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Other sure eye-catchers are Collins' own spacecraft and the Friendship Seven Mercury capsule that carried John Glenn on the first U.S. orbital flight. Perhaps the most appealing exhibit in the Space Hall, another of the great bays, is the massive black and gold Skylab space station. The only bottleneck in the building is at Skylab's narrow portal, where crowds line up to enter. Says Collins...
...probably the only place in the world where people can walk through a real spacecraft...
...mathematics, Appel and Haken's achievement may mean more than the end to a stubborn problem. Up to now, many theorists have been wary of using computers rather than simple, elegant blackboard equations to seek out basic mathematical truths; tedious chores like tracking a spacecraft, which involve no new principles, were left to the electronic brains. Now, by dramatically showing that there may be certain fundamental questions that only the high-speed electronic whizzes can answer, Appel and Haken may well have ushered in a new era of computer computation on the frontiers of higher mathematics...
...gutsier movies that seize audiences instead of rocking them to sleep. One feature in the storyboard stage, The Hero from Otherwhere, is about two schoolboys who find themselves on a strange planet whose black leader persuades them to help destroy a wolf that has been ravaging the land. Another, Spacecraft One, about a mile-long spaceship in its search for life on other planets, is Disney's most elaborate sci-fi undertaking since 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The Black Cauldron, still in the treatment-writing stages, is about a pig keeper's struggle with a villain...
...photosynthesis-was under way. The photosynthesis experiment, plus the two that showed the unexpectedly early results, will take twelve days to complete. Furthermore, the tests will have to be repeated before Viking biologists can draw any firm conclusions about the existence of life in the particular soil that the spacecraft has sampled...