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...ostensibly occurred in 1947 on the Plains of San Agustin. One viewer of that show, Gerald Anderson, responded quickly to an 800 number flashed on the screen, protesting that the re-enactment of the event was inaccurate. For one thing, he told the operator, the shape of the crashed spacecraft was wrong. And how did he know? Anderson, now a resident of Springfield, Mo., explained that he moved to New Mexico with his family in 1947, when he was five, and that on a rock-hunting outing on the Plains of San Agustin, the group had come across the wrecked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DID ALIENS REALLY LAND? | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

...historic events of this type are symbolic. Scientists knew long before they put a man on the moon that it would be possible. Why not scrap the project after the blueprints for the spacecraft and the mission plan had been written and all the key calculations had been completed? In part, it is because one cannot know with certainty whether something is possible until it has been done. Theory stands upon tenuous soil where there are not facts to back...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Groping Toward Humanity | 5/23/1997 | See Source »

American astronaut Jerry Linenger was under no illusion that he was flying the world's most reliable spacecraft. He was nonetheless startled not long ago when it suddenly burst into flame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME TO JUMP SHIP? | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

...when I said Ti and Do had a lot of depression, I didn't mean they walked around with their heads hanging low and with a glum look on their faces. In fact, it was amazing how quickly they could appreciate why the spacecraft hadn't come: because they and/or the students or the world weren't ready yet. "SAWYER" Westchester County, New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 5, 1997 | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

None of these proposed missions will come cheap. Even with NASA's new commitment to building smaller, less expensive spacecraft, interplanetary ships still cost at least $200 million each. Planetologists, however, insist that the potential discoveries could be well worth the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIFE IN A DEEP FREEZE? | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

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