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After four months of tense anticipation by the aerospace industry, Washington last week chose a contractor for the nation's largest space project yet. To start work on the Apollo spacecraft, which is to carry three men to the moon and back, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration gave a $400 million initial order to Los Angeles' North American Aviation...
...well start from space. The invaders most to be feared will not be little green Venusians riding in flying saucers or any of the other intelligent monsters imagined by science fictioneers. Less spectacular but more insidious, the invaders may be alien microorganisms riding unnoticed on homebound, earth-built spacecraft. If they can thrive and multiply on terrestrial organic matter, it is probable that no earthly creature, including man, will be safe from their attack...
Moon Anteater. Lederberg is working for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on a no-return device that will look for traces of life on the moon. Carefully sterilized before launching to protect the moon from the earth's organisms, Lederberg's spacecraft will be a sort of mechanical anteater with a sticky tongue for licking up lunar dust and placing it under a microscope to be examined by a television camera. If the camera reports to earth that the dust contains spores that may have the power of coming to dangerous life, the first manned voyage...
...will have enough power to orbit a ten-ton satellite around the earth or dump a four-ton load of instruments on the moon. By 1966, an advanced model Saturn, boosted by two 1,500,000-lb. North American F-1 engines, is programed to put a three-man spacecraft called Apollo into orbit around the moon. In the meantime, the U.S. hopes to start landing instruments on the moon next year with an improved version of the Atlas missile; it will have a liquid hydrogen engine in its second stage, match the power of Russia...
...series of propaganda triumphs in space. Now it is increasingly difficult for the U.S. to catch up. But despite its defeats, the U.S. can and will continue to do sound scientific research in space. It has been doing this for years, learning more with small, numerous and deftly instrumented spacecraft than the Russians have with their monsters. Such work impresses scientists, and adds immeasurably to the world's store of knowledge, but the great world public probably could not care less about such discoveries as the energy of cosmic rays or the number of electrons in space. Only...