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...bound. The membrane's natural preference for oxygen over most other gases (G.E. scientists, including Robb, do not yet know why) may soon result in a revolutionary unit to supply an enriched mixture of 35% oxygen for military field hospitals as well as in improved breathing systems for spacecraft and submarines. Other possibilities: space suits that cool off astronauts even as they perspire; a substitute for the very expensive heart-lung machine used in open-heart surgery. In this application, the membrane would separate blood and oxygen, perform some of the same functions as a human lung...
...aisles of southend supermarkets were almost bare. Boeing, the city's biggest employer and once the nation's largest defense contractor, was on the ropes. It had lost the multibillion-dollar TFX fighter contract to General Dynamics and had its contract for the Dyna-Soar manned spacecraft abruptly canceled. Its defense business had fallen by $150 million since 1962, and its work force had dropped by 12,000 to 92,100. Boeing was undergoing an agony that afflicts many U.S. corporations in a day of selective defense cutbacks: the necessity of finding something to fill that aching void...
...equipment that will permit it to pick up weather pictures when Nimbus is overhead. By week's end Nimbus had snapped more than 2,000 pictures and transmitted them to NASA receiving stations at Gilmore Creek, Alaska, and Rosman, N.C. "I won't say that one Nimbus spacecraft does the work of thousands of ground-based stations," said Nimbus Project Manager Harry Press. "But the potential of weather satellites is now precisely that...
...attraction if it were closer to the center of the fair. The most imposing array of rocketry assembled outside Cape Kennedy includes the TIROS and Telstar satellites, Scott Carpenter's Mercury capsule with a dummy of the astronaut inside, the 90-ft.-high Titan II-Gemini rocket and spacecraft, and a foretaste of the future: models of the butt end of the monster rocket Saturn V, its Apollo capsule, and Lem, the lunar excursion module that is supposed to put man on the moon...
Surveyor & Orbiter. What will buoyant J.P.L. try next? Two more photographic Rangers are in preparation, and they will probably search for smooth lunar plains unscored by splashed-out rocks, and otherwise suitable for landings. Later, J.P.L.'s unmanned Surveyor spacecraft will soft-land on the moon, collect lunar material, analyze it on the spot and radio to earth reports of its chemical and physical character. For large-scale moon-mapping, J.P.L.'s Orbiter will whirl closely around the moon, transmitting thousands of pictures of its surface. With J.P.L.'s unmanned space, technology now in full flower, such...