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...while the cosmonauts performed their orbital acrobatics, the rugged little unmanned Russian moon rover, Lunokhod, came back to life and resumed its patrols for the eighth consecutive two-week-long lunar day. Farther out in space, two Russian spacecraft were racing their smaller American counterpart, Mariner 9, to the planet Mars. But the attention of the world was focused on the orbiting cosmonauts and their achievement: the manning of the first experimental laboratory in orbit around the earth...
...guards, some millenarians chart the signs of the Apocalypse with the aid of handbooks like The Late Great Planet Earth. They see smog and pollution prophesied in Isaiah; the taking of Old Jerusalem by the Jews, and the admission of ten nations into the Common Market are signs that the end is near...
...been prevented by public outcry from using nuclear weapons in Southeast Asia, did indeed use them in Latin America (claiming, of course, that to do so would save lives and shorten the war). So most of us are dead-to all intents and purposes... What a garden-spot this planet could have been...
...purpose of the six-month, 290,000,000-mile flight, the Soviets said, was to conduct scientific investigations of the Red Planet. But the great weight of the spacecraft immediately suggested the possibility that the Russians may attempt a soft landing. The U.S. is not scheduled to launch its Viking soft-lander instrument package toward Mars until 1975. Said NASA's Deputy Administrator George Low of the Russian effort: "I hope it gets there, and I hope we share with them in the data...
...ancestors had any inkling that their progeny would not swing from tree to tree, but from planet to planet in spaceships, they probably would have had the same fears and apprehensions as we have. And if these Miocene-era ape men had had the power and the will to halt evolution (as we seem to have the choice), we would not be here, but in the trees. If we see our state as superior and improved as compared to that of the apes, then why not let the improving process continue...