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...mission to another planet to date. Back in 1975, twin spacecraft, each consisting of an orbiter and a lander, were sent off to Mars. A key objective: to determine if the Red Planet harbors life. After going into Martian orbit ten months later, the mated spacecraft split apart. Their spider-legged landers touched down on the surface, while the orbiters continued patrolling overhead, mapping the planet with their cameras and acting as relay stations for the instrument packages below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Farewell to the Red Planet | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

...front means more than politics though. Easyriders is honest about every controversial topic--sex, 130 mph motorized tricycles, farting and even death. A member of the staff, Ken Stambaugh, was killed in a motorcycle accident a few days before publication, and Easyriders' lead columnist, Spider, eulogized him in this fashion: "I didn't get to know the man--he'd just been with us a few weeks. He was working on his S.U. carb on the shoulder of the road near our firetrap the other night when a broad in a cage went off the road, smackin...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Three American Magazines | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...short, Easyriders is consistently accessible. Another passage from the magazine's James Reston, Spider: "I'm about to pay my taxes, folks, so I'll strap another one on ya. The Feds just gave a professor $100,000 to figure out how pigeons remember things. Shit, I've always wanted to know that--haven...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Three American Magazines | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...Spider John Koemer--The Idler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jan. 10-Jan. 16 | 1/10/1980 | See Source »

...Spider John Koemer--The Idler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jan. 10-Jan. 16 | 1/10/1980 | See Source »

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