Word: marse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: It was fitting that when Adlai Stevenson met his death [July 23], America was making world history with its Mariner conquest of Mars. It was fitting because Stevenson believed in man; he knew that there was nothing man could not do, from the vilest destruction to the most inspiring...
Sir: My enjoyment of your Mariner cover story [July 23] was somewhat curtailed by the implication that "science fictioneers" are not authors of serious literary works. Men like A. E. Van Vogt, Poul Anderson and Isaac Asimov are respected as writers of fact as well as fiction. The thought that...
Sir: I used to know left from right. In the old days, I would have said that somebody had flopped the negatives of the pictures of Mars's surface in your fine cover article. The computer age seems to be changing most of our other concepts, however, so perhaps...
The pictures were not as clear as JPL engineers had hoped for, but certainly better than they had feared. Over the next few months the Mariner picture team will experiment with various methods to highlight the most meaningful images: they will try to clean up the signals, check and recheck...
> Dan Schneiderman, 43, electrical engineer and Mariner IV project director, had to make the final decisions on any hair-raising problems during the Mars encounter. He has worked on the Corporal and Jupiter missiles, was systems manager of the Mariner II Venus probe. His ideal: "To remain a virgin in...