The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 98National Geographic Society, 1950 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 411
... telescope pointed at its target aren't perfect , so now and then it drifts off a little ; when it does , the guide star drifts off the cross hairs . We correct our aim by press- ing one of these electric buttons . That re- aligns the ...
... telescope pointed at its target aren't perfect , so now and then it drifts off a little ; when it does , the guide star drifts off the cross hairs . We correct our aim by press- ing one of these electric buttons . That re- aligns the ...
Page 413
... telescope swinging into position . He turned out the lights , and Humason's voice sounded almost unearthly as it came down over the " intercom " system from his invisible perch up in the blackness . " All set , Ben ? " " Ready here ...
... telescope swinging into position . He turned out the lights , and Humason's voice sounded almost unearthly as it came down over the " intercom " system from his invisible perch up in the blackness . " All set , Ben ? " " Ready here ...
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... telescope , even of the Sky Survey itself , one might say , began with a small boy rubbing the bottom of a broken bottle in a saucer of fine sand in an obscure Estonian island village in the Bal- tic Sea , some 60 years ago . With these ...
... telescope , even of the Sky Survey itself , one might say , began with a small boy rubbing the bottom of a broken bottle in a saucer of fine sand in an obscure Estonian island village in the Bal- tic Sea , some 60 years ago . With these ...
Contents
Copraship Voyage to Fijis Outlying Islands By Marjory C Thomas 121 | viii |
Down the Susquehanna by Canoe By Ralph Gray With 45 illustrations in color from | xvi |
Here Come the Marines By Frederick Simpich 647 | xxii |
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