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Technically, a space weapon is defined as one which completes at least one full orbit of the earth, so neither of the new weapons actually violates the treaty. Even so, they probably represent intermediate stages in the development of full-fledged space weapons aimed at earth...
...important thing to realize is that the technical problems that stood in the way of space weapons have been solved. Ever since the late 1950's, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. have been able to launch fairly heavy objects into orbit. Until recently, however, it was thought inconceivable that warheads could be delivered accurately in orbital flight. Now both countries appear to have devised such methods...
...vast quantities of information about the planet's atmosphere, temperature and thermal and magnetic properties. Mariner 4 successfully transmitted pictures of the Martian surface and continued to operate for more than three years, sending information from distances as great as 200 million miles as it went on into orbit around the sun. Yet all this was accomplished, Van Allen points out, at a cost of less than 2% of the NASA budget...
...Mariner shot to Mars, now scrapped because of the lack of funds, and following it with five additional Mariner-type flights to Mars and Venus by 1976. In addition, he has asked for the revival of a relatively modest Voyager program that would place two sophisticated craft in orbit around Mars in 1973 and send two additional orbiters and two soft-landers to the same planet aboard a single Saturn 5 rocket in 1975. Time is already beginning to run out for some of the scientific teams so painstakingly assembled for the U.S. space program. On the day that Saturn...
Ceausescu no doubt wanted the presidency partly because it would give him more stature when traveling abroad. It would also make it easier for him to visit non-Communist countries. He has gradually moved Rumania away from Moscow's orbit and toward closer ties with the West, and last week publicly criticized Russia for hampering trade relations in retaliation for Rumania's independent stance...