Word: surveyor
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...scientists provide plenty of comic relief. In addition to Anna and Kriebel, the group includes Emil Machal (Nathan Edwards '97) a surveyor who counts the stripes on Huml's wall and uses a number of strange contraptions to perform his duty. The project manager is Mr. Beck (Ian Simmons '98), who does little else but nervously march across the stage and exclaim "tomorrow I'm going fishing and that's that!" These non-sequiturs provide a nervous, inexplicable humor, but they seem to suggest more serious issues which elude this production...
...Mars Global Surveyor, which NASA will launch this week, is one of these new spacecraft. Tipping the scale at 2,337 lbs., it is less than half the weight of the 5,672-lb. Observer. Just as important, it cost only $135 million--milk money next to the Observer's near billion-dollar price...
...will meet in Washington to discuss a joint 2001 Mars mission that may make use of the shelved Russian rover. NASA itself has even more ambitious plans. With $100 million a year in Mars money promised by Congress, the space agency hopes to launch a pair of flights like Surveyor and Pathfinder every two years until...
BORN: May 27, 1955, Fort Lauderdale EDUCATION: Atlantic High School, diploma, 1974 FAMILY: Wife, Darlene Nimey; two children RELIGION: Orthodox Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Farmer; cattle rancher; construction surveyor POLITICAL CAREER: Candidate for Boynton Beach mayor, 1992 ADDRESS: 2710 North Seacrest Boulevard, Delray Beach...
...month or so after Global Surveyor is launched, a sister ship, the Mars Pathfinder, will follow it into space. Like NASA's unmanned Viking ships of the 1970s, Pathfinder will land on Mars' pockmarked surface. Unlike the Vikings, Pathfinder will have someplace to go once it gets there. After the pyramid-shaped payload touches down, its sides will open like the petals of a 3-ft.-tall flower to reveal a six-wheeled rover. Powered by solar cells and D-cell batteries, the 2-ft.-long robot vehicle is supposed to hum away from the landing pod, crawling...