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...design won a lot of backing in Congress and the space community after the Columbia disaster grounded the entire shuttle fleet. The President's Mars-and-moon plan calls for the development of what is being called a crew exploration vehicle, and a souped-up version of the Boeing craft might do that job nicely...
...rover exit down a rear ramp. Even if that one proves to be blocked too, it would still be possible to drive over the bags, though that is a risky move since the fabric may have stiffened in the extreme Martian cold and could damage or interfere with the craft's solar panels. In either event, no one at J.P.L. is remotely calling these problems mission-enders--though no one expects the rover to be able to move off the lander much before the end of this week. "We have some very valuable assets on Mars," says J.P.L. director Charles...
Perhaps the most interesting spot on the surface is one the spacecraft created. As the bubble-wrapped craft bounced to a landing, it scuffed the ground at a point just south of where the rover now rests. The loose red soil it cleared away has revealed a dark patch of what resembles mud--though that's impossible on the entirely waterless floor of Gusev...
That's something Giamatti, 36, never does. He's shy and literally self-effacing as an actor but fiercely committed to his craft. Married with a young son, he's a bookish, family-oriented private-school and Yale graduate and the son of the late A. Bartlett Giamatti, once Yale's president and Major League Baseball's commissioner...
Last week, the first color photos of Mars, courtesy of the Spirit craft, caused great excitement among the scientific community and the public at large. The larger purpose of the mission is to search for signs of water on Mars, which could mean the planet supported life at one point. President Bush will announce later this week a plan to resume missions to the Moon and send humans to Mars within 20 years, with international help in this goal. Such a plan is likely to be tremendously expensive, and some argue that manned space missions are unnecessary with the level...