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McFarland and colleagues at the Center will also investigate the poisonous properties of fuels, radioactivity of power sources and spaceship cabins, and the many problems of breathing in closed systems...
These days the scientific headlines all seem to spring from the multimillion dollar Government contracts that send one spaceship after another into orbit and beyond. But all the advances in military weaponry, all the new moves into space, require more than Government money; they dip deep into man's slowly accumulated capital of basic scientific research. And nowhere is that capital reaccumulated more earnestly than in the private laboratories of U.S. industry...
...first cosmonaut to blast off was Major Andrian Grigorievich Nikolaev, 32, a country boy from the Volga valley who had been the standby for both Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov on their previous orbital flights. Soon after he was aloft in his spaceship Vostok III, Nikolaev, or "Falcon," as he called himself during radio transmission to the earth, was in touch with Soviet tracking stations and trawlers at sea packed with electronic gear, including some close by the U.S. east coast. U.S. and other Western radio monitors heard Nikolaev's voice loud and clear. Every 88 minutes, Vostok...
...widely heralded, 36-million-mile Venus spaceship, Mariner I. last week climbed dead on course from Cape Canaveral with $4,000,000 worth of sensing equipment crammed into it. Then, after 3½ min. because of what was officially described as "a human error" in the information fed into a computer, Mariner wandered irresolutely off course, and a button presser on the Cape gave it the order to blow itself...
...rejoin the mother ship for the return trip to earth. NASA now thinks that this bizarre-sounding system will prove the easiest, quickest and cheapest way to get the job done. But cautious NASA scientists will continue to study EOR (Earth Orbital Rendezvous), in which a moon-bound spaceship will first refuel from a tanker circling in orbit around the earth...