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...Geiger counters had been carried aloft in the nose of an Aerobee rocket, and when their records were recovered, scientists could hardly believe the data. If the figures were correct, there was an object up there in the constellation Scorpio that has yet to be spotted by the most sensitive optical or radio telescopes. That object is spewing out more X rays than had been calculated to come from all the rest of the billions of stars in the galaxy put together. But because they are unable to penetrate the earth's atmosphere, the rays remain invisible to instruments...
Wheeling with Stars. Physicist Riccardo Giacconi, who had planned the experiment along with Herbert Gursky and Frank Paolini of American Science & Engineering, Inc. in Cambridge, Mass., waited impatiently for the next X-ray measuring rocket. When that rocket was fired aloft last October, though, its instruments viewed another part of the sky; they did not record what was going on in Scorpio. They did report on two weaker X-ray sources, and their findings suggested that the original, strong X-ray source was probably located far out in space, beyond the reaches of the solar system, wheeling around the earth...
...rocket pads at Cape Canaveral have been comparatively quiet for months. Only an occasional missile roars aloft, and to jaded Florida bird watchers, the Atlas-Agena that lifted off last week was far from novel. But this time the familiar workhorse carried a brand-new payload: its nose was fitted with two icosahedrons (two-sided solid figures) about 4 ft. in diameter. And the angular cargo was destined to play a large part in policing the cold...
...Algeria, however, voiced no objection to De Gaulle's upcoming Sahara missile shot, which will send a telemetered cat aloft next month, as a follow-up to the three rats sent soaring in earlier French rockets...