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NASA's manned space program may be suffering from hard times, but the space agency's unmanned exploration of the solar system is continuing to report stunning successes. In the past few years, robot spacecraft have surveyed the planet Mars in exquisite detail, sent back the first closeup pictures of Venus and Mercury, and penetrated the powerful radiation belts surrounding the sun's largest satellite, Jupiter. Now, after sweeping even closer to Jupiter than did its predecessor, Pioneer 10, last December, Pioneer 11 is beginning the long trip to its next target: Saturn...
FLASH GORDON: THE PLANET MONGO by Alex Raymond. Vol. I. PRINCE VALIANT by Harold Foster. Vol. I. Nostalgia Press. Both unpaged. $12.95 each...
...candidates for cultural immortality, more or less lovingly revived in four colors from what used to be called the funny papers. In Volume I of Flash Gordon, that Yaleman for all seasons progresses from his crash landing on the planet Mongo with delicious but dumb Dale Arden and brilliant...
...skirting Jupiter so closely, Pioneer 11 will plunge deeper into the planet's intense radiation belts than did Pioneer 10, which passed 81,000 miles from the cloudtops last December. As a result, Pioneer 11 will be subjected to radiation perhaps ten times as powerful as that encountered by its predecessor, which escaped with only minor damage to its instruments. If Pioneer 11's electronic gear survives, it should produce a bonanza of data: 22 closeup color pictures of Jupiter, including the first of its polar regions; new studies of the planet's temperature, radiation levels...
...trying to win approval of a two-planet flight that would be launched in 1979 to send a single spacecraft past Jupiter and Uranus. He is also trying to whip up enthusiasm for a ship that would go into orbit around Jupiter, monitoring the planet up to three years...