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...will not return to space until the joint U.S.-Russian venture in 1975. But last week unmanned robot craft were ranging far and wide across the solar system on missions of planetary exploration. NASA announced that Pioneer 11, already three-quarters of the way to Jupiter, will proceed to Saturn and provide the first close-up look at the ringed planet. From Mars, an orbiting Soviet spacecraft sent back new, detailed views of the Martian surface. At week's end, fresh from its reconnaissance of cloud-shrouded Venus, Mariner 10, now nearing Mercury, began transmitting its first pictures...
...space agency's approval of a mission to Saturn will require a course change that will send the craft whipping by Jupiter at a distance of only 26,000 miles. Accelerated by Jovian gravity, Pioneer 11 will then be flung across the solar system for a rendezvous with Saturn in September 1979. The new flight plan was decided upon only after careful analysis of Pioneer 10's performance last December; it came within 81,000 miles of Jupiter's cloudtops and was subjected to an intense bombardment of charged particles from Jupiter's radiation belts. Pioneer...
Harvard Student Agencies may lose over $5000 this month because of an unfilled California charter flight. The Saturn Airlines flight scheduled to leave Friday and to return January 11 has over 20 seats yet unoccupied...
...general manager Bradley T. Howe '63 said yesterday that HSA is prepared to absorb the deficit at $250 per seat. HSA chartered the Saturn Airways plane two weeks ago when it appeared that the TWA air attendants' strike would extend through Christmas...
Three-hundred and fifty Harvard students with reservations on C1 and C3 flights were advised last week to seek alternate transportation. The new arrangements with Saturn were completed this week in response to HSA's requests for alternate carriers submitted several weeks...