Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Eisenhower-Nixon Administration has failed us for the past 7½ years. We are now behind Russia in the space race, ballistic missile production and development, education, military manpower, and speed of economic growth. Developments in Cuba, Japan, Latin America and the Middle East have shocked us. We cannot afford to continue this dangerous drift. To lead us in the next four years we must have new faces in the White House-those of Kennedy and Johnson...
When Echo first took to space on Aug. 12, it was as round and polished as a giant ball bearing, its aluminized Mylar film kept tightly inflated by 20 Ibs. of vaporized anthraquinone, a normally solid organic chemical. When its 100-ft. sphere moved on its orbit 1,000 miles away from the surface of the earth, it covered about one-tenth the angle of the planet Venus at 40 million miles, but it did not show as a disk even in a powerful telescope. The sun reflecting on its spherical surface showed as a mathematical point, as stars...
...space is a tough neighborhood for frail balloons. Microscopic meteorites punctured Echo's skin, allowing the gas inside to seep out. Sunlight exerted a slight but persistent pressure. Gradually Echo lost its regular shape; flat places and wrinkles appeared on its shiny surface. "She's prune-faced already," says Richard Slater of G. T. Schjeldahl, Northfield, Minn., the company that made the balloon. When Echo turns deliberately about once in eight to ten minutes, flat places sometimes act as mirrors, making the sun's reflection momentarily brighter. Wrinkled places dim the reflection. The radio waves that...
Echo is visible over much of Russia, and is the most conspicuous space vehicle launched so far. But the Soviet press and radio have made no mention of it. Unless a Soviet citizen follows foreign broadcasts, he does not know what to make of the bright star that creeps repeatedly across the night...
...better. It is more reliable, sturdier, and only a fraction of the tube's size. Today a full third of Bell Labs' scientists are working on the transistor and the whole new family of "solid state" electronic devices it has spawned. The transistor not only made space exploration possible; it also ushered in the new technique of miniaturization, thus made hundreds of new products possible...