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...hometown crowd at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, reacted even before Vice President Al Gore announced which of three hotly competitive designs had been chosen as the space shuttle of the future. Lockheed Martin's VentureStar, which would be built in nearby Palmdale, looks like no other spacecraft, and when Gore reached for a model airship shaped like a giant piece of pie, the group burst into applause. Undaunted, the Vice President plunged on with his scripted gag, "You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand the importance of this moment...
DIED. IRVING KRICK, 89, meteorologist who helped forecast the crucial weather conditions that prompted General Eisenhower to choose June 6, 1944, as D-day for the invasion of Normandy; in Pasadena, California...
...Earth's path around the sun. More than 100 NEOS big enough to cause the kind of worldwide disaster that wiped out the dinosaurs (six-tenths of a mile across or larger) have already been identified and charted. But Eleanor Helin, an astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, notes that an estimated 2,000 more of these mountain-size hulks may be lurking undetected out there, to say nothing of a few hundred thousand smaller but still worrisome boulder-size objects...
...PASADENA: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has announced plans to send an unmanned "rover" to Mars at the end of the year, the first sign of NASA's interest in the Red Planet since it lost contact with its billion-dollar Observer spaceship in 1993. NASA plans to launch its Pathfinder mission next December 2, 1996. If it lands on Mars as planned on July 4, 1997, it would be the first time since two Viking missions landed there in 1976. "Mars has always had this romantic hold on us," says TIME aerospace correspondent Jerry Hannifin...
Forty-seven years ago, the Wildcats were sent off to Pasadena to play California with signs reading GO WEST, YOUNG MEN AND SMELL THOSE ROSES and MAKE WALDORF SALAD--a reference to Cal coach Pappy Waldorf. Thanks to a 43-yd. run by Ed Tunnicliff with three minutes to go, Northwestern beat Cal 20-14 for coach Bob Voigts...