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...their dear departed, a dog named Arthur. Jonathan Winters succeeds outrageously as the mastermind of Whispering Glades, who wants to "get those stiffs off my property" and transform his real estate into a haven for senior citizens. His brainstorm ("Resurrection-Now!"): disinter the cadavers and, beginning with a dead astronaut, fire them into eternal orbit...
Suddenly the signature of Old Astronaut John Glenn, 44, was showing up everywhere in Hamburg, Germany-on eggs, on a banana, on two Fräuleins' foreheads. In town with his wife Annie on a West German good-will tour, Glenn discovered that the daily Bild-Zeitung was juicing up the visit with a contest. WHO WILL GET THE MOST UNUSUAL GLENN AUTOGRAPH? the newspaper bannered, and all day John signed...
Commander Scott Carpenter is a man of extremes. He has orbited the earth three times as an astronaut, and last week he returned from living a record 30 days beneath the sea as an aquanaut. After surfacing from the Navy's Sealab II off the coast of Southern California, the versatile Carpenter made the inevitable comparison. "The sea" he said, "is a more hostile environment than space." He could also proudly report that the men of Sealab II stood up surprisingly well under the unusual stresses of the deep; they proved that man can live and work in safety...
Hope that a future astronaut might some day find life on Mars faded deeper than ever into science fiction when Mariner 4 sent its remarkable snapshots across 135 million miles of space. The bleak, pocked surface of the red planet looked dead indeed. Because they saw no signs of erosion, space specialists from Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratories, who had directed the Mariner voyage, concluded that Mars probably never had any significant amount of life-supporting water. Though they were not quite ready to deny the possibility of Martian life, the JPL men seemed all but certain that what...
...goodies as chocolate cake and fresh meat to supplement the aquanauts' stock of freeze-dried food. The men can watch commercial TV but prefer to peer out the portholes at the fish looking in at them. During the flight of Gemini 5, Aquanaut Carpenter even chatted directly with Astronaut Gordon Cooper. In case of emergency, the men could get power and fresh water from a tube linking them to shore, and they could surface in a 14-ft. capsule anchored outside the Sealab...