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You may not know it, but NASA is guarding you against this danger through the “Office of Planetary Protection,” which is charged with preventing the inadvertent spreading of life between worlds during space exploration. Our efforts to prevent “back contamination?...
And that is just a start. With Russia's space program sputtering for lack of funds and the U.S.'s embroiled in an emotional debate over the future in the wake of Columbia's disintegration, China is looking to catch up to and even surpass its two rivals in the...
Finding Life on Mars The proximity of Mars to Earth [NOTEBOOK, Sept. 1] once again raised the question of whether there is life on the Red Planet. When the Soviet Union launched an unmanned probe to scout the Martian skies [July 18, 1988], we took the opportunity to remind readers...
"The triumphant mission of the U.S. spacecraft Mariner 4 [in 1965] brought some reality to musings about Mars. The craft flew past the planet at a distance of only 9,800 kilometers, transmitting 22 television pictures of a bleak, moonlike landscape pockmarked by craters and showing no signs of life...
In private, though, some Chinese scientists whisper that the country's stated goals-growing seeds in space or searching the moon for the isotope helium 3 for possible use in nuclear fusion reactors-could be accomplished more cheaply and easily with robotic explorers. Many predict that after the political goal...