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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SPACE Lost & Unfound As a step toward the goal of sending a man into space with a high probability of getting him back alive, the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) set out early this year on a new venture: the Discoverer Program, to send satellites into orbit and then try to recover the payload capsules after they had made several trips around the earth. The Discoverer Program's score up to last week: launchings, seven; satellites put into orbit, five; recovery attempts, four; recoveries, none...
...suits of insulated, porous underwear, then a partial-pressure suit, heavy, quilted long underwear, standard Air Force flying suit, heavy G.I. socks, electrically heated socks, heavy woolen socks, rubberized boots (called Li'l Abners), nylon gloves, high-altitude pressure gloves, electrically heated flying gloves, glass-faced space helmet. At 3:30 a.m. he lay down on a tarpaulin on the desert floor and began breathing pure oxygen. In just five hours, red-haired Jet Pilot Joe Kittinger, father of two children, holder of the Distinguished Flying Cross for his historic balloon ascension to 96,000 ft. 2½ years...
...dreary Russia, Moscow University (enrollment: 27,000) is one of the few visible convincers that a primitive nation is out to conquer space. Among its 420 full professors, it boasts 33 members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Famed for aerodynamics and mathematics, it relegates the humanities to the old university (founded in 1755) in downtown Moscow. Its real heart is the new (1953) Palace of Science, a vast complex of 37 buildings that sprawl atop the suburban Lenin Hills on the site of what-ten years ago-was a peasant village...
Volunteers for Space. On hand this year are 15 American graduate students (and five wives), members of the second batch of Americans-13 more are at Leningrad University-to study in Russia under last year's cultural agreement. As guests of the Russian government, they get a handsome 1,500 ruble ($150) monthly allowance, twice the subsidy Russia gives its own graduate students. They work hard (law, language, economics), and live well in comfortable dormitory rooms, but a stiff weekly inspection by the dust-hunting "sanitary commission" is a reminder of where they are. They are graded on cleanliness...
Like architects the world over, Tange also eyed with excitement the new world of space-spanning shells. For Ehime's convention hall, he tried a low, curving shell set with 133 ceiling lights (see color); for Shizuoka, he designed a hyperbolic paraboloid auditorium that holds an audience of 5,000. His Tokyo City Hall this year received the first International Grand Prix awarded by France's Architecture d'Aujourd...