SHIP'S TIME AUTOMATIC; Liner United States Installs Zone Control Device
Date: 20 April 1952
Clocks on new superliner United States to be automatically regulated for various time zones
Robert Zubrin Birthday, Date of Birth
Robert Zubrin (; born April 9, 1952) is an American aerospace engineer, author, and advocate for human exploration of Mars. He is also an advocate for U.S. space superiority, writing that "in the 21st century, victory on land, sea or in the air will go to the power that controls space" and that "if we desire peace on Earth, we need to prepare for war in space."
He and his colleague at Martin Marietta, David Baker, were the driving force behind Mars Direct, a proposal in a 1990 research paper intended to produce significant reductions in the cost and complexity of such a mission. The key idea was to use the Martian atmosphere to produce oxygen, water, and rocket propellant for the surface stay and return journey. A modified version of the plan was subsequently adopted by NASA as their "design reference mission". He questions the delay and cost-to-benefit ratio of first establishing a base or outpost on an asteroid or another Apollo program-like return to the Moon, as neither would be able to provide all of its own oxygen, water, or energy; these resources are producible on Mars, and he expects people would be there thereafter.
Disappointed with the lack of interest from government in Mars exploration and after the success of his book The Case for Mars (1996), as well as leadership experience at the National Space Society, Zubrin established the Mars Society in 1998. This is an international organization advocating a human mission to Mars as a goal, by private funding if possible.
Read more...- Birthday, Date of Birth
- Saturday, April 19, 1952
- Place of Birth
- Ню Йорк
- Age
- 73
- Star Sign
- ♈
The April 19, 1952 was a Saturday under the star sign of ♈. It was the 109 day of the year. President of the United States was Harry S. Truman.
If you were born on this day, you are 73 years old. Your last birthday was on the Saturday, April 19, 2025, 148 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, April 19, 2026, in 216 days. You have lived for 26,811 days, or about 643,487 hours, or about 38,609,243 minutes, or about 2,316,554,580 seconds.
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19th of April 1952 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on April 19, 1952
RED NEWSPAPER ON TRIAL; Hong Kong Journal Charged With Sedition in Riot Reports
Date: 19 April 1952
Ta Kung Pao (newspaper) officials on trial for sedition, Kowloon riot; 2 other papers also charged
LA PAZ NEWSPAPER CLOSED BY THREATS; Government Declines to Act Against 'People in Arms' -- Capital Is Calm
Date: 19 April 1952
By EDWARD A. MORROWSpecial to THE NEW YORK TIMES
Edward MORROWSpecial
La Paz Razon stays closed after threats from armed civilians; Paz to discuss matter with Inter-Amer Press Assn repr J Dubois
Louisiana Editors Assail Truman
Date: 20 April 1952
Louisiana Press Assn scores statement
SEIZURE OF PRESS CALLED DOUBTFUL; White House Says Right Exists Only for Remote Crisis -- Law Permits Radio Shutdown
Date: 19 April 1952
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES
TRUMAN DISPUTED BY EDITORS' HEAD; Constitution Bars Press, Radio Seizure, Convention Is Told -- Group Tables Rebuke
Date: 20 April 1952
A F Jones challenges Truman stand on seizure powers; says ct will decide issue, ASNE conv