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...exploring the Red Planet. Last week, on July 20, at 8:12 a.m. (E.D.T.)-seven years to the day after the first men walked on the moon-this dream became a reality. "Touchdown! We have touchdown!" shouted Project Manager James S. Martin Jr. as he watched the consoles at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Only 17 sec. behind schedule, the lander was safely down on Mars' Chryse Planitia (golden plains...
BUSING. Soon after a federal judge reshuffled students and desegregated public high schools in Pasadena, Calif., population shifts re-created some predominantly black schools. But by a 6-to-2 vote the Supreme Court last week decided that courts cannot alter the new imbalance since "these shifts were not attributed to any segregative actions" by school officials. While not disagreeing with the general principle, Dissenter Marshall did not believe that full desegregation had occurred in Pasadena. He feared, as a result, that judicial supervision of integration will now relax as soon as an initial "school attendance zone scheme [is] successful...
ALEXANDER FRANKLIN HERMAN GOETZ, 38, a supervising geophysicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif, is descended from scientifically gifted Ben Franklin. Though he is highly competitive, Goetz deplores the emphasis on competition in American life. "People in the U.S. are involved in competition for money, status and jobs and therefore are perhaps not as concerned about one another as they should be." Still, he recognizes that such rivalry enabled the U.S. to progress. "As Franklin said, you work real hard, and you are just a little bit better, and you're a success in business...
Even as the robot was sending data to its orbiting mother ship for relay back to scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, the other probe of the eight-year-old $1 billion Viking program was closing in on Mars. The twin Viking 2 spacecraft is scheduled to send still another lander to the Martian surface on Sept. 4, either to expand the search or to stand in for Viking 1 should something go amiss with the first lander. Scientists rate Viking's chances of a successful landing at 70%. Unlike the Apollo lunar module, which could...
Viking will not wait for any congratulatory messages from Pasadena. Within seconds after touchdown, with almost unseemly haste, it will automatically point a camera down and take a picture of one of its foot pads and the surrounding soil. Scientists programmed this quick shot so that they could at the very least learn about grain sizes, erosion and other surface conditions near Viking's feet in the event that some catastrophe befalls the craft soon after the landing. Six minutes later, like a wary human set down on alien soil, Viking will look cautiously up from its foot...