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Shortly before 11, the Pope was borne aloft for the bobbing processional back through the Santa Marta door; outside, he stepped into his car for the brief drive to the Apostolic Palace. As he moved out of sight, blessing his visitors, the basilica echoed to the chant of "Viva il Papa, viva il Papa." Slowly the crowd drifted away; a few remained to pray and recollect. There had been no great words spoken, nor, for most of the pilgrims, any personal encounter with Roman Catholicism's ruler; yet nearly all left the basilica awed and exhilarated. "An impressive experience...
Astronauts John Glenn and Scott Carpenter both looked down on the airglow layer from their soaring Mercury capsules and found it as bright from that vantage point as the earth under a quarter moon. Then, last May, Gordon Cooper took a special camera aloft with him and photographed the airglow as he passed over Australia on his 16th orbit. With color film twice as fast as anything available commercially, he shot a sharply defined green band 16 miles thick, distinct from the blue-white earth some 65 miles below. "It must have been a tremendous experience, seeing this wedding ring...
...Eastern. The strain of financing long-range equipment, plus the difficulty of battling the established carriers, proved too much for Northeast; the line went more than $44 million into the hole during its seven years on the run. For the past 2½ years, it has been kept aloft only by financial transfusions from Industrialist Howard Hughes, whose Hughes Tool Co. owns 80% of Northeast's stock. To soften the effects of its decision, the CAB offered to grant Northeast a subsidy; by coincidence, the offer came on the same day that the White House released a special...
...diagnostic craft can be sent aloft for a test, they can also be orbited to watch for tests. At present, they are the only practical policemen U.S. science can build. When a nuclear bomb explodes in the vacuum of space, it does not give the great flash of light that it gives in the atmosphere. About two-thirds of its total energy appears as a brief, enormously powerful burst of soft X rays, rather like those that are used to treat skin diseases. Those soft X rays cause a soft glow when they hit the atmosphere, but they are dissipated...
...extra flight time by flying his family to visit relatives in Szczecin (formerly Stettin), on the East German border. Obacz crammed his wife and two sons, Lester, 9, and Christopher, 5, into the rear seat of a prop-driven, two-seater training plane. Only after they were aloft did he tell them-over the plane's intercom-that he was making a break. To avoid Communist radar detection, he hedgehopped over the ground, never flew higher than 150 ft. throughout the entire 150-mile trip. When one Polish ground station called for his location, Obacz did not reply...