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THE LEADER-POST, REGIN. | __Editor’s note: ‘The recent eclipse served to focus at- tention of Canadians on the enc! in a way which was ips even more drama- i fic a the exploits of Un- States and Russian } ae probes. Today when Soviet cos- monants and U. S, astron- auts draw world-wide atten- tion to space, the appeal ance of orbiting satellites or haphazardly wandering “space junk” is soon check- | ed out through highly effi- cient tracking stations. Fifty yeas ago, such was not the case. The...