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Lobbing a working communications satellite out to the fringes of space was a signal achievement. The task of repairing it in orbit seemed wildly improbable. But when Bell Telephone Laboratories' Telstar sullenly ignored a command after four months of faithful performance, Bell's electronic doctors wasted no time. While unresponsive Telstar circled the earth in silence, they spent six frantic weeks in their labs concocting a cure for its ailment...
There were other big decisions and stunning achievements. In space, the U.S. creditably launched not only John Glenn but Telstar and Mariner II, but it was a team of anonymous Russian scientists who made the year's biggest space news by lofting the space twins, Nikolayev and Popovich, on record-breaking, three-day tandem orbits of the earth...
Bell Telephone Laboratories' famous Telstar carries a timer that will silence its beacon transmitter after 17,700 hours-about two years. Bulova engineers are now working on timers that will turn instruments off and on again automatically. This will permit a satellite to take periodic readings of space conditions over long periods of time without demanding exclusive use of a radio channel...
...Telstar brought the pomp and pageantry, and even a searching closeup of the Pope's joyful if weary expression. Yet the true awe of last week's opening of Vatican Council II lay in seeing and sensing the variety, implicit power, and sheer numbers of the bishops, patriarchs and abbots who paraded into St. Peter's to start history's biggest religious council...
Shooting for the Moon. At a time when the orbiting Telstar has created international television and Tiros satellites are predicting the weather, U.S. scientists justifiably scoff at charges that they lack inventiveness. But the consumer has little everyday use for a rocket or a reactor, and many economists fear that so much ingenuity is being spent on space and defense that the consumer sector is shortchanged. More than 70% of the $16 billion which the U.S. invests each year in research and development goes for Government work, with the result that the share of the gross national product spent...