Word: space
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After working on this politically fused problem for five years, the Eisenhower Administration last week sent Congress a well-turned bill to trim the abuses, keep pension totals from orbiting clear into outer space...
...leaves nothing to guesswork. If Moscow really wants to end the peril of fallout (the Moscow test series last October gave North America the heaviest dose of radioactive material ever), it has no excuse for further delay. Meanwhile, as soon as the President lifts the ban on underground and space testing, U.S. planners can get on with sorely needed nuclear development (clean bombs, anti-missile missiles, compact Army and Navy weapons and pure-science experiments) at a time when such strength can be the tranquilizer for Communist-inspired tensions in Germany, the Mideast and Asia...
...Norwegian air force's northern command, picked up the telephone. Calling him from California was an old friend, U.S. Air Force Lieut. Colonel Charles A. Mathison. The colonel's bizarre message: Be on the lookout for a recoverable capsule likely to float down from outer space at about 0230 or 0300, Spitzbergen time. Thus last week began one of the most incredible treasure hunts in the short, incredible history of space...
...jammed with equipment measuring the satellite's ability to stabilize itself in free flight (see SCIENCE). Significantly, the capsule was the first of its kind, a forerunner of the type that will later carry biomedical specimens and pave the way for the development of reconnaissance and man-in-space satellites...
...earth, it will release all kinds of radiation at the same instant. According to relativity theory, the waves should still be traveling together when they reach the earth nine minutes later. But if gamma rays, for instance, prove to travel measurably faster than infrared through the vacuum of space, relativity, the supreme law of the universe, will have to be revised...