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...most auto races, the competing cars have about as much in common with the family flivver as an Apollo spacecraft has with a Piper Cub. Not in the Trans-American Championship for sports sedans. Commonly known as the Trans-Am, the competition is limited to genuine stock cars; the rules restrict engine size to 305 cu. in. and require that at least 2,500 identical models be in general distribution. The result is what Tracy Bird, executive director of the sponsoring Sports Car Club of America, calls "product identity," a sense of involvement that has drawn more than...
...Leary's basic complaint is that the astronaut program is considerably more operational than scientific because of the U.S. test-pilot syndrome. He paints a wry picture of the scientist-astronaut suffering second-class citizenship at the Manned Spacecraft Center. It is true that, while the Russians have already sent astronauts who are predominantly scientists aloft, no American scientist-astronaut has yet been assigned to a space mission...
...southern Argentina. Ground trackers performed equally well. Using new radio navigational gear, they were able to track Soyuz to within about a yard of its actual path. Indeed, the flight went so well that the cosmonauts took time out from their 16-hour work days-exercises, photographic experiments, spacecraft check-outs -to battle ground crews in a longdistance chess match (which ended in a draw on the 36th move...
...spaceship, Soyuz 9. into orbit around the earth. On board were Vostok 3 Cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev, 40-husband of the world's only spacewoman, Valentina Tereshkova-and Rookie Vitaly Sevastyanov, 35. They were the first Russians in space since last October's triple launch of manned Soviet spacecraft...
...Apollo 11 sped back to earth last July, Astronaut Buzz Aldrin kept seeing strange flashes of light in the darkened spacecraft, even though his eyes were closed. "I think I'm going out of my mind," Aldrin told Neil Armstrong. While Armstrong and other astronauts confirmed the mysterious flashes, NASA scientists were at first inclined to attribute them to an optical quirk. Now they have proposed a more plausible explanation: cosmic rays. Though only some of these high-speed particles-mostly protons-manage to break through the shield of the earth's magnetic field, they can easily penetrate...