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What a difference a little rocket fuel makes. Nozomi, an unmanned Japanese spacecraft on a mission to Mars since its launch last July, was supposed to reach the Red Planet's orbit this October. But an unforeseen adjustment in the craft's direction has used up more fuel than was projected, and Nozomi will be a little late -- four years, to be exact...
They shatter a wine glass with a high pitch sound, use a ripple tank to demonstrate wave interactions and blast off across the lecture hall in a carbon dioxide-propelled rocket. Who are the people who perform these spectacular demonstrations during science lectures...
When John Glenn and the other Mercury astronauts began their probing of space, the whole world went nuts over how brave and daring these men were. Everyone overlooked the brave and daring pilots who were flying and dying in rocket planes in America's deserts. Now once again the media are telling the great space story, while the memories of the true rocket- and manned-flight pioneers fade away like desert shadows. CHARLES A. STORIE Sachsenheim, Germany...
That's not just hot air. "You'll not only be able to send up instruments cheaper than by rocket (for less than $2 million, vs. $40 million for the least expensive Delta launcher)," says astronomer Jack Tueller, program scientist for NASA's balloon project, "you'll also be able to assemble and launch your package quicker and carry more weight--up to 3,000 lbs.--and the instrument isn't subjected to vibrations or high Gs." Moreover, the scientific gear (though not the balloon) will be recoverable, drifting back to earth by parachute at the end of a mission...
Harvard's final tally, a rocket into the leftcorner of the CCSU goal at 71:31, was notched byjunior Julia Blain...