Word: spaceships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most purposes there are handier ways to communicate, but Dr. Tomiyasu has his eye on a notoriously difficult communication problem. When a missile nose cone or a spaceship slams down through the atmosphere, it surrounds itself with a sheath of plasma (hot, ionized gases) that repels radio waves. Space scientists well remember that during the most critical period of Colonel John Glenn's return to earth from his orbital flight, the radios of his Mercury capsule were blacked out for seven minutes by the plasma sheath. Laser light, if strong enough, can penetrate plasma, and Dr. Tomiyasu believes that...
...result of the collisions might well be radio waves strong enough to be detected far off on the earth. Bright Target. Another result is probably an extremely bright aurora. No human has seen this spectacle because Jupiter always shows the earth an almost entirely sunlit face. If a spaceship from earth ever cruises behind the dark side of Jupiter (never less than 460 million miles away), the crew may see a ring drawn around its darkened magnetic pole in brilliant auroral light. That bright target will illuminate the safest landing spot, the hole in the doughnut, where the explorers will...
...inspected the capsule. Kennedy ?on his first trip to Canaveral?seemed fascinated, and Glenn, in matter-of-fact "hangar talk," described the tense moments when he was reentering the atmosphere. During the inspection, Mrs. John Glenn Sr. expressed some motherly concern over the lack of space in a spaceship: "I'd think your feet would go to sleep lying there so long." John reassured her that in a weightless state there is no feeling of discomfort. "I meant before you went off, while you were waiting there," commented Clara Glenn. Explained her son patiently: "Well, you can exercise...
...basin's few inhabitants are already connected with military space activities and are eager to see the region regain the importance that Canaveral took away from it. Even the small cities beyond the basin's rim are not frightened by the possibility of a misguided spaceship landing in the middle of town. No other spot in the U.S., says the Bulletin, has the same natural advantages, existing facilities, and willingness to accept the risks of the space...
...this was swept aside by the joys of space. Sunshine flooded his cabin. "I saw with my own eyes that the earth was a sphere. Blue coronas on the horizons were really indescribably beautiful. The stars seemed brighter. The spaceship seemed to be standing still and the moon floating by," he rhapsodized, quoting Gogol's "dark sky over which the moon floats." Then he added: "The cosmos awaits the painters and poets...