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...foothills near Pasadena, who designed the spacecraft and control its mission. They fear that U.S. ambitions in interplanetary space may be rapidly dwindling, but the President announced the inclusion of $40 million in start-up funding in the fiscal 1982 budget for VOIR. That is an acronym for the Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar mission, a new project that had been eagerly sought by J.P.L., along with an unmanned probe to intercept Halley's comet when it returns in 1986. So far the U.S. has refused to authorize the tantalizing mission to the comet. Said J.P.L. Director Bruce Murray after...
...American lake." But he and others fear that with the dearth of new programs, the U.S. could lose ground-especially in relation to the U.S.S.R., which space experts, like military men, are concerned about. Although the Soviets have not fared well in their unmanned explorations, except for landings on Venus, they are surpassing the U.S. in manned space projects. By launching men into orbit every few months, they have accumulated nearly twice as many man-hours in earth orbit as the U.S. Warns Senator Harrison Schmitt, a geologist and former astronaut soon to become chairman of the Senate...
...elaborate, eagle-headed sword and distributed tuberoses to reporters. His costume was no less vivid: a leopardskin coat and red barrenita cap. Answering questions in French, Spanish and Catalan, the painter declared, "I am monarchist, Catholic and Roman," but without a political creed "because nobody knows whether the Venus de Milo was a fascist or a Communist." When pressed about a Catalan government investigation into his affairs, he insisted, "I like to pay taxes." Dali then reiterated a previously announced intention to begin a still vague 22-mile-long project in Rumania and revealed another plan: to remarry his willful...
...spokesman for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in Washington, D.C., said yesterday other space projects, including a $600 million Venus probe, have consumed funds the $250 million Haley's comet program would require. The OMB will make its final decision in January when it completes the final budget for the 1982 fiscal year...
...growing interest in exobiology: "Radiation and the Origin of the Gene." A key point was that radiation may have been the trigger for the combination of the first DNA molecules. Eventually some 300 more papers would follow, including a particularly brilliant bit of deduction about the planet Venus. At the time, many scientists still regarded Venus as a kind of sister planet of the earth with a benign climate. But radio emissions from the planet were hinting at puzzlingly high temperatures. Sagan pointed out that a Venusian atmosphere of carbon dioxide and water vapor would trap solar heat, create...