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Though unmanned spacecraft have already landed on the moon, photographed Mars and crashed onto Venus, the more distant planets of the solar system are still beyond the practical grasp of man. None of the rockets now used in either the U.S. or Russian space programs are powerful enough to reach...
Proved by Mars. Under Stewart's direction, scientists at JPL's Advanced Studies Office have calculated that a Saturn 5-powered craft launched on Oct. 1, 1978, would gain so much speed as it passed Jupiter that it could reach Saturn in only 2.8 years and Uranus in...
The discovery of methanelike compounds on Mars, Kaplan believes, leaves only one important obstacle to life on the red planet: the apparent lack of water in liquid form. What little Martian water there is exists as polar-cap frost or vapor in the atmosphere; there are no oceans or even...
Convincing Picture. Scientists may soon be able to talk about Mars with more certainty. Astronomers Pierre and Janine Connes have now improved their instruments. They hope to make new and better spectrograms next year when Mars passes within 60 million miles of the earth. When these are available, says Kaplan...
Tsien Hsue-shen's Degrees. Yet any picture of Caltech solely as thinker and M.I.T. solely as doer is out of focus. While M.I.T. draws no less than $126 million of its annual operating budget of $178 million from work for the Defense Department and NASA, Caltech has 181...