ARNO CREELMAN'S DEEP THOUGHTS Gravity is a force that pulls objects like stars and planets together The bigger the mass the stronger the pull So why is our universe expanding with galaxies moving away from each other What goes up must come down
ARNO SLAPPED A pound of wet clay into the shape of a ball then plopped the ball onto his desk with a satisfying whump He peered at the open astronomy book beside his lump of clay to read the instructions once again Divide the clay into ten equal parts Okay-dokey Arno whispered He was being quiet so that he could hear his dad’s yellow-and-red Sony transistor radio It was 1961 The Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States was in full swing Over the past few years artificial satellites had been launched The Saturn I rocket meant to carry human beings into deep space was well under construction Soviet pilots had even flown into low Earth orbit as test trials Which country would be the first to safely land
