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Ready for More. As the flight sped into its third day, the orbit held fairly firm with a 173-mile apogee and a 101-mile perigee, indicating that Gemi ni 4 could stay aloft well into this week...
Telescopes at the bottom of the earth's thick and turbulent atmosphere cannot learn many details about Mars, but the biggest of them, says the report, should give more attention to the Martian problem. Telescopes carried aloft by balloons should study Mars intensively through the transparent upper layers of the atmosphere, and satellite-carried telescopes should take the work another step forward...
Died. Roger Sommer, 87, pioneer French aviator who in August 1909 kept his Farman biplane aloft for 2 hr. 27 min. to break Wilbur Wright's year-old endurance record, days later packed his young son aboard to make the world's first passenger flight, later retired from aviation to join his family's floor-covering business; of a heart attack; in Ste.-Maxime, near Marseille...
...three-stage Douglas Delta rocket that rose above Cape Kennedy last week tossed its 85-lb. payload into a high elliptical orbit with neat precision. Early Bird, first satellite to be sent aloft by Comsat (Communications Satellite Corp.), climbed as high as 22,300 miles above the earth, then curved down as low as 776 miles. When this original orbit had been analyzed and Early Bird was at an apogee, a signal from the earth fired a small rocket motor to give just enough extra speed to put the satellite into a circular orbit that matched the earth...
...girdling curve of a spacecraft in flight.* But before men can make a lunar excursion or perform other active missions outside the earth's atmosphere, they must learn to make those orbit alterations with exquisite precision. Spaceships must be maneuvered so surely that they can meet and mate aloft; their pilots must act as accurate and reliable links in the chain of information and command that loops between computers in flight and computers on the ground. Molly and her men showed surprising skill in that arcane...