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...precious data come from a 440-lb. satellite observatory launched last week from Cape Canaveral into an orbit averaging 355 miles high. The satellite, called OSO (for Orbiting Solar Observatory), is a gadget-lovers' dream, the most complex object launched into space so far. Yet at last report it was working perfectly...
Babies & Memorials. Glenn's modesty, his cool performances, his dignity, his witticisms, his simplicity-all caught the national imagination. Newborn babies were named for Glenn in dozens of U.S. cities (one unfortunate boy in Ogden, Utah, was christened "Orbit"). Senator Alexander Wiley proposed a memorial to Glenn and his fellow astronauts in Washington, and Florida's George Smathers suggested another on Cape Canaveral. In Utah a move was under way to add another n to the half-completed Glen Canyon Dam. Glenn's space capsule, Friendship 7, was consigned to the Smithsonian Institution, to rest in hallowed...
When Alexander Wiley asked him about his "thoughts on your faith," Glenn might easily have faltered, or given an embarrassed or fatuous reply, but his forthright answer won an ovation from the audience. "I can't say that while in orbit you sit there and pray," he said. "It's a very busy time . . . My religion is not a fire-engine type of religion-not one to be called on in emergency and then put God back in the woodwork. My peace has been made with my maker for a number of years, so I had no particular...
Shares In Orbit. Mercury's success has sent McDonnell's shares scooting from 1961's low of 22½ to last week's 48. James McDonnell, who controls his company with 27% of its stock (worth $44 million), runs a one-man show. But he prides himself on good relations with "the team," boasts that he has never laid off an executive, and even gives his workers a paid holiday on United Nations...
...they say, must mean that the meteor came from a place where life once existed. Most plausible spot: Planet No. 5, which some scientists believe revolved several billion years ago between Mars and Jupiter and later disintegrated to form the swarms of asteroids that now occupy the No. 5 orbit...