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...toughest problems of space navigation is to dress spacemen so they can live and function outside the controlled environment of their cabins. Even for high-altitude airplane pilots, protective suits are essential. Above 63,000 ft. (where the blood boils), the air is as bad as a vacuum for any pilot who bails out into it. Last week the Air Force showed off a "full pressure suit" that is an advance over its predecessors. But it would not by any means permit its wearer to take a stroll on the moon...
Zenkovsky spoke to the Slavic Club on "Islam and the Soviet Union." There is a great danger, he asserted, that Marxism will fill the vacuum left by the disintegration of the Islamic religion as a social force...
Escape Velocity. When the Aerobee's nose exploded 55 miles up, the focused force of the shaped charges made three jets of aluminum pellets shoot into the near-vacuum like shot from three shotguns. The Air Force announcement is none too clear about what happened, but Maurice Dubin, physicist in charge of the project, thinks that some of the pellets reached the speed of 40,000 m.p.h. A photograph taken of the explosion showed meteorlike trails whose speed could be measured by a fast-moving shutter on the camera...
...Yale, 1925), he spent his early career studying the phenomenon of ionization, began working on the cyclotron as early as 1930. He first demonstrated it that year with a crude but scientifically overwhelming do-it-yourself kit: a kitchen chair, clothes tree, toy-sized four-inch magnet, pie-sized vacuum chamber made of window glass, brass and sealing wax. Nobel Prizewinner (1939) Lawrence is a humorous, vigorous man who steams around his labs with-as nucleonics folk term it-all rods in. He plays tennis, fiddles with television (he invented a color TV tube in his garage), explains...
Unfortunately, there are other incidental characters scattered about for various reasons, and some of them detract considerably from the fun. George Cole is unnecessarily tedious as a naive vacuum cleaner salesman, and Jill Adams's prettiness does not hide her bland acting as a bride-to-be with whom Cole gets entangled under...