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Paddle Wheels for Power. Oddest-looking satellite yet is one scheduled for launching next month by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to test the possibility of sending a probe to the neighborhood of Venus. There is no point in such a probe unless radio communication can be maintained across 25 million miles, the nearest approach of Venus. Transmission over this distance requires a lot of power. Chemical batteries are too feeble. Nuclear-powered batteries are promising but have not been developed sufficiently. The best bet is solar cells, which capture energy from sunlight...
...Choreographer Béjart) was transformed by turns into a snarling tiger ("His loins," says the program, "are heavy with solitude"), an arm-flapping eagle, a scared rat ("His heart is full of holes, like a cheese"). In a later scene he encountered assorted characters, including Romeo and Venus, who stepped from a giant pearl shell in a flesh-colored leotard. At one point he joined Death in a game of cards, with Eurydice's midriff serving as table. The deafening last scene found Orpheus hanging by his heels from the flies...
Also unearthed was a "Venus" stone carving, which may have been related to some sort of "fertility cult." Unlike most "Venuses" of this type, which are usually of very obese women with gross stomachs and breasts, this specimen is more slender and graceful...
...Atlas, but with two additional stages. Vega has a section of the Vanguard for its second stage. Centaur's second stage will burn hydrogen, whose high energy, according to NASA's Dr. Abe Silverstein, "will greatly increase our capability to send a mission to Mars and Venus." ¶ Most advanced project in the works: a five-stage job with a 6,000,000-lb. thrust first stage, which will be capable of carrying a man to the moon and bringing him back. In combination with a nuclear-powered upper-stage rocket, it should take...
...Soon we will be able to travel to Mars, to Pluto, to Venus," a professor told his Russian students. "Are there any questions?" A student in the back of the class raised his hand. ''When," he asked, "can we travel to Vienna...