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...this: who in LaJolla or Orange County or Pasadena plays hoop on a makeshift. peach-basket-and-dirt court behind a shotgun house? Who in sunny California dribbles his digits numb in snow, rain, gravel and mud, day in, day out, religiously, every day of the year...
...South Pasadena, Calif...
Stanley A. Elman Pasadena, Calif...
...outer planets in the late 1970s to send, for example, a single spacecraft past Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, using the gravity of one planet to fling the ship toward the next. But Van Allen stubbornly refused to give up. At his suggestion, imaginative "back-room" trajectory experts at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory showed that a corkscrew turn could get Pioneer to Saturn at no extra cost...
Across San Andreas. Called Project ARIES (for Astronomical Radio Interferometric Earth Surveying), the experiment began last month using NASA'S 210-ft. dish antenna in California's Mojave Desert and a portable 30-ft. antenna at J.P.L.'s home in Pasadena. About 125 miles apart, the antennas formed a direct line across the San Andreas fault, source of California's most devastating quakes. But in coming months the smaller antenna will take to the road and make measurements across other quake-prone terrain. The scientists will bring their equipment back to each site at least once...