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...this day and age when the crooked arms of the TV antenna hold the skyline, rather than the straight arms of the cross, the tithe is a good start [Feb. 16]. Later, someone may reverse the percentage so that we give 90% to God and 10% to ourselves. We could still live better than in the days of Moses...
...after launch, Ranger's C.C. & S. (Central Computer and Sequencer) began issuing commands that had been stored in its electronic brain. Explosive pin-pullers released solar battery panels, which unfolded like the wings of a butterfly. At the same time, Ranger's dish-shaped, long distance radio antenna swung out into position. A few minutes later the C.C. & S. commanded six light sensors to find the direction of the sun. Then an attitude control system of gyros and small nitrogen gas jets went into action, turning Ranger III until it locked on the still-distant sun, its broad...
...Ranger III started a complicated series of maneuvers. Its little gas jets turned it to a new attitude. Then its large midcourse rocket motor burned hydrazine for a specified number of seconds. After the motor shut off, Ranger III locked itself to the sun again and turned its dish antenna toward the earth. Finally it reported, detail by detail, that it had obeyed its orders. But the last-minute midcourse correction was too small. Because of its errant launch, Ranger III still could not score a bull...
...swung away; the camera was turned on and given 30 minutes to warm up. At another memorized command from C.C. & S., it started shooting video pictures of the moon about 30,000 miles away. At this point Ranger III made its first error: it did not hold its dish antenna pointed steadily at the earth; the pictures that it sent to earth were an almost meaningless blur, no use at all to the stay-at-home scientists...
...truth. His Scott 310-D tuner (one of the most sensitive FM sets ever made) in conjunction with Scott's multiplex adapter, provides the household with music most of every day and particularly on occasions such as parties, dinners, etc. On the Humphrey roof it an eight-element yagi antenna, mute testimony to his interest in long distance FM reception...