Word: station
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such items as Trojan prophylactics and Young Peoples' products for acne. When I asked if I could interview him he replied "Absolutely!" told me the best way to get to his office in Piscataway. New Jersey, and arranged for a company employee to pick me up at the train station...
Donors should go to the Red Cross Blood Center on Gloucester Street in Boston on Saturday or to a donor station at Mass. General Hospital on Sunday. Both stations will be open from...
...Services Administration. They then determine the most promising wave-lengths and sections of the sun to observe during the next day. The duty scientist sends these instructions to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center near Washington, D.C., which then transmits the instructions to the satellite via a convenient tracking station...
Goddard Space Center also serves as middle man for data coming from OSO to the Observatory. During each of its 15 daily orbits, the satellite records its observations on a 100 minute long tape. When it passes over a tracking station, the ground controller orders the satellite to replay the entire tape in about five minutes. The tracking station then relays the broadcast to Goddard which sends the data to the duty scientist at 60 Garden Street through a special teletype machine. Tracking stations also ship magnetic tapes of each transmission a week later, and these tapes are eventually analyzed...
...will sit in front of a television screen equipped with a set of cross-hairs. As he watches the sun on the screen, he will aim the cross-hairs at any areas that seem interesting, and the cross-hairs will electronically aim a telescope located outside the orbiting space station. This ability to follow sunspots, active regions, and other events immediately will be a great improvement over the present generation of automated telescopes which must be programmed a day ahead of time, Reeves said...