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Let me state plainly that I do not advocate moving a moonlet of Mars to the Earth. Discussing such a project is not the same as proposing it. There is no scientific obstacle to doing it, as every physics student knows. But neither is there any point to it, unless...
Although an onslaught of astronaut sniffles and sore throats at Cape Kennedy last week delayed the orbital flight of Apollo 9, an unmanned spacecraft named Mariner 6 was successfully launched from a nearby pad. Its ambitious mission: to search for evidence that life can exist on Mars.
High above the atmosphere, Mariner unfolded its four rectangular solar panels and wheeled around until sensors locked onto the sun and the star Canopus, stabilizing the 850-lb. craft in space. Then, right on course, the complex space traveler settled down for a five-month, 226 million-mile journey that...
Enigmatic Features. As Mariner 6 approaches its goal this summer, one of its two television cameras will begin shooting a series of pictures that will show the full disk of the planet six times more clearly than it can be seen through Earth telescopes. While Mariner 6 sweeps over the...
Manned Flybys. At a time when much of the scientific community is in favor of confining manned soace flight to the vicinity of the earth, Singer has grander plans. Although a manned mission past nearby planets would be physically trying, to say nothing of being more complicated and expensive than...