. A radio transmitter sends coded data back to earth on the same frequencies (40.002 and 20.005 megacycles) that were used by Sputnik I before its batteries died. Professor Boris V. Ukarkin of the Soviet Academy of Sciences promised that the large size...
...considerable weight, the 184.3 lbs. announced by the Russians, is enough for elaborate equipment. Either it or its successors can report on cosmic rays and solar radiation above the atmosphere. They can observe the density of the fringe of the atmosphere, its temperature and composition. They can judge the danger of meteors, the reefs and shoals of space navigation. They can observe the earth's gravitation, its magnetic field, its electric charge, and the cloud patterns of its weather in ways that are impossible for earth-bound humans. Some of these jobs might be difficult for a light satellite...
With the Russian satellite still revolving around the earth, the public is beginning to accept it as a normal part of the solar system. But the public is also asking questions about the implications of the satellite...