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...miles above Jupiter's turbulent cloudtops, the spacecraft will be pulled by the planet's gravitational field into a corkscrew-shaped turn and whipped out on a new trajectory. Its next target, after a five-year trip across a vast expanse of space: the ringed planet Saturn, never before explored by a ship from earth...
...discovering the radiation belts around the earth that now bear his name (TIME cover, May 4, 1959). Even before Pioneer 11 was launched nearly two years ago, Van Allen was urging that the planned flyby of Jupiter should be changed into a two-for-one mission that would include Saturn. NASA had just scuttled its even more ambitious "grand tours," which would have taken advantage of the alignment of the outer planets in the late 1970s to send, for example, a single spacecraft past Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, using the gravity of one planet to fling the ship toward...
...have occurred when the planets last aligned on one side of the sun in 1803. But historical records for such quake-prone regions as Chile, Japan and China show no such upswing in seismological activity that year. Equally to the point, says U.C.L.A. Astronomy Chairman George Abell, Jupiter and Saturn alone are such huge planets that they pack about twelve times the mass of all the other planets combined; yet in their more frequent lineups they show no special gravitational influence on solar activities or earthquakes...
...desolate plot of weeds was once the Saturn I complex, the scene of the space program's worst disaster: a flash fire that on Jan. 27, 1967, cost the lives of Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, and came very close to fatally dampening national enthusiasm for space flight as well. Recently, launch towers and other equipment at the complex that cost $68 million were sold as scrap...
...terms. Meanwhile, the hulking, $117 million Vehicle Assembly Building, which covers eight acres, seems destined to become the world's most expensive warehouse. Besides equipment for the U.S.-Russian flight, it now houses only the unused spare parts of previous programs-vehicles and rocket stages built for four Saturn spacecraft...