Word: orbital
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...lunar landing, space experts say, the Soviets will probably want to test two techniques that they have not yet attempted: 1) manned rendezvous and docking in space, and 2) an unmanned soft landing on the moon. Unmanned Russian spacecraft have twice rendezvoused and docked auto matically in earth orbit, but the technique would be far more difficult near the moon, 240,000 miles away from terrestrial control stations. And the Russians have yet to demonstrate a soft-landing system as reliable as the one that lowered five U.S. Surveyor spacecraft gently to the lunar surface...
...news of Russia's latest space venture came, as it has so often in the past, not from a Moscow spokesman but from a distinguished British scientist. Closemouthed Soviet scientists announced only that a space craft called Zond 5 had been launched into deep space from a parking orbit around the earth. But after Astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell trained his 250-ft. Jodrell Bank radio telescope on the receding craft and analyzed its signals, he told the world exactly what the Russians were trying to do. Zond's mission, he stated, was to fly around the moon...
...visual illusionism that plays with space and color to make the eye see beyond the surface of the work, perhaps inspired by the clear, bright light of Southern California (on its non-smog-gy days). The result, if not so divergent from similar work in the New York orbit as the Californians like to think, nevertheless offers a wide cornucopia of shapes, colors and visual sensations that display genuine individuality and vitality (see color pages). > Craig Kauffman, 36, studied architecture at the University of Southern California, went on to get a master's degree in painting at U.C.L.A. Tiring...
Mascon Troubles. NASA is confident that it can speedily solve the troubles of the LM, which is designed to carry two astronauts to the surface of the moon while the third remains in lunar orbit in the Apollo command module. Tests have shown that most of the LM's troubles are electrical, and technicians at Cape Kennedy are busily rewiring the spacecraft, shielding circuits and replacing switches...
Because of the age-old curiosity about life on Mars, the report also gives top priority to a Mariner orbital flight in 1971 and a Mariner-type craft that could orbit and land on the red planet by 1973. Mariner's large payload would enable it to carry instruments that might well detect life on Mars, if it exists...