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Or, is that idea a relic of our primeval past, sort of like appendix and adenoids, parts that can be excised from the body of our belief system? The author argues for the primacy of the transcendent supernatural ontology by means of two books: the book of nature, and the book of transcendency the Bible , each containing its own portion of the evidence. The 'signet' of redemption is the number '7'; its appearance within chronology is deliberate, instructive, and compelling.

The 2nd bi-millennium, Abraham- to-Messiah, was also fulfilled exactly in redemptive time. The termination of our age is imminent and dependent upon the chronology of Israel, mankind's chronograph. Written in English — pages. Subjects Astronomy , Popular works , Atlases , Astronomia. Atlas of the universe , Cambridge University Press.

Libraries near you: WorldCat. Atlas of the universe , Rand McNally. Borrow Listen. Download for print-disabled. The atlas of the universe. The atlas of the universe , G. Edition Notes Col. M66 Initially, astronomers had to depend solely upon visi- ble light, so that they were rather in the position of a pianist trying to play a waltz on a piano which lacks all its notes except for a few in the middle octave.

Radio telescopes came first. The extremely cold and dry conditions are ideal for observations at submillimetre wavelengths. It has a 3. UKIRT proved to be so good that it can also be used for ordinary optical work, which was sheer bonus. The largest dish radio telescope in the world, it was completed in ; the dish is However, it is not steerable; though its equipment means that it can survey wide areas of the sky.

The latest upgrade was in ; the telescope was given a new galvanized steel surface and a more accurate pointing system. Each of the panes making up the surface was adjusted to make the whole surface follow the optimum parabolic shape to an accuracy of less than 2 mm; the frequency range of the telescope was quadrupled.

The telescope is frequently linked with telescopes abroad to obtain very high resolution observations. The sub-millimetre range of the electromagnetic spectrum extends from 1 millimetre down to 0.

The infra-red detectors have to be kept at a very low temperature, as otherwise the radiations from the sky would be swamped by those from the equipment. High altitude — the summit of Mauna Kea is over metres 14, feet — is essential, because infra-red radiations are strongly absorbed by water vapour in the air. Some ultra-violet studies can be carried out from ground level, but virtually all X-rays and most of the gamma rays are blocked by layers in the upper atmos- phere, so that we have to depend upon artificial satellites and space probes.

But they have added immea- surably to our knowledge of the universe. Just as an optical collects light, so a radio telescope collects and focuses radio waves; the name is somewhat misleading, because a radio telescope is really more in the nature of an aerial. It does not produce an optical- type picture, and one certainly cannot look through it; the usual end product is a trace on a graph. Other large dishes have been built in recent times; the largest of all, at Arecibo in Puerto Rico, is set in a natural hollow in the ground, so that it cannot be steered in the same way as the Lovell telescope or the metre foot instrument at Parkes in New South Wales.

Not all radio telescopes are the dish type, and some of them look like collections of poles, but all have the same basic function. Its 27 antennae can be arranged into four different Y-shaped configurations. Each antenna is 25 m 82 feet in diameter, but when the signals are combined electronically it functions as one giant dish, with the resolution of an antenna 36 km 22 miles across. These days, gamma-ray, X-ray and ultra-violet radiation from hotter bodies and infra-red radiation and radio waves from cooler are also studied.

As long ago as the second century AD a Greek satirist, Lucian of Samosata, wrote a story in which a party of sailors passing through the Strait of Gibraltar were caught up in a vast waterspout and hurled on to the Moon. In Jules Verne published his classic novel in which the travellers were put inside a projectile and fired moonward from the barrel of a powerful gun. This would be rather uncomfortable for the intrepid crew members, quite apart from the fact that it would be a one-way journey only though Verne cleverly avoided this difficulty in his book, which is well worth reading even today.

The first truly scientific ideas about spaceflight were due to a Russian, Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovskii, whose first paper appeared in — in an obscure journal, so that it passed almost unnoticed. Tsiolkovskii knew that ordinary flying machines cannot function in airless space, but rockets can do so, because they depend upon what Isaac Newton called the principle of reaction: every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

It consists of a hollow tube filled with gunpowder. As long as the gas streams out, the rocket will continue to fly. This is all very well, but — as Tsiolkovskii realized — solid fuels are weak and unreliable. Instead, he planned a liquid-fuel rocket motor. Two liquids for example, petrol and liquid oxygen are forced by pumps into a combus- tion chamber; they react together, producing hot gas which is sent out of the exhaust and makes the rocket fly.

Tsiolkovskii also suggested using a compound launcher made up of two separate rockets joined together. Initially the lower stage does all the work; when it has used up its propellant it breaks away, leaving the upper stage to continue the journey by using its own motors. In effect, the upper stage has been given a running start. Robert Hutchings Goddard, the American rocket engineer, built and flew the first liquid-propellant rocket in His work was entirely independent of that of Tsiolkovskii.

The result was the V2, used to bombard England in the last stages of the war —5. But by then the Russians had already ushered in the Space Age. On 4 October they sent up the first of all man-made moons, Sputnik 1, which carried little on board apart from a radio transmitter, but which marked the beginning of a new era. Remarkable progress has been made since Artificial satellites and space stations have been put into orbit; men have reached the Moon; unmanned probes have been sent past all the planets apart from Pluto, and controlled landings have been made on the surfaces of Mars, Venus and a small asteroid, Eros.

Yet there are still people who question the value of space research. They forget — or choose to ignore — the very real benefits to meteorology, physics, chemistry, medical research and many other branches of science, quite apart from the prac- tical value of modern communications satellites. Moreover, space research is truly international. The gas produced is sent out from the exhaust; and as long as gas continues to stream out, so the rocket will continue to fly.

It does not depend upon having atmosphere around it, and is at its best in outer space, where there is no air-resistance. Ulysses, the spacecraft designed to survey the poles of the Sun, was launched from Cape Canaveral on 6 October ; the probe itself was made in Europe.

The photograph here shows the smoke trail left by the departing spacecraft. This photograph was taken from Baikonur, the Russian equivalent of Cape Canaveral. It shows a Progress unmanned rocket just before launch; it was sent as a supply vehicle to the orbiting Mir space station.

This was the fate of the first satellite, Sputnik 1, which decayed dur- ing the first week of January However, many other satellites will never come down — for example Telstar, the first communications vehicle, which was launched in and is presumably still orbiting, silent and unseen, at an altitude of up to kilometres miles.

Communications satellites are invaluable in the modern world. Without them, there could be no direct television links between the continents.

Purely scientific satellites are of many kinds, and are used for many differ- ent programmes; thus the International Ultra-violet Explorer IUE has surveyed the entire sky at ultra-violet wavelengths and operated until , while the Infra-Red Astronomical Satellite IRAS carried out a full infra-red survey during There are X-ray satellites, cosmic-ray vehicles and long-wavelength vehicles, but there are also many satellites designed for military purposes — some- thing which true scientists profoundly regret.

To leave the Earth permanently a probe must reach the escape velocity of Obviously the first target had to be the Moon, because it is so close, and the first successful attempts were made by the Russians in During the s controlled landings were made by both Russian and American vehicles, and the United States Orbiters circled the Moon, sending back detailed photographs of the entire surface and paving the way for the manned landings in Contacting the planets is much more of a problem, because of the increased distances involved and because the planets do not stay conveniently close to us.

The first successful interplanetary vehicle was Mariner 2, which bypassed Venus in ; three years later Mariner 4 sent back the first close-range photographs of Mars. Launched on 4 October , by the Russians; this was the first artificial satellite, and marked the opening of the Space Age. It orbited the Earth until January , when it burned up. This was the first space probe to pass by the Moon.

It was launched by the Russians on 2 January , and bypassed the Moon at a range of km miles on 4 January. Polar orbiting satellites 3 require less powerful rockets than those in geostationary orbits 4 , which need to be much higher at 36, km 22, miles above the Earth. Next came the missions to the outer plan- ets, first with Pioneers 10 and 11, and then with the two Voyagers.

Pride of place must go to Voyager 2, which was launched in and bypassed all four giants — Jupiter , Saturn , Uranus and finally Neptune This was possible because the planets were strung out in a curve, so that the gravity of one could be used to send Voyager on to a rendezvous with its next target.

This situation will not recur for well over a century, so it came just at the right moment. The Voyagers and the Pioneers will never return; they are leaving the Solar System for ever, and once we lose contact with them we will never know their fate. In case any alien civilization finds them, they carry pictures and identification tapes, though one has to admit that the chances of their being found do not seem to be very high. By all the planets had been surveyed, apart from Pluto, as well as numbers of asteroids.

Finance is always a problem, and several very inter- esting and important missions have had to be postponed or cancelled, but a great deal has been learned, and we now know more about our neighbour worlds than would have seemed possible in October , when the Space Age began so suddenly.

Aboard for the second Space Shuttle mission of are a crew of five and the Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science 2 ATLAS 2 , which was to study the energy output from the Sun and the chemical composition of the Earth's middle atmosphere. The main instruments were a CCD imaging spectrometer and high-resolution camera; it was far more sensitive than any previous X-ray satellite. The International Ultra-violet Explorer, launched on 26 January , operated until , though its planned life expectancy was only three years!

It has carried out a full survey of the sky at ultra-violet wavelengths, and has actually provided material for more research papers than any other satellite.

His total flight time was no more than 1 hour 40 minutes, but it was of immense significance, because it showed that true spaceflight could be achieved. Up to that time nobody was sure about the effects of weightlessness, or zero gravity. Lie a coin on top of a book, and drop both to the floor; during the descent the coin will not press on the book — with reference to the book, it has become weightless.

In fact, zero gravity did not prove to be uncomfortable. The stage was set for further flights, and these were not long delayed. The Russians had taken the lead, but the Americans soon followed, with their Mercury programme. The first American to orbit the Earth was John Glenn, on 20 February ; his flight lasted for 4 hours 55 minutes 23 seconds.

His capsule, Friendship 7, was tiny and decid- edly cramped. In October Glenn made his second spaceflight, in the Shuttle Discovery; the contrast between the Discovery and Friendship 7 is indeed striking! At the age of 77 Glenn was much the oldest of all astronauts. By then there had been many space missions, with elaborate, multi-crewed spacecraft; there had been men and women astronauts from many countries, though the vehicles used were exclusively Russian or American. Inevitably there have been casualties.

Two Space Shuttles have been lost; in Challenger exploded shortly after launch, and on 1 February Columbia broke up during re-entry into the atmosphere. Yet, all in all, progress has been amazingly rapid. The maximum altitude was km miles , and the flight time 1h 48m. Tragically, Gagarin later lost his life in an ordinary aircraft accident. The original seven astronauts chosen for the Mercury programme were: front row, left to right Walter M. Schirra, Jr, Donald K.

Slayton, John H. Shepard, Jr, Virgil I. Grissom and L. Gordon Cooper. It is worth noting that there could have been a meeting between Wright, Gagarin and Armstrong. Their lives overlapped, and I have had the honour of knowing all three! At the same time, Vostok 5 was in orbit piloted by Valery Bykovsky. During her spaceflight she carried out an extensive research programme, and has since been active in the educational and administrative field.

I took this photograph of her in Major Edward White remained outside Gemini 4 for 21 minutes on 3 June Tragically White later lost his life in a capsule fire on the ground. On 20 February the first manned orbital flight was launched, carrying John Glenn into orbit. Space Stations Space stations date back a long way — in fiction, but only in modern times have they become fact.

One early post- war design was due to Wernher von Braun, who planned a Space Wheel; the crew would live in the rim, and rotation of the wheel would simulate gravity for the astronauts. The Von Braun Wheel never progressed beyond the plan- ning stage; it would certainly have been graceful. The first real space station was the US Skylab, which was manned by three successive crews in —4, and was very successful; a great deal of work was carried out.

It remained in orbit until 11 July , when it re-entered the atmosphere and broke up, showering fragments widely over Australia — fortunately without causing any damage or casualties.

The first true space station; during —4 it was manned by three successive crews. It continued in orbit until 11 July , when it broke up in the atmosphere. The core module, known as the base block, was launched on 20 February Modules were added to the core in , , and During its lifetime, the space station hosted 28 long-term crews. As well as the space station, the picture shows a space telescope, a space taxi, and a reusable shuttle vehicle.