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...would be consumed by the black hole, but most of it would be explosively blown away as extremely hot electrified gases. By letting these gases pass through a magnetic field created by a generator aboard the spacecraft, a powerful electric current could be induced in wires rigged outside the craft...
Astronauts will not return to space until the joint U.S.-Russian venture in 1975. But last week unmanned robot craft were ranging far and wide across the solar system on missions of planetary exploration. NASA announced that Pioneer 11, already three-quarters of the way to Jupiter, will proceed to Saturn and provide the first close-up look at the ringed planet. From Mars, an orbiting Soviet spacecraft sent back new, detailed views of the Martian surface. At week's end, fresh from its reconnaissance of cloud-shrouded Venus, Mariner 10, now nearing Mercury, began transmitting its first pictures...
...space agency's approval of a mission to Saturn will require a course change that will send the craft whipping by Jupiter at a distance of only 26,000 miles. Accelerated by Jovian gravity, Pioneer 11 will then be flung across the solar system for a rendezvous with Saturn in September 1979. The new flight plan was decided upon only after careful analysis of Pioneer 10's performance last December; it came within 81,000 miles of Jupiter's cloudtops and was subjected to an intense bombardment of charged particles from Jupiter's radiation belts. Pioneer...
Both the narrator and his character Fogel are isolated shards laboring under the illusion that they are wholly formed vessels. But what could well have been an academic exercise is redeemed by compassion and craft. It makes for a pathetic but telling tale...
...wide-bodied jetliner had arrived lightly loaded at Paris' Orly Airport from Istanbul, en route to London. When it departed, Flight 905 was nearly full, largely because of a British Airways strike, which caused 216 additional passengers to be put on the ill-fated craft. When the plane took off for the 60-minute flight to Britain's Heathrow Airport, the manifest listed some 200 Britons, 48 Japanese, 42 Turks, a sprinkling of other nationalities and 22 Americans, including Wayne Wilcox, cultural attache of the U.S. embassy in London, his wife and the two eldest of their four...