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After a voyage of more than five months and 248 million miles, the first of a trio of terrestrial ships made its rendezvous with Mars late last week. Precisely on schedule, the 1,300-lb. U.S. Mariner 9 fired its retrorocket and went into a looping orbit around the red...
The Russians, for their part, continued to remain silent about their two unmanned craft, which are expected to reach Mars some five to ten days after Mariner. But U.S. scientists who recently visited Russia revealed last week that they had been told by their Soviet counterparts that Mars 2 and...
Small Targets. For the time being, however, Mariner 9 was stealing the space show. Even before going into orbit, it took three series of pictures of Mars from distances varying between 535,000 and 70,000 miles, stored the images on tape, and then, on commands from mission control, transmitted...
All My Sons is an excellent play of this type, although it is marred by an excessive reliance on melodrama. Joe Keller is proud of his material success, but unfortunately it is stained with blood. Shadily, he has been acquitted of manufacturing faculty aircraft parts during the war which caused...
The Soviets and the U.S. are already fully aware of one dramatic Martian occurrence. Since the end of September, astronomers have observed a dust storm on the planet. Spreading at the rate of 20 or 30 m.p.h., the yellowish cloud now obscures much of the planet's surface and...