Word: space
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Juno. The Army's huge Juno II missile, built around the reliable Jupiter intermediate-range ballistic missile and carrying a 91.5-lb. space laboratory in its nose cone, lifted off its pad and almost immediately veered dangerously inland. The range safety officer jabbed the "destruct" button. Belching orange flame and black smoke, its upper-stage rockets exploding, the space monster crashed to the ground barely 150 ft. from the blockhouse where 55 scientists and technicians were watching (it was more than an hour before they could come out safely). From an observers' stand a quarter of a mile...
...SPACE will be tracked by worldwide communications network to be managed by Western Electric Co. under $25 million U.S. contract. Part of Project Mercury, network is due to be finished in 1960, will monitor satellite's equipment, maintain contact with astronaut...
Meanwhile the University staff will conduct research into dust layers in a portion of the earth's atmosphere, especially through examination of the sun's rays at twilight. This is considered of possible importance to future space travel...
...were foiled by clouds, but many reported clear skies. The films, tapes and other records that they made do not look like much, but with careful analysis in the next few months a better picture of the Venusian atmosphere will be assembled. When the first space traveler from earth attempts to explore Venus, he will know much about what to expect, and for that he can thank winking Regulus so many trillion miles away...
...from a vast Jovian version of the double doughnut of Van Allen radiation that surrounds the earth. Ionized particles from the sun zigzagging back and forth in Jupiter's magnetic field must be sending out "synchrotron radiation" like the circling particles in a synchrotron. The theory alerts future space explorers to steer well clear of Jupiter. If their ship should cruise too close, they might be fried by Van Allen radiation 100 times as strong as that surrounding earth...