Apr 15 1962
From The Space Library
U.S. Weather Bureau began daily international transmissions of cloud maps based on photos taken by TIROS IV. This was the first time that the actual cloud map was sent abroad by radio facsimile, although coded data had been sent previously.
In an article in Ekonomicheskya Gazeta, the economic newspaper of the Soviet Communist Party, Dr. Peter Kapitza, one of Russia's outstanding physicists, said that Soviet science had been hampered by attempts to judge the validity of scientific theories on the basis of Marxist dialectics. If Soviet scientists had listened to Marxist philosophers in the 1950's, he said, the Russian achievements in space would have been impossible.
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