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Time was, Mars was a busy place. Everybody, it seemed--or at least everybody at NASA--wanted to fling something the Red Planet's way. First there were Mariner probes whizzing through the Martian neighborhood, then Mariner probes orbiting the planet. Next there was a Viking probe that actually landed...
But before long never came. As the nation's interest in space travel waned in the post-Apollo years, Washington's willingness to bankroll every grand scheme the space agency came up with vanished. By the late 1970s, NASA--once the trust-fund baby of a doting Congress--had to...
Now, however, just as public interest has been rekindled by the first hints that there might have been life on Mars, ships from the U.S. and Russia are starting to fly again. On Nov. 6, NASA is scheduled to launch an unmanned craft that should be orbiting Mars by this...
Ironically, much of the trans-Mars traffic comes from a change not so much in science as in economics: the new craft are cheap--dirt cheap, by space standards. Engineers at last appear to have learned how to build a spaceship on a budget, and as the costs come down...
Jerry Burley gets a rematch with old adversary Jackson-Lee. An African-American conservative, he supports educational reform to give parents school choice and enterprise zones to create jobs. Democrat Mike Lamson is a Houston litigation attorney who favors using federal funding to punish violent criminals. He also defends public...