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...preparation. Kohoutek may well be the most intensely scrutinized celestial object in the history of astronomy; it will be tracked and studied by thousands of scientists and an incredible array of instruments ranging from the 200-in. telescope on Mount Palomar to the sophisticated devices aboard Skylab and other spacecraft...
...preparing for the launch of the Skylab 3 mission, which may become the longest manned space flight. An unmanned U.S. craft, Pioneer 10, is closing in on Jupiter after a voyage of 20 months across more than half a billion miles of the solar system. Still another unmanned spacecraft, Mariner 10, is speeding toward a flyby of Venus and later will provide the first closeup view of Mercury-man's first two-planet survey with a single space probe...
...comet makes its pass around the sun (see diagram). A special comet observatory is being built on South Baldy Mountain, near Socorro, N. Mex. NASA will also launch several rockets carrying instruments to observe the comet from above the earth's obscuring atmosphere. Mariner 10, an unmanned spacecraft scheduled to be launched on Nov. 3 for a flyby of Venus and Mercury, will transmit a TV picture of Kohoutek. Pioneer 8, another satellite already in orbit around the sun, should be in position in early January to transmit radio signals through the comet's tail, thus providing clues...
...water system breaks down. They point out that no one-including the AEC'S own experts-is sure it will work. Reason: the system has been tested only with theoretical computer models. But, says Ray, "most big projects are designed this way. NASA did not destroy an Apollo spacecraft to test how much stress it could take...
...approaches middle age, married and with a five-year-old daughter, the drag king confesses to occasional doubts about spending his life at a teenager's pastime while his Cornell classmates are building bridges, designing spacecraft or helping run the automobile industry. "Then," he says, "I ask myself, 'What else can I do to make so much money?' The answer is 'nothing...