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Venera confirmed readings by earlier Soviet and U.S. missions indicating that the temperature on the surface of Venus is about 880° F-hot enough to melt lead. The spacecraft also revealed that Venusian surface material is only about half the density of soil on earth...
Most of the Venusian hemisphere facing the earth was in darkness when Venera 8 arrived, but the Russians managed to land their spacecraft in the narrow crescent that was illuminated by the sun. With the aid of Venera's photometer, Soviet scientists could determine that about two-thirds of the solar radiation striking Venus penetrates the thick cloud cover and reaches the surface. Thus there is a long (about 116 earth days) period of daylight as well as a lengthy nighttime on the surface of Venus, which revolves on its axis only once every 243 earth days. Surprisingly...
...trying. Last week he began his proselytism in earnest, working 18-hour days as he crisscrossed the nation. He barged boldly into settings where his reception was not likely to be friendly: a meeting of rabbis in Los Angeles, an aerospace plant in San Diego, the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, the Southern Governors' Conference in South Carolina. He earned grudging respect in those quarters but not enough to give his lagging drive much of a lift...
Scheduled for December, the sixth and last manned Apollo mission to land on the moon began the long process of gearing up last week as its spacecraft and Saturn rocket were positioned on the launching pad at Cape Kennedy. TIME Correspondent Donald Neff filed this report...
...other electromagnetic disturbances. The bombardment is not hazardous to terrestrial life, because most of the particles are absorbed by the atmosphere or deflected by the earth's magnetic field. But they could cause illness and perhaps death to space travelers shielded only by the thin walls of their spacecraft...