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After Mariners 6 and 7 photographed Mars last year and went into perpetual orbits around the sun, scientists at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory conducted an important test. Using NASA's giant 210-ft. Goldstone antenna in the California desert, they beamed powerful radio signals past the sun toward the little unmanned spacecraft. When they reached the Mariners some 250 million miles away, the signals were automatically amplified on board and transmitted back to earth. The entire round trip took only about 43 minutes, but the results may be momentous for all of physics. Last week...
...million dollars went down the drain because we opposed the Federal bulldozer. With the same breath, we proposed a resolution to create the Wellington-Harrison Citizens Committee," to give the local residents the opportunity to plan urban renewal projects. One fight Vellucci did lose, however, was to keep NASA out of Cambridge. The prediction he made about NASA in 1963 has come true: "I said in a 1963 Time magazine article that we would go to the moon before NASA was completed, and that the government would have no more need for NASA in Cambridge. It drove out 93 small...
...Braun also revealed that NASA is developing a Skylab, or permanently orbiting space station and laboratory, which would carry on earth-related research...
Commenting on Thomas Jefferson's failure to take advantage of the last opportunity for such a tour, which arises once every 179 years, von Braun stated in his talk, "After the Moon, What," that NASA is planning to cease moon exploration in favor of the grand tour and several other projects...
...NASA would never see people go hungry so that we could buy another gadget for space," von Braun said, "but a few billion dollars more a year would not embarrass us. We can help solve many of the earth's problems such as weather prediction and the location of natural resources," he added...