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The article examines the impact of the growth of aviation industry in the U.S. It describes on the dawn of the commercial jet age where the U.S. skies are said to be busiest with planes and jets taking off and landing every minute at the 567 U.S. airports in which the airlines serve not counting the military planes. It mentions on the importance of the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) as the one responsible for the success in the air and safety for the people.

The article reports on the newest weapons of war being made in the U.S. as of May 1951. It highlights "guided missiles" which is the military phrase in every U.S. aircraft factory, every technical institute and every electronics laboratory. It offers information on guided missiles' source of power and their capability. They include surface-to-air missiles, air-to-air missiles, air-to-ground missiles, and surface-to-surface missiles.

The article reports on the space travel of American astronauts Michael Collins and John Young aboard the Gemini 10. It cites the fuel shortage reported by Gemini 10's pilot Collins to the Agena 10 after 100 minutes from their launch. It also relates the anomalies and problems encountered by the two astronauts during their travels which include their exposure to radiation. It mentions that Young and Collins were welcomed with band music on their comeback.

The article reports on the successful moon landing of the U.S. Spacecraft, Surveyor I, which was under the control of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory control center in Pasadena, California. It discusses the implication of design and pre-launch perfect calculation by the scientist in the moon landing mission of Surveyor I. The article narrates the Surveyor I's travel towards the moon and its soft landing touchdown proves that U.S. is in position to pursuit on the Apollo's Lunar Excursion Module.

The article reports on the efforts of scientist in the U.S. rising to the challenge regarding physicist Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. It states that Einstein's theory explains gravity and the behavior of the universe on the grounds of relative motion. It mentions that Harvard University physicists have measured the minute frequency change taking place in gamma rays which upheld the gravity-caused shifts predicted by Einstein.

The article reports on the theory of Canadian geophysicist Anthony Barringer on the crash landing of Russia's Luna 7 in moon. At a symposium on remote sensing in Huntsville, Alabama in November 1965, he theorized that the space ships' radar may have failed to ascertain a top porous layer of the moon's crust, causing it to crash on its way to the hard lunar rock below. He ends that Russian radar entered the moon's top layer, reflected back from the bedrock below, and gave the wrong altitude.

The article reports that Robert Watson-Watt, the Scottish-born inventor of radar, received 50,000 British pounds from the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors in January 1952. Other British scientists who contributed to the development of radar shared 37,950 pounds. The article also mentions the reward received by scientist Frank Whittle for his jet engine invention.

The article mentions the anniversary of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which has been in business for 100 years.

The article discusses the plans of novelist and physicist Charles Percy Snow concerning the need of the government to promote science in Great Britain. He mentions that there are battles in the country during wartime that is never known such as the feud between Henry Tizard and science adviser F. A. Lindemann. Snow also emphasized the contribution of science to society in order to minimize political intuition.

The article offers information on the anti-ballistic-missile system (ABM) called Safeguard proposed by U.S. President Richard Nixon and defense secretary Melvin Laird. Accordingly, the ABM is designed primarily to protect and defend the U.S. from offensive surprise missile attack. However, the importance and affordability of Safeguard has earned mixed reactions from notable people including professor Albert Wohlstetter , physicist Hans Bethe , and scientific adviser Jerome Wiesner.

The article focuses on the investigation by the U.S. government concerning unidentified flying objects(UFO) sightings and incidents in the country. The Air Force sponsored the investigation and was conducted by a group of University of Colorado scientists led by physicist Edward Condon. As approved by the National Academy of Sciences, the findings have demolished the notion that the earth has been visited by creatures from other planets.

The article reports on the success of radar astronomers Richard M. Goldstein and Shalhav Zohar of Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the U.S. to map the planet Venus. It states that the astronomers have used 17 radar probes along with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) dish antenna, to generate the map which showed three blotches of extremely rough terrain in the planet. Furthermore, the findings of Goldstein and Zohar were later expanded by other scientists.

The article discusses the flight of the U.S. Surveyor 6 to the moon in November 1967. It notes that it is probably the greatest technological achievement in the first ten years of the space era. It says that it has led to man's first in-depth knowledge of the chemical makeup and consistency of the moon soil. It relates that before it became a success, a congressional subcommittee in 1965 regarded it as one of the most poorly made National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) projects.

The article focuses on the automatic rendezvous, docking, and separation of Russia's Cosmos 186 and Cosmos 188. It says that Cosmos 186 was probably launched from the Tyuratam Cosmodrome on October 27, 1967 and 188 was launched after three days. Russian scientists said that after 188's launch, computers aboard 186 started the automatic process of searching and linking up with 188. It also states that after docking, the two spacecrafts formed a single entity and did scientific tasks together.

The article focuses on the proposed solution of Russian scientists to control hail by firing antiaircraft shells into hail-producing clouds. It states that radar will be used to detect the cloud as soon as it starts to develop hailstones and iodides will be delivered to it within three minutes. It highlights that a 1965 trial resulted to 3.1% decrease in crop loss from hail in protected areas.

The article offers information on high-frequency radio waves or other known as the radio waves. It conveys television signals through the skies and link long-distance telephone systems and bounce off high-flying aircraft. It mentions the current and future capability of microwave technology and its applications as considered by 215 scientists who met at Stanford University. These can be used for heating, killing of microorganisms and for transmitting power as it generates current.

The article features the new forecasting system by the Canadian scientists to enable pilots to detour around flocks of birds. It states that Canada's Associate Committee on Bird Hazards to Aircraft in 1966 converted the Royal Canadian Air Force base into an electronic bird-watching station. It notes that the Polaroid-backed camera set up in front of a 50-mile-range radar scanner enabled experts to determine the approximate density and direction of bird concentrations.

The article focuses on the radar signature analysis (RSA), a technique used by the U.S. Air Force scientists in detecting foreign satellites. It says that the RSA enabled scientists to reconstruct the features of a satellite from a foreign nation, wherein radar pulse patterns were being examined. Meanwhile, through the refinement of the technique and equipment of RSA, analysts were able to make more advanced determinations regarding the intercontinental ballistic missiles and Soviet spacecraft.

The article reports that the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution of Massachusetts has introduced an airborne thermometer that can take the temperature of the sea which was developed by Henry Stommel and Donald Parson.

The article discusses the electronic bird watching in the U.S. in 1961. It states that the secrets of bird migration can be unraveled by electronics using the equipment called radar, which was used since World War II to track man-made flying machines. It also notes that Cambridge University's Dr. I.C.T. Nisbet and Dr. R. R. Richardson teamed up with Ornithologist W. H. Drury Jr. of the Massachusetts Audubon Society to study the aspects of radar bird watching.

The article reports on the experiment done by U.S. scientists on Kwajalein Island in Marshall Islands. It mentions that the scientists have prepared Nike Zeus, U.S. Army's anti-missile missile, for a test in the area. It notes that the scientists want to know if a reliable defense can stand against a surprise attack from intercontinental missiles. The scientists have employed Zeus Acquisition Radar (ZAR) in which its main objective is to detect incoming missile.

The article focuses on the efforts of Columbia scientists and Air Force's Air Research and Development Command for the development of the effectiveness of radar system through signal identification. It states that the innovation of Columbia, South Carolina is the fundamental problem of radar which is the process in amplifying the echo of electromagnetic wave. It mentions that the new signal technique is the omnirange digital radar (ORDIR) which multiplies the top range of radar system.

The article focuses on the efforts of the Soviet scientists to launched 10 missions to Venus which are expected to land instrumented packages on the planet's surface with the use of Venera 8. It says that based on the observations gathered by Venera, the chemical composition of the part of the Venus' surface is similar to the earth's. It adds that Venera had confirmed the earlier observations of the U.S. missions which indicate that the temperature on surface of the planet is nearly 880 degree.