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The planet Mars follows such an eccentric orbit around the sun that it is accessible to probing spacecraft from earth only one month out of every 25-a period referred to by scientists as "the window." All through November the window was open, but the first U.S. attempt to peek...
(See Cover) Along the banks of the meandering Brandywine River, set on a bluff that overlooks nearby Wilmington, stands a cluster of buildings whose occupants are true men of mystery. Many of them work in perpetual semidarkness and others in rooms that seem as barren as the face of Mars...
But failures are to be expected in so difficult a venture. A second spacecraft, Mariner D, is ready to go, and will be fired before the "window" (the favorable time when Mars is in an accessible position) closes on Nov. 30. If Mariner D fails too, Mars and its secrets...
The U.S. attempt to explore Mars got off to a poor start last week. The Mariner C spacecraft, launched at Cape Kennedy, did not jettison its 300-lb. wind-shroud, and the extra weight kept it from attaining the 25,600 m.p.h. speed necessary to reach the red planet.
To Mars & Venus. Westinghouse produces salt-water-conversion plants that can make 50 million gallons of fresh water a day and bacteria-killing bulbs that give no light the human eye can see, is also working on a nuclear engine that may some day power spaceships to Mars and Venus...