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Some time in mid-December, if all goes well, the spacecraft Mariner II will skim within a scant 10,000 miles of Venus. Like a great mechanical bug, it will point its electronic eyes at the cloud-covered planet; and then, after a brief, 30-minute look, it will soar past to lose itself in orbit around the sun. But before it cruises beyond radio range of earth. Mariner should report back to its human creators and tell them more than man has ever known before about his planetary neighbor, the heavenly body that most resembles earth in orbit, size...
...Canaveral's Launch Pad No. 12, Mariner II also seemed doomed. The countdown was halted three times to allow technicians to examine malfunctions. When the spacecraft finally rose above its flaming tail and disappeared into the warm darkness, preliminary tracking data from Johannesburg indicated that Mariner might miss Venus by some 600,000 mile's-too large an error to be corrected by its mid-course steering motor...
...offer mankind, and we spent our own resources trying; the space promoters can offer no better excuse for their wild financial orgies than such vacuous blurbs as "space is the future of man," and it costs them nothing to laugh off a fizzle such as the recent $20 million Venus fiasco...
...seasons and the moon on the tides, it was not illogical to believe that the five visible planets of the solar system had their own varied and subtle influences on man. Over the millennia, a system was evolved, assigning certain characteristics to the cosmic forces (Venus, love; Mars, will, etc.) and charting their position in twelve divisions of the year called Signs and Houses. The relation of these elements at the instant of birth (what Sign was rising, which planets were in which Signs and Houses, etc.), astrologers believe, predisposes the individual in certain directions, which in turn will...
That little mishap cost the taxpayers perhaps $20 million. But that is how the money goes in space. Canaveral's spacemen hope to try again before Sept. 10. After that date, Venus will have sailed through the heavens beyond the point where mere 20th century man will deem it feasible to pursue her again until...