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1959 Tomorrowland Adventure Walt Disney Book HC Man and Weather Satellites For Sale
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1959 Tomorrowland Adventure Walt Disney Book HC Man and Weather Satellites:
$120.00
Excellent condition or better.
Man and Weather Satellites There is a saying that "everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it." We do not know whether Mark Twain was the first to say this, as some suppose, but we do know that scientists are doing things about the weather, espe- cially to help predict it. One important thing in this respect was done on February 17, 1959, when, at 10:55 A.M., East- ern Standard Time, a Vanguard rocket took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida to place the first weather satellite into an orbit around the earth. The satellite, forerunner of larger and more complicated devices to come, weighs 21% pounds and is a sphere 20 inches in diameter. The orbit which it assumed is large. The point of the orbit closest to the ground, called the perigee, is 347 miles distant, the point farthest from the ground, called the apogee, is 2,065 miles away. The Vanguard weather satellite should stay in this orbit for at least two centuries, if future space ships do not remove it as a menace to space navi- gation. The useful life of the Vanguard satellite was only about one week. While its batteries were still active, the satellite told scientists on the ground whether the places it passed over had cloudy skies. -The weather satellite atop the Vanguard rocket 3 ----------- 2 ----------- Walt Disney MAN AND WEATHER SATELLITES A Tomorrowland Adventure ADAPTED FOR SCHOOL USE BY WILLY LEY ILLUSTRATED WITH COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND PRODUCTION ART DRAWINGS BY NINO CARBE THE L. W. SINGER COMPANY, INC. SYRACUSE, NEW YORK DISTRIBUTED IN CANADA BY J. M. DENT & SONS (CANADA), LIMITED COPYRIGHT 1959 BY WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS. DESIGNED AND PRODUCED BY ARTISTS AND WRITERS PRESS, INC. PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. BY WESTERN PRINTING AND LITHOGRAPHING COMPANY.
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