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...working quarters; 2) the smaller Multiple Docking Adaptor, which serves as part of the passageway between the Orbital Workshop and the Apollo command ship and contains the complex control panel for Skylab's telescope; 3) the Apollo Telescope Mount, which is the world's first manned solar observatory in earth orbit and contains eight separate telescopes for different types of astronomical observations; and 4) the Airlock Module, which serves as a pressurization chamber for sorties out into space and is the nerve center for the entire station; it is equipped with thermal and electrical controls and extensive communications...
Richard Wilson, professor of Physics, said that the government should begin to finance nuclear and solar energy resource development now, because they will take longer to build than the public realizes. He said he is afraid we will run out of oil before these alternate sources are ready to take over...
...Duncan A. Lunan, they may well be true. Writing in Spaceflight, a publication of the British Interplanetary Society, Lunan, 27, says that the words are his translation of a message that may have been relayed to earth by a robot spacecraft from a highly advanced civilization far beyond the solar system. More astonishing, Lunan adds, the automatic vehicle may have been circling the moon for thousands of years, waiting patiently for earthlings to acquire the necessary know-how to contact...
...close enough to Jupiter in December to send back pictures and data about the atmosphere, strong magnetic field and puzzling red spot of the giant planet. Because the new craft, like Pioneer 10, may break the sun's gravitational grasp after passing Jupiter and soar out of the solar system, it too has been equipped with a message to any alien civilization that might someday intercept it. Like its twin, Pioneer will carry a plaque showing two humans (a nude male and female) and giving other information-in symbols that NASA hopes are universal-about the ship...
...however, that the U.S. must not allow itself to become so dependent on such a distant and unstable region. In his forthcoming message to Congress on the energy crisis, he is expected to ask for funds to develop other sources of energy-coal, shale-oil deposits, chemical substitutes and solar and atomic power-in a hurry. "The time to start worrying about Arab blackmail," says one veteran of the Middle Eastern oil business, "is when the Arabs tell you not to worry about blackmail...