Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about when -and under what conditions-life began on the planet. Only last month, a Harvard University paleobiologist pushed back the dawn of life by announcing the finding of what appeared to be fossils of single-celled organisms dating back 3.5 billion years. Now biologists working under grants from NASA and the National Science Foundation have identified living creatures that may be little changed from organisms that lived during the first billion years of the earth's existence...
Like tourists everywhere, the two Viking landers and their orbiters have spent much of the 15 months since their arrival on Mars snapping pictures of the Red Planet. The latest batch includes the best and most revealing shots yet. Among the pictures released by NASA: a photomosaic of the planet's north pole, showing a concentric pattern of striations in the ice cap; a color snapshot showing newly formed frost on the ground near the feet of the dust-covered Viking 2 lander; and a photo proving that something-wind, a tremor, a frost heave-has caused a portion...
...science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope some day, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination." NASA estimates that it would take Voyager 1 at least 40,000 years to approach the nearest star system and deliver the message-and, presumably, the same amount of time for anyone (or anything) out there to reply...
...wings were carrying not only the promise of far easier access to space, its exploitation and, yes, even colonization, but the future of America's shrunken space program as well. Ever since the Apollo 17 mission put the last Americans on the moon more than four years ago, NASA has been slowly turning away from one-shot man-in-space spectaculars. Instead, it has been concentrating an increasing amount of research and money on development of the space shuttle, a "pickup truck" of a craft that could be shot into orbit, stop off with men and equipment...
...hopes to plow some of its Star Wars profits into Alien, the tale of an otherworldly creature who takes to mugging U.S. spacemen. American International Pictures plans a spacey adventure titled The Incredible Melting Man, in which a returning astronaut poses some sticky problems for the p.r. boys at NASA. The poor fellow has to gulp down gallons of blood in order to keep from liquefying. Universal Pictures plans to remake The Thing from Another World, originally directed by Howard Hawks in 1951, and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), which will star Lily Tomlin this time as an incredible shrinking...