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Among those at the most practical pole of space science is Astronauticist Charles Draper. In his capacity as head of M.I.T.'s Instrumentation Lab, Draper in 1960 was working on guidance systems for space vehicles of the Dyna-Soar type ?vehicles with supporting wings to get them out of...
By almost any standard, Stanford Geneticist Joshua Lederberg is the purest of pure scientists. Yet Lederberg's current interests extend into space in a way that pauperizes science fiction. Working under a Rockefeller Foundation grant, he and his Stanford team are designing and building a prototype apparatus that can be...
Howard E. Menzel, professor of Astrophysics, confirmed last week that the Freshman Astronomy seminar has made what may be an important contribution to the success of the Mars "fly-by" probe.
The probe consists of a satellite to be launched in 1962 that will attempt to photograph Mars at close range. The Freshmen proposed that instead of storing the photographs on magnetic tape, the satellite should be equipped with video tape. The video tape would permit the probe to take and...
Died. Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, 96, biographer, historian and poet whose warmth and urbanity led his fellow Harvardman, Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, to nominate him as the ideal man to represent the human race on a mission to Mars; in Cambridge, Mass. After eye trouble ended Howe's...