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...will ever be understood fully, of course, is open to question. Before long, however, they will certainly be understood better. Galileo could be functioning until late 1999, with more than 20 passes through the Jovian system still to come. Next fall NASA plans to launch the new Cassini-Huygens spacecraft on a seven-year odyssey to Saturn. In addition to making at least 36 orbital slalom runs through five of Saturn's inner moons, the ship will fire off a probe that will puncture Titan's cloud cover, parachute to its surface and send environmental readings back to Earth...
...other ships could be on the way to join them in the outer solar system. NASA is tentatively planning several new Europa probes, including one that will photograph its surface and take radar soundings beneath its crust. If the radar picks up the telltale echoes of liquid water, another spacecraft would be sent to land on Europa and release a heated probe designed to melt through the ice layer and look for signs of life in the seas below...
...voices. They were controlled." As for Sawyer, he still believes Do and Ti's religion "makes the most sense of anything else I've heard." Of his dead compatriots, he says, "I think they're outside their bodies. I believe that 100%. I suspect they might be on a spacecraft somewhere...
That revelation, Bell reported on his elaborate and well-attended Website, "practically blew away my disbelieving side." It seemed to have had a similar effect on the Heaven's Gate cult members, who surmised that the spacecraft would be their vehicle for reaching "the next level...
...professor a no-show, the cult members were not dissuaded. When news of their suicide was reported, says Bell, "I started getting a lot of messages saying, 'Art Bell, you killed 39 people.' It's important to understand that the only person who ever said there was a spacecraft following Hale-Bopp was Courtney Brown...