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...that has been projected on that screen in the past 24 hours. One recent morning report indicated that NORAD had spotted seven Soviet aircraft tracks over Siberia, 17 unidentified planes above North America (each was checked as friendly within five minutes), 121 satellites and pieces of satellite debris in orbit around the earth, and 20 Russian trawlers cruising off Newfoundland's Grand Banks and the Aleutians...
...Soviet's annual New Year's bash in the Kremlin, convivial Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, 27, buttonholed the ornament of the U.S. embassy, vivacious Jane Thompson, 41, and proposed, "How would you like to go into orbit with me?" Responded the lissome wife of Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson: "Why, I'd be frightened to death. Besides," she added smoothly, "I'm not in training...
...Canaveral and flew its long-range missiles over the ocean. The Russians stuck to the land, seem to have found no special difficulty in bringing their spacecraft down on solid ground. Eventually, argues the Holloman Bulletin, the U.S. will have to do the same. Large manned spaceships returning from orbit or the moon are far too valuable to drop into the unpredictable ocean. If they head for a land spaceport, they can be guided by radar stations from positions that are stationary and precisely located. Their pilots will be able to guide on well-known landmarks...
Banana Flavor. The plan was to allow Enos to orbit the earth three times before parachuting the capsule into the Atlantic. But in case of trouble, ships and planes had been deployed in eight widely separated landing places. As the capsule soared over Africa for the second time, everything was normal. While it was crossing the Indian Ocean, Enos was doing minor tasks that earned him sips of water and ten small, banana-flavored pellets, which were delivered mechanically when he pushed the proper levers. But as the capsule approached Australia, the monitor station at Muchea on the west coast...
...failure was serious because the retrorockets that are fired to slow the capsule and bring it down from orbit cannot do their job unless they are pointed in the proper direction. One of the Soviet dog-carrying satellites came to grief for just this reason. Instead of curving the satellite to earth, its retrorockets shot it into a higher orbit...