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...Houston, it was not Mars but the moon that was on the minds of nearly 700 scientists who gathered at the Manned Spacecraft Center for the third lunar science conference. For most, it was a highly profitable trip. The conferees exchanged reams of data from last year's flight of Apollo 14 and received more recent information from the instruments taken to the moon by the Apollo 15 astronauts. Among other things, the scientists were told that the moon, as measured by temperature probes placed in the lunar surface, seems to be giving off heat at twice the rate...
...NASA and the depressed aerospace industry. NASA Administrator James Fletcher estimates that work on the shuttle will restore about one-fourth of the 200,000 space-related jobs that have disappeared in the past five years. There will also be a resurgence of activity at Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center and the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, which will share responsibility for the program...
Convinced by the findings of the Apollo missions that the moon is lifeless, the earth's two superpowers were concentrating on the next target of opportunity: Mars. A pair of spacecraft, America's Mariner 9 and Russia's Mars 2, were in orbit around the Red Planet, seeking out conditions and features that might support life and radioing their findings back to earth across more than 90 million miles of space. A capsule ejected from Mars 2 lay on the Martian surface, possibly equipped with instruments that could sample the soil and the atmosphere and detect the presence of life...
...same time, scientists were readying Pioneer F, a spacecraft that will take off in February on a 600-to 700-day journey to Jupiter, which could harbor life?or the precursors of life ?in its atmosphere. In 1973, if all goes well, Pioneer will send back pictures and information while it flies by the largest of the solar system's nine planets. Mars is also in for more scrutiny. The Soviet Union will probably launch Mars probes in both 1973 and 1975, and two U.S. Viking spacecraft are scheduled to land life detectors on the Martian surface...
...subside, the giant duster will probably obscure much of the surface for weeks to come. Faced with the growing possibility that the Martian skies will not clear up completely during Mariner's planned three-month photography mission, JPL controllers fed a new temporary "shooting script" into the spacecraft's onboard computer, thus enabling Mariner's twin TV cameras to look for holes in the cloud cover...