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Backbone of Stanford's linear accelerator (called SLAC) is a 10,000-ft.-long, 4-in.-diameter copper tube housed in a concrete tunnel and buried 25 ft. underground to protect scientists and any bystanders from its fierce radiation. At one end, an electron beam is generated in much...
"Oh, gosh, we're just snowed," exulted J.P.L. Project Scientist Leonard Jaffe. "We would have been happy if we had gotten just one picture." In one batch of shots, scientists found some that further emphasized Surveyor's charmed life. About 300 yds. from the craft, the camera picked...
Pictures by Earthlight. One after another, the pictures showed that Surveyor was standing on a broad, relatively level plain littered with pebbles as small as one-eighth of an inch in diameter and rocks that were more than a foot across. The terrain was pocked by an occasional small crater...
More Lift, Less Drag. The nuclear airship's size-177 ft. longer and 37 ft. greater in diameter than the Hindenburg-would give it an added advantage over even the largest of the old dirigibles, which Morse says were "just at the threshold of efficient performance." Doubling the length...
Was Patient DeRudder's condition so grave as to justify the admitted risk? It took Dr. DeBakey, with three assisting surgeons, until 10:14 to decide that the answer was yes. Swiftly Dr. DeBakey took one of the two plastic tubes attached to the pump device and stitched it...