When Ed McCauley was still a reasonably young officer, there were many commonplace things that hadn’t been done yet. Satellites circled the earth from west to east and across both poles and with other assorted orbits. There were artificial satellites in orbit even around the sun, and every so often somebody put up a new one for some new purpose. There’d been a landing on the moon—by robot—and a robot station there spasmodically reported temperatures and cosmic-ray frequency, and a surprising number of moonquakes.
When Ed McCauley was still a reasonably young officer, there were many commonplace things that hadn’t been done yet. Satellites circled the earth from west to east and across both poles and with other assorted orbits. There were artificial satellites in orbit even around the sun,
