Word: space
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would like to commend TIME on its excellent report on Space and the Radiation Belt, which featured the contributions of my brother, James Van Allen [May 4]. I can attest to the accuracy and sharp insight of your staff in regard to the personal aspects of this story...
...House authorized (294-128) a total of $480,500,000 to be spent next fiscal year on civilian space research and exploration...
...happened to meet a courteous and high-domed gentleman, and the gentleman was from the planet Venus. One thing led to another, and some time later a man from Mars and another from Saturn asked him in a hotel lobby if he would like to take a spin in space. The trip aloft included refreshments ("a small glass of colorless liquid") with an "incredibly lovely" blonde named Kalna and an equally lovely brunette named Ilmuth. It ended with a reassuring lecture up there from a great teacher ("No, my son, your world is not the lowest in development...
Word from Flying Objects. Unhappily, he took no other earthling along on his subsequent space jaunts, and his photographs invariably turned out a bit murky because of atmospheric interference, naturally. But his first book (Flying Saucers Have Landed) sold nearly 100,000 copies, and this year he went on a worldwide lecture tour. In England last month, he got a letter from the lady head of the Dutch Unidentified Flying Objects Society, saying that she had received a call from the palace "that the Queen would like to receive...
...Space - Man's Last Frontier (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). The peacetime uses of space-flight research. An inspection tour of a manned missile, conducted by the producers of Omnibus at the new Avco Research Cen ter in Wilmington, Mass...