First Satellite Cost Under $200000 On Paper
The piece notes prior claims to space innovation by Russians and Edward Everett Hale's 1869 Brick Moon story. It recounts Harvard student inventors, the plan to launch via giant flywheels, the $197327 cost, and the satellite’s fictional voyage circling 5109 miles above Earth with purported practical and social effects.
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Sputnik
Edward Everett Hale
Thude
Atlantic Monthly
Hale
Nathan Pele
Edward Everett
Gettysburg
Abraham Lincoln
Whien
The
Atlante
Harvard
Ingek
Iilck
Hinle
Skowhegan
Maines
Moon
Stull Hamching
Beautification program plants trees and shrubs at La Tech
Louisiana Tech undertakes campus beautification by planting about 300 shade trees and ornamental shrubs this spring. The effort is led by the faculty campus beautification committee, building and grounds, and forestry departments with President R L Ropp assisting. Sites include areas near Kany Hall and dormitories along Highway 80.
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Louisiana Tech
Forestry Department of Tech
R. L. Ropp
Kany Hall
Adams, Dudley
Pearce
Jenkins and
McFarland
Jonesboro Youth Wins Navy Honors
Jonesboro youth Seaman Apprentice Twentiyth A Newton son of Mr and Mrs Guy P Newton 206 Hudson Avenue Jonesboro earned a Navy Honor Student Certificate after graduating from the Yeoman Class A School at San Diego February 20 1959 with an average of 87.48 the top scholastic mark in his class He previously graduated from Jonesboro Hedge High School and attended Northwestern State College in Natebloches The Yeoman Class A School is among nineteen training schools at the San Diego Naval Training Center reported by W C Choitz SHC USN Navy Recruiting Branch Monroe Office.
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Twentiyth A. Newton
1. S. Navy
Guy P. Newton
Hudson,Avenue
Jonesboro
Navy
Yeotman
U.S. Naval Training Station
San Diego
Calif
Newton
Jonesboro-Hedge
Northwestern State College
Natebloches
Yeoman
San Diego Naval Training Center
W. C. Choitz
SHC
USN
Monroe
On The Job With Your Red Cross
The Red Cross facilitated the release of an American helicopter crew and passengers held in East Germany after government impasse. Before their release the American Red Cross arranged for delivery of packages and milt on the prisons and served the Armed Forces in an unusual way.
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United States
East Germany
Red Cross
American
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