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Blocked by the shroud, the spacecraft's solar panels did not open; they could not recharge the spacecraft's batteries, which soon went dead...
...failures are to be expected in so difficult a venture. A second spacecraft, Mariner D, is ready to go, and will be fired before the "window" (the favorable time when Mars is in an accessible position) closes on Nov. 30. If Mariner D fails too, Mars and its secrets will be safe for a while. Another window will not open until December...
...attempt to explore Mars got off to a poor start last week. The Mariner C spacecraft, launched at Cape Kennedy, did not jettison its 300-lb. wind-shroud, and the extra weight kept it from attaining the 25,600 m.p.h. speed necessary to reach the red planet...
...left Palewski with the words: "I have to go to the cosmonauts immediately." That explanation was at least partly true. After only 16 orbits, the Voshkod had returned to earth, possibly because of a mechanical failure but perhaps on order from the Presidium, which presumably did not want the spacecraft, with all its publicity potential, circling overhead while Khrushchev was being dealt with...
Magnetic Memory. Haystack's radio antenna will also be the most versatile anywhere in the free world. By changing transmitters and receivers it can be used as a superradar, radio telescope, or a radio transmitter to talk to and listen to communications satellites or spacecraft probing the planets. Haystack is so sensitive, and its tasks so enormous, that its operation could never be entrusted to mere men. The antenna beam will be pointed by a Univac 490, which will be able to call on a magnetic memory with a complete astronomical almanac for the sun, moon and eight planets...