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Squeezed by rising costs of the Viet Nam war, still troubled by the fatal Apollo fire and influenced by polls reporting slipping public interest in space flight, congressional economizers have been slicing away at NASA's space budget. Their efforts have been so successful that the U.S., while still...
By contrast, the Soviet Union has scored only one success in 18 or 19 launches of probes to Mars and Venus. But that success was the apparent soft landing of a working, instrumented capsule on the surface of Venus last October, a feat indicating that the quality of Russian planetary...
Trend to Layoffs. NASA Administrator James Webb has asked Congress to authorize a corresponding series of U.S. shots. He has proposed rescheduling a modified 1971 Mariner shot to Mars, now scrapped because of the lack of funds, and following it with five additional Mariner-type flights to Mars and Venus...
Although NASA has ordered no additional Surveyors, Hughes scientists believe that the reliable little craft would be ideal for further lunar exploring-even for a trip to Mars. Properly modified, they say, Surveyor could land gently on Mars and return pictures and data for only ¼ to ⅓ the cost...
THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Mars and Beyond" takes a look at what is likely to be discovered by man in outer space. Repeat.