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...test pilots, scientists, or a combination of the two? All present U.S. astronauts are primarily pilots, and a strong faction in the space business believes that their nerve, quick reactions and experience with flight controls are the indispensable attributes of a successful spaceman. Equally passionate scientists point out that spacecraft are not airplanes and cannot be flown in the same way. Space commanders of the future, they believe, will be cerebral types, at home with electronics, celestial mechanics and computer calculation...
...space exploration got a setback last week when the $10 million, gold-and chrome-plated Ranger V moon probe ran out of electric power before it neared the moon. The launch was perfect, but the spacecraft's solar-powered electric system did not deliver the necessary juice. After 8 hr. 44 min. of flight, Ranger V went dead. Though it may pass close to its target, it will be able to make no observations. Ten more Rangers are scheduled for the vital duty of exploring the moon by instrument before men try to land there...
CELESTIAL MECHANICS : Formerly concerned with movements of planets, now also with those of man-made spacecraft...
Raytheon has high hopes for its near-microscopic microphone. Aside from countless possible uses in industry or the entertainment world or even in spacecraft, the microphone could certainly be used to great advantage in hearing aids, which could be made small enough to fit invisibly inside the ear. A hearing aid could be made even smaller, but the scientists feel that too small a device might get lost in the ear canal...
...solution for it on the strength of their recorded memory of experiences with related problems in the past. The Purdue crew anticipates that the coupled computer systems will be working together well enough to tackle practical problems by late 1964. One possible assignment for them: traveling aboard a spacecraft to scout out the unknown and possibly hostile surfaces of other planets...