Word: venuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Remember Venus...
...amphibian attraction of the early 1900s. The picture takes Annette, who is described as "half woman and half fish," from Sydney, Australia to London, where she makes a much publicized 26-mile swim down the Thames; then to the New York Hippodrome, where she is billed as a diving Venus in tank extravaganzas; and finally to Hollywood, where she is badly injured during the filming of an underwater picture. For romance, there is a conventional (and fictional) triangle involving the Hippodrome's impresario (David Brian) and Annette's manager, James Sullivan (Victor Mature), whom she married in real...
Approach with Caution. Astronauts who plot long journeys in space assume that such dull, preliminary steps have already been taken. Later steps are more fun. To reach the moon from an artificial orbit is elementary stuff; voyages to a planet take more figuring. One plan for a trip to Venus, for instance, uses space ships from an orbit around the earth to establish a base on the moon (see diagram). A special ship then takes off from the moon at a moment when Venus is considerably behind both earth and moon on its shorter and faster orbit around...
Such larger bodies as Mars and Venus, both powerful gravitational whirlpools, should be approached with caution. But Mars and Venus both have atmospheres, which the space men plan to use as frictional buffers. Their ships would circle in the atmospheric fringes until they were moving slowly enough to land. An alternate plan: cruise warily around the planet and send small space-dinghies down to explore its surface...
...Venus has an atmosphere that is mostly carbon dioxide and is always blanketed in brilliant white clouds. Most astronomers think its hidden surface is too hot to support the "carbon-cycle" life that exists on the earth. Mars is the best bet, but it is not too promising. U.S. Astronomer Percival Lowell, who died in 1916, spent 30 years studying the "canals" on Mars. He was convinced (and convinced a large public) that they were attempts by Martians to irrigate their arid planet with water from its polar snowcaps. Modern astronomers believe that Lowell was describing more than meets science...