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Science Editor Fred Golden first met Carl Sagan, this week's cover subject, in 1969, when TIME did a story on possible earth contamination from the Apollo 11 moon-landing mission. Golden, who had just come to the subject after writing for the World section, was eager to develop...
A faithful robot orbiting Mars finally runs out of gas
Precisely on schedule one day last week, controllers at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., sent an electronic command leaping across 164 million miles of space. With that, Viking Orbiter 1, which has been faithfully circling Mars once every 47½ hours for the past four years...
Even the cool NASA professionals in the control room were not unmoved. With the orbiter's death came the end of another phase of the $1 billion Project Viking, the most ambitious mission to another planet to date. Back in 1975, twin spacecraft, each consisting of an orbiter and...
Despite the orbiter's death last week, the JPL controllers will still get occasional glimpses from the Martian surface. One lander remains operational and, although it has lost its partner in the Martian sky, it has been programmed to keep its antenna pointed directly to earth and send a...