Word: orbitally
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...While playing with the Birmingham Repertory Company in the 1920s, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, now 68, gave Britain some of its finest theatrical hours, earned the especial esteem of the creator of many of his most challenging roles. Recalls Hardwicke in his memoirs, A Victorian in Orbit: "Probably the handsomest compliment ever paid me was delivered by Bernard Shaw. 'You are,' he said, 'my fifth favorite actor, the first four being the Marx Brothers.' " Knighted in 1934, Hardwicke well remembers the occasion. King George V could not quite catch the actor's name, finally gave...
...making a different step-by-step study of space. Last week the National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched from Cape Canaveral a 78-lb. satellite programed to go into an elongated orbit ranging from 120,000 miles at its apogee (highest point) to 94 miles at its perigee. On board were three magnetometers, including an extremely sensitive one to measure magnetic fields, and a special instrument to study protons shot out of the sun. This sort of information is vital for space flight to other parts of the solar system. The crews of low-orbit manned satellites will be protected...
...assumed, of course, that the first spaceman will be a Soviet astronaut riding a Soviet satellite. Most U.S. authorities tend to agree, admitting that the Soviet man-in-space program is well ahead of the U.S.'s. The Russians might well be able to put a man into orbit this week and bring him back in reasonably good condition. The five-ton satellites in which they have orbited dogs weigh about four times as much as the man-carrying cabins of U.S. Project Mercury...
...before they make their big move, the Russians are apparently trying to establish a good reliability record. So far they have launched four satellites capable, in size at least, of orbiting and landing a man. The first, launched last May, carried a man-sized dummy but did not bring it back to earth. Last August another satellite orbited two dogs and landed them alive and well. (A female, Strelka, has since had six puppies.) A December satellite carrying two dogs went into orbit, but the re-entry body burned up in the atmosphere. The fourth satellite, launched this month, carried...
...Project Mercury has, so far, no reliability record. Its man-carrying capsules have been lobbed in short arcs, one of them carrying the live chimp, Ham, but none has gone into orbit. Project Mercury apparently intends to send one of its astronauts on a short, Hamlike rocket ride in a month or so. This will be an achievement of sorts, risky for the astronaut, but it will not compare in difficulty with a real descent from an earth orbit...