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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scope of the post-Apollo manned space program remained hazy, and a great deal depends on the safe and successful outcome of Apollo 11. But well before the moon flight was launched, NASA was casting eyes on targets far beyond the moon. The most inviting: the earth's close, and probably most hospitable, planetary neighbor. Given the same energy and dedication that took them to the moon, says Wernher von Braun, Americans could land on Mars as early...
...same time, NASA will attempt increasingly complex unmanned probes. Two unmanned Mariner spacecraft will soon pass within 2,000 miles of Mars and radio back enough close-up photographs to map about 20% of the Martian surface. In 1973, other Martian orbiters will eject two instrument-packed capsules for soft landings on Mars...
Mars, however, is only one of NASA's planetary targets-and a relatively close one at that. In 1972, the space agency will send two Pioneer spacecraft on a flyby of Jupiter, largest planet in the solar system. A year later, another Mariner will try the first multiple-planet probe. After a sweep of Venus, it will use the Venusian gravity to boost itself on toward Mercury, the sun's closest and smallest satellite. In the late 1970s, the so-called "outer planets" will be so favorably aligned that a spacecraft passing Jupiter could use its gravity...
...Pakistan, of course, will deliver its side of the same arguments that Nixon will hear in New Delhi. Nixon, however, probably will have more points of contention to discuss with President Yahya Khan than with Mrs. Gandhi. Pakistan has drawn increasingly close to China in recent years, while doing nothing to discourage overtures from Moscow. Since Pakistan is technically a military ally of the U.S. under the CENTO and SEATO treaties, Nixon has every right to inquire about this trend. Yahya Khan will explain that China has taken Pakistan's side in the fight with India; as for Russia...
...odds have all along been with the Prince. Franco's relations with Don Juan are cool, the Caudillo has never forgiven the Pretender for a 1945 statement that disapproved of Franco's policies. Don Juan has been considerably less critical since then, but has kept in close touch with opposition circles in Spain from his court-in-exile at the Villa Giralda in the Portuguese coastal resort of Estoril. Many Spaniards consider Don Juan a moderate, even a liberal, who as constitutional monarch would probably not. go along with many authoritarian practices of the Franco...