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...peculiar kind of meditation is included-about the planet Jupiter and the color blue if it happens to be Thursday or about Saturn and black if it happens to be Saturday. ("Think black. Your center of zero is black. Now see that black vibrate ... Feel it running up your leg ...") In addition, there is a mix of Egyptian gymnastics, African dances and Hindu mantras or incantations ("Owwwww" or "Ommmmm...
...three parts, breaks the more serious, introspective mood of the preceding works with a jab at ballet and even at rock dancing. From the wings leap blue-jeaned, mod T-shirted dancers to the classical strains of Tchaikovsky while simultaneously, pastel lights expose large cardboard stars, ringed Saturn, a large puffy white cloud, and a smiling crescent moon dropping down from the heavens. When the mock Corps de Ballet appears together--barely a semblance of unity--they cause bursts of laughter by purposely bumping into one another and getting out of step...
...four years, Brady fed into a computer mathematical models of a ten-planet solar system, seeking the characteristics of a still undiscovered planet that would cause the irregularities in the comet's orbit. Gradually the description of Planet X emerged: it would be three times as massive as Saturn (second largest of the planets) and nearly 6 billion miles from the sun (more than half again as far as Pluto). It would take 464 years to complete a single trip around the sun, and the plane of its orbit would be tilted an angle of approximately 60° from...
...imagination and severely tested NASA's engineering ingenuity: an eleven-year flight to the very edge of the solar system. On one "Grand Tour," the spaceship would have swooped by Jupiter and with a whiplike assist from that planet's powerful gravitational field, flown past the ringed Saturn and finally Pluto, the outermost planet. In another version, the spacecraft would have used a similar "gravity assist" from Jupiter to swing by Uranus and Neptune instead of Pluto. Scheduled for the late 1970s, the Grand Tours would literally have been once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. The outer planets will...
...allow the financially pressed space agency to concentrate on the Administration's multibillion-dollar space-shuttle program; one Tour mission, in contrast, would have cost about $700 million. As an alternative, NASA is considering what it euphemistically calls a "mini-grand tour": a flyby of Jupiter and possibly Saturn using modifications of existing vehicles like Mariner 9, still in orbit around Mars. In fact, such a spacecraft is now being prepared for launch from Cape Kennedy for a two-year flight to Jupiter...