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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Faint Signals. Russian scientists had redesigned the Venera spacecraft to withstand pressures of 150 earth atmospheres and temperatures in excess of 1000° F. They also redesigned their parachute (probably made of steel mesh) to enable Venera to descend more rapidly to the surface. To allow for the higher landing velocity, they incorporated a shock-absorbing landing gear...
...highlands. There they may be able to recover rocks dating back to the birth of the moon, more than 4.5 billion years ago. The lunar landing maneuvers will differ in important details from the two previous successful manned lunar expeditions. For one thing, the command ship Kitty Hawk will descend to within 11.5 miles of the moon's surface before releasing the lunar module. Cutting down on the customary 67-mile altitude will conserve some of the lander's limited fuel reserves for the riskier touchdown on the rugged terrain...
...load up their new collapsible two-wheeled lunar handcart with cameras, hand tools, shovel and sampling cores. Then they will begin their major geological traverse: a rock-collecting hike up the side of 400-ft.-high Cone Crater, nearly a mile away. Although the two lunar mountaineers will not descend into the crater itself, they will conduct a kind of rock festival on its rim: they will chip stone from large boulders and roll some smaller boulders down the crater's side (the tracks will give earthbound scientists an indication of the mechanical characteristics of lunar soil...
...through it Klee reached a pitch of self-awareness such as few modern artists have achieved. "What my art probably lacks," he wrote, "is a kind of passionate humanity. I don't love animals and every sort of creature with an earthly warmth. I don't descend to them or raise them to myself. Do I radiate warmth? Coolness? There is no talk of such things when you have got beyond white heat. There is no sensuous relationship, not even the noblest, between myself and the many...
...customers paid little attention to the aesthetic quality of models. Now a Playmate standard has begun to assert itself in exotic literature. Most of the customers are men, with the big rush arriving just after business hours when homeward-bound commuters and tourists beginning a night on the town descend on the area. Those women who do come in are easily placed in one of two categories by the proprietors: European women peruse the shelves with little self-consciousness; American women giggle and laugh...