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...Mariner IV...
...Mariner IV, the agile U.S. spacecraft designed to take the measure of Mars, has lived up to every expectation. At Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory last week, the last worries vanished; there was no longer any concern that the ship's tape recorder might have gone haywire during part of its historic pass at the red planet. As soon as the eleventh picture came through, JPL monitors knew that all was well. Mariner got all the 21 pictures it went after-plus a bonus: 22 lines of a 22nd picture, which might show the dark edge of Mars...
...John Casani, 33, Mariner IV's meticulous systems manager, has a reputation among his colleagues as being the man who knows the most about every part of the spacecraft...
...Richard Sloan, 34, a Caltech-educated physicist, was in charge of the scientific instruments aboard Mariner IV. Before joining JPL for the Ranger moon shot, he did basic research on low-temperature physics at Caltech. He believes man shows his nobility by action. Says Sloan: "Tears streamed down my face when Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile...
...Nicholas A. Renzetti, 50, a Columbia Ph.D. in physics, was responsible for directing communications to and from Mariner IV...