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...that it was beginning its own lunar program, with a first unmanned landing set for six years away. The program is called Chang'e, a reference to the story of the lonely Chinese fairy who fled to the moon after stealing her husband's immortality pills. If China's lander cruises anywhere near the U.S. outpost, it may touch off a Sino-U.S. space competition reminiscent of the old U.S.-Soviet space race...
...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 Elachi. "Now is the time to be careful...
...planet last week passed closer to Earth than it has in almost 60,000 years. Even as Spirit and Opportunity speed toward their wintertime rendezvous, the European Space Agency has a probe of its own on the way, a stationary lander expected to touch down on Mars on Christmas Day. The Japanese, back in 1998, launched an orbiter, which, after a circuitous route through the solar system, should arrive sometime in December...
...when Lander did meet with a group of scientists including some from FAS, he was not well received...
...officials from Harvard said that the size of institute had fluctuated considerably, and Schreiber said the proposal was essentially the same as what Lander originally floated...