Gemini to replace Mercury as NASA charts new space path
NASA prepares to retire Project Mercury with Major Leroy Gordon Cooper's day long orbital flight on April 2. The agency outlines Project Gemini as the next giant step toward the Moon featuring two man capsules, a paraglider landing system, and extended missions up to two weeks. Veterans like Gus Grissom and Virgil G. Grissom contribute to development, with paraglider tests and X-20 Dyna-Soar ties shaping future flight plans.
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Leroy Gordon Cooper
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Gemini
Mercury
Air Force
Virgil J
Gus" Gassom
Grissom
NASA
Flight Research Center
Edwards
Calif
Milton
Thompson
Neil Armstrong
Berea
Bruce Peterson
Army
Emil Bluever
Theeight
Project Mercury
Project Gemini
U.S
Snior
Virgil L “Qus
Rogers Dry Lake
California
Milton O. Thompson
Edwards Air Force Base
Scientist wars on the snail at State University study
Biologist Benjamin Foote leads a two year NIH funded project at State University to assess Sciomyzidae flies as a biological control for snails that harbor parasitic flukes. The work builds on Cornell studies and notes some snails resist larval attack while others may be targeted.
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Agent State University
Benjamin Foote
National Institutes of Health
Foote
Cornell University
C. Berg
Hawaii
Kent
Cornel
Ohio State University
Ohio Wesleyan University
This Old Crab Ties To Spiders and Lobsters
A National Geographic note explains the horseshoe crab Lunulus polyphemus as a living fossil related to spiders and scorpions. Ancient trilobite kin, it has survived 300 million years, now inhabiting North American shores from Maine to Yucatan with a Delaware River mouth concentration. It measures about two feet, has an armored shell, six clawed legs, and a dagger tail while remaining largely harmless.
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Washington
America
National Geographic Society
North America
Maine
Yucatan
Delaware River
Asia
Polar contrasts: North Pole and South Pole compared
North Pole sits as an imaginary dot on the Arctic Ocean with ice and deep waters, while the South Pole marks a real station at Amundsen Scott on the Antarctic plateau. The article contrasts climate, humidity, temperatures, weather navigation, and human life including the 21 men wintering over at the South Pole station and the sparse wildlife differences between the two poles.
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Murray M. Moler
South Pole Station
Antarctica
Upi
Poles
North Pole
Arctic Ocean
South Pole
Antarctic
Polar Basin
Sie South Pole
Amundsen-Scott
Norway
Toard Amurmisen
England
Robert Jr
Polar
Aus Itralia
New York City
Arctic
Pole
North Magnetic Pole
Navy
U.S
McMurdo Sound
Rine
Howard Chapin
Overlook Dr
East Greenwich
L.I
Deep Freee
Davisville
Rb.1
Chapin
Ne Z
Monorail designer touts gyroscopically stabilized system
Kansas City reporter profiles Louis E. Swinney 33 who built a 21 foot 4000 pound monorail prototype on a three inch concrete filled rail. The gyroscope and pendulum keep balance, tests run at slow speed. Swinney aims for speeds up to 250 mph with future funding and patents.
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Kansas City
Kan
Louis E. Swinney
Lke
Voght Brothers
Swinney
United States
Seattle
Balloon to squint at Mars in east Texas
Balloons carrying instruments will rise from Palestine Texas to study Mars with a 50 foot plastic balloon carrying weather and imaging gear. Stratoscope II, under Princeton's Rob ert Danielson, aims for clear images of Mars from 9000 feet during nighttime flights, backed by NSF and ONR.
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Palestine
Tex
Texas
Mars
Robert Danieleon
Princeton University
Inch
Earth
Ua Hadioon
Alan Wissinger
Ward
National Science Foundation
Office of Naval Research
Wrx
National Aeromautics and Spaces Administration
Danielson
World of science pierces Air Force needs with new goggles
Nuclear bun goggles protect eyes from extreme nuclear fireball glare. Lantrand water vehicles debut capable of transporting cargo or troops nearly anywhere on earth. Cargo carrier speeds over 35 mph on water. troop carrier overrun barriers like swamp mud and deep snow. water speed and land speed listed as mph values.
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Air Force
Lantrand
Crimea described as Florida on the Black Sea by NatGeo
The National Geographic Society portrays the Crimean coast as subtropical and sunlit, likening it to Florida on the Black Sea. It notes hot dry summers and mild winters, beaches with water sports, and development of hotels and touristic culture along with historic ties from Phoenicians to Catherine the Great.
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Washington
Crimea
Riviera
Russia
Florida - On - the - Black Sea
National Geographic Society
Holywood
Yalta
Crimean
Ivan III
Nicholas
Liyadiya
Dominique Larrey the French Army Chief Surgeon of Napoleonic Era
Dominique Larrey born 1766 in southern France rose to chief surgeon of the French Army from 1797 to 1815. He pioneered rapid field ambulances and speed in surgery, reducing battlefield deaths, and described trench foot and conjunctivitis. He served in Egypt Italy Germany and Russia, fought at Waterloo, was later surgeon of Louis XVIII, and died 1842 with his name on the Arc de Triomphe.
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Dominique Larrey
France
Waterloo
Aoe Bonaparte
Napoleon
Larrey
Speed
Bonaparte
St. Helena
Baron Larrey
Egypt
Italy
Germany
Russia
Louis XVIII
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