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...launch the $196M Pathfinder in December in order to intercept Mars' orbit or wait two years for another chance. "We're a museum piece if we don't launch by the 31st," said Curtis Cleven, launch operations manager. If successful, the craft will be the first-ever inter-planetary rover, slated to land on July 4, 1997. Several hours after Pathfinder parachutes down, the petals on the spacecraft will unfold; a six-wheeled, 23-pound rover will come out to roam the Martian surface, examining rocks and beaming back data. The launch has been tentatively rescheduled for Wednesday...
...moment, it appears that the future holds payrolls aplenty in the Mars game. In December NASA and Russian officials will meet in Washington to discuss a joint 2001 Mars mission that may make use of the shelved Russian rover. NASA itself has even more ambitious plans. With $100 million a year in Mars money promised by Congress, the space agency hopes to launch a pair of flights like Surveyor and Pathfinder every two years until...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "It's wrong for someone to be driving around in a Land Rover, wearing Gucci shoes and saying, 'I'm an environmentalist because I went camping last night...
...best to provide low entertainment. So we have hilariously unwholesome scenes in which, for example, the chief political strategist to the President of the U.S. is described as barking around an expensive Washington hotel suite on all fours. Besides that arresting scene, the story offers continuing suspense: Will Rover's wife forgive him this untidiness? Has she heard of the Invisible Fence...
...ships of the 1970s, Pathfinder will land on Mars' pockmarked surface. Unlike the Vikings, Pathfinder will have someplace to go once it gets there. After the pyramid-shaped payload touches down, its sides will open like the petals of a 3-ft.-tall flower to reveal a six-wheeled rover. Powered by solar cells and D-cell batteries, the 2-ft.-long robot vehicle is supposed to hum away from the landing pod, crawling at 2 ft. a minute, and sample the soil for several weeks--or until its batteries...