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...rock was only lukewarm when it was picked up in a field near the southern Australia town of Murchison last year. By last week, it had become the hottest sensation in the scientific world. After carefully examining a chunk of the meteorite, NASA scientists reported that it contains the strongest evidence ever found that the chemical precursors of life can evolve elsewhere in the universe...
Borman is now an executive of Eastern Airlines and will return to that post after completing the 13-week Business School program. He resigned from NASA soon after returning from the flight of Apollo...
...Soviets were understandably exultant. "The flight of Luna 17 signifies the start of a new stage in the study of the moon," said Radio Moscow. U.S. space officials saw no reason to disagree. "Just fantastic," said one NASA scientist. His boss, Acting NASA Chief George Low, noted that the Russians had launched 22 space missions in the past two months alone-earth satellites as well as two moon shots. With the addition of Luna 17 to the list, he said, it is clear that the Soviet Union is "operating with an advanced state of technology and is exploiting...
Lunar Mapping. One thing Lunokhod cannot do is come back to earth. Even though it was built of extremely light materials, its undisclosed weight is apparently too great for the lift-off capability of Luna 17. In that respect, Lunokhod resembles NASA's own lunar rover,* which will be carried to the moon by Apollo...
Other scientists have "created" new cells in the past, usually by taking the nucleus of one and implanting it into another whose nucleus had been removed. But the NASA-sponsored Buffalo workwhich was controversially described by its team leader, James F. Danielli, "as the first artificial synthesis of a living cell"apparently goes somewhat beyond the earlier research...