Word: marse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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¶ Since visible light can carry vastly more information than radio waves, a beam of maser light accurately trained on Mars could handle all the communications that would ever be needed by a Mars colony.
By the time the first U.S. astronaut starts his 4½-hour trip around the earth, Project Mercury will have cost at least $350 million. Explains Mercury's Robert R. Gilruth: "We had to go with the boosters we had, built around the Atlas system. So everything had to...
In some areas the picture is encouraging. Space communications are more than adequate: the U.S. maintained direct, constant contact with Pioneer V until the 70,000 m.p.h. probe was 22.5 million miles from earth. And both Russia and the U.S. have the technological capability to guide a rocket on an...
The price of a ticket to the moon, in the children's nursery rhyme, was a single foundling penny and the method of transportation a kite. For the rocket-borne commercial space traveler of the future, the tab will be considerably higher-but still astonishingly low. In a detailed...
Finley Peter Dunne, whose Mr. Dooley is the alltime choice of many political connoisseurs, swaddled his man in an Irish dialect that magically permitted him to speak his mind. He once called John D. Rockefeller "a kind iv society f'r th' prevention iv croolty to money," and...