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Your review of Carrying the Fire by Mike Collins refers to his vision of a spacecraft with a crew of women with bobbing breasts. I have beaten Astronaut-Author Collins to the NASA SUTRA. The opening of chapter 11 of my Rendezvous with Rama reads...
After a perilous 21-month journey across more than half a billion miles of space, a tiny, unmanned spacecraft named Pioneer 10 passed within 81,000 miles of the giant planet Jupiter last December. That first close-up peek at the sun's largest satellite lasted barely...
...sped toward its historic rendezvous, the 570-lb. spacecraft was battered by a blizzard of charged particles so intense that scientists at NASA'S Ames Research Center near San Francisco feared that all of its eleven instruments would be destroyed. Recalls Physicist...
Walker Fillius, whose detector picked up electrons at a rate of 13 million per sec.-more than enough to penetrate several inches of steel: "We were biting our nails to see if the spacecraft would survive-and it did, just by a hair...
...than all of the other planets combined, the whirling giant bulges at the middle like the earth, only far more so. Pioneer found that Jupiter's equatorial diameter (88,298 miles) is nearly 6,000 miles greater than the spread between its poles. The data returned by the spacecraft also support the long-held theory that Jupiter is unique among planets: a great ball of whirling gases and liquids with no solid surface. Its outermost 600 miles consist of an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium gases laced with clouds composed of crystals of ammonia, ammonia hydrosulfide and water...