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...sped toward its historic rendezvous, the 570-lb. spacecraft was battered by a blizzard of charged particles so intense that scientists at NASA'S Ames Research Center near San Francisco feared that all of its eleven instruments would be destroyed. Recalls Physicist...
Across San Andreas. Called Project ARIES (for Astronomical Radio Interferometric Earth Surveying), the experiment began last month using NASA'S 210-ft. dish antenna in California's Mojave Desert and a portable 30-ft. antenna at J.P.L.'s home in Pasadena. About 125 miles apart, the antennas formed a direct line across the San Andreas fault, source of California's most devastating quakes. But in coming months the smaller antenna will take to the road and make measurements across other quake-prone terrain. The scientists will bring their equipment back to each site at least once...
...shortened flight was an embarrassment to the Russians, who had advertised it as another warmup for next year's Apollo-Soyuz rendezvous. It was also a disappointment to American officials, who worry that Soviet space technology might not be up to the joint mission. Moreover, financially-strapped NASA now will find it more difficult to convince Congress that it needs more funds for space research, particularly for joint experiments with the Russians...
This dramatic scenario is no longer confined to the daydreams of imaginative exobiologists.* Last week technicians at TRW Inc. in Redondo Beach, Calif., were finishing two miniaturized laboratories that will be able to test Martian soil for evidence of life. Next August, in the climax to NASA'S $1 billion Project Viking, two unmanned spacecraft will be fired aloft from Cape Canaveral. After an eleven-month journey, the Viking ships will swing into orbit around Mars. Each will release a lander containing a life-seeking laboratory. After descending with the aid of parachute and braking rockets, the first sterilized...
...self-effacing autobiography, Collins tells how he sidestepped Army nepotism by joining the Air Force. He became a hot-shot test pilot, was married, and eventually filtered through the rigorous screening process to find his way into the glamorous arms of NASA. This account of Collins' early training and the moon mission adds up to the best-written book yet by any of the astronauts...