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Plans for voyaging to the moon are a dime a dozen, but according to Astronomy Professor Jan Schilt of Columbia University, they are all aimed at the wrong moon. Last week he explained why man's first round trip to an extraterrestrial body may be to one of the...
A voyage to the neighborhood of Mars, about 35 million miles away, will take only slightly more fuel than a near approach to the moon. In each case most of the fuel is expended while breaking away from the strong, close-in gravitational field of the earth. A landing on...
Last week the argument revolved around whether the U.S. ought to design and build an entirely new aircraft for nuclear power (time estimate: four to six years) or install a reactor to power an existing-type plane (time estimate: three years). The Navy said that it could adapt several of...
Disneyland: Walt Disney's hour-long Mars and Beyond on ABC this week (Wed. 7:30 p.m.. E.S.T.) is doubly instructive. It should teach viewers of all ages plenty about the prospects of life and travel in the solar system, should serve TV producers well as a model...
The first flight of Project Stratoscope, thinks Dr. Schwarzschild, was so successful that the same method may be used to take pictures of the planets. A larger balloon-borne telescope floating far above atmospheric turbulence might decide once and for all the romantic debate about life on Mars.