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...exploration of the solar system, however, J.P.L.'s future has seemed cloudy lately. Almost immediately after the Reagan Administration took office, it canceled a joint effort with the Europeans to survey the sun's unexplored polar regions. The U.S. also dropped out of the race to intercept Halley's comet, slated to return in early 1986, leaving direct examination of this primordial chunk of matter to the Soviets, Europeans and Japanese. It placed on hold a plan to put a remote radar-mapping satellite in orbit around Venus, and has delayed until at least 1986 a complex...
...continued cooperation between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. (The U.S. provided radar maps of the Venus surface and helped the Soviets select the landing sites.) In 1985 another pair of Soviet probes will be dropped into the Venusian atmosphere while their mother ship hurtles on toward a rendezvous with Halley's comet. The U.S., meanwhile, is passing up the chance to intercept that rare heavenly visitor, and its plans for another visit to Venus remain in limbo...
...offense, the freshmen should play a particularly large role. One of the team's alltime leading scores, senior Norm Forbush, is back, and will be joined by Yardlings Rob Halley and Steve Bartenfelder. Halley adds quickness and Bartenfelder complements Halley's speed with his brute strength...
...probe to Halley's comet? No solar polar mission? No Venus probe, no Galileo project for Jupiter, no deep-space network? Will future generations look back to say, "The 20th century? Oh, that was when they smoked pot and built atom bombs." Or will they say, "The 20th century? That's when they opened up the universe...
...called the Inter national Solar Polar Mission (ISPM). Two unmanned spacecraft were to be sent in great, looping orbits over the unexplored poles of the sun. Last week J.P.L. officials gloomily conceded that they had finally given up hope of launching a once-in-a-lifetime mission to intercept Halley's comet. This primordial chunk of matter, which returns to the sun's vicinity in early 1986 after an absence of 76 years, could provide invaluable clues to understanding our solar system's origins. Now it will be examined only by less sophisticated European, Soviet and Japanese...