Word: space
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cuts in NASA funds. But in fact Congress trimmed NASA funds in the current fiscal year by less than 6%-from $530 million to $500 million-and Glennan helped bring on that cut himself when he argued at a congressional hearing that extra funds could not speed up U.S. space progress...
...only see what no longer exists, or rather what existed 25,000 years ago, when the radio waves they observe left the galaxy's center. But in cosmological time, 25,000 years is only the blink of an eye, and astronomers, faced with the huge intervals of space, use light-years as simple measures of distance...
...streaming clouds Rougoor and Oort found a ring of hydrogen about 300 light-years wide and encircling the galaxy's center at a distance of 1,600 lightyears. It appears to be revolving at a good clip (600,000 m.p.h.). Inside it is a band of almost empty space; then comes a rotating disk of hydrogen whose density increases toward the center. Neither ring nor disk appears to be moving outward. They are like the solid part of a fireworks pinwheel, which spins rapidly and throws off spirals of sparks...
...Allen radiation. Addressing an audience of scientists and Iowa students, Academician Leonid I. Sedov gave a detailed report on the trajectories of Soviet moon shots. In response to questioning, he said that the Russians also had rocket failures. He denied rumors that they have put a man in space and said that they will not even try until three conditions exist: that the man will be safe in space, will return to earth safely, and will be able to do tasks beyond the capability of instruments...
Word from the Moon. The Russians seemed eager to be cooperative and, except when military matters were touched on, surprisingly willing to describe Soviet discoveries in space rocketry. At a Washington meeting of the American Rocket Society, Academician Anatoly A. Blagonravov told in precise scientific terms how Lunik III was oriented by small gas jets to take its famous pictures of the far side of the moon (TIME, Nov. 9). Physicist Valerian I. Krasovsky gave a summary of scientific information that Soviet space shots have gathered so far. The Russians also showed a 25-minute movie of the behavior...