REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Moscow to learn about the Soviet space program. The real space center, Starry Town just outside Moscow, where the …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the spacecraft Voyager 1's rendezvous with the planet Saturn, in November, 1980. Writer went to Pasadena, California and spent …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the space shuttle, NASA's first reusable spacecraft with a large cargo bay for carrying, among other things, satellites to be …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the space shuttle, which takes off from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Mar. 17th. It is named Columbia and is…
REPORTER AT LARGE about findings after Viking 2 landed on Mars on Aug. 7, 1976. Three biologists, Vance Oyama Norman Horowitz and Gilbert V. Levin, …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Viking 1, the first of two spacecraft, equipped with instruments for detecting life, which landed on Mars in the summer of 1976. …
A REPORTER AT LARGE about living conditions in the space station, Skylab. The third crew to live in Skylab stayed the longest time, from Nov. 16, 1973 to …
A REPORTER AT LARGE about living conditions in the space station. Skylab. Skylab, built by NASA, was launched from Cape Kennedy on May 14, 1973 and the …
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PROFILE of Dr. Carl Sagan, the controversial Cornell professor of astronomy who believes there is life on Mars and is a member of the imaging team of …
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PROFILE of Dr. Carl Sagan, professor of astronomy at Cornell and the most ardent advocate of life on Mars. Dr. Sagan will be on the imaging team, whose …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the projected Apollo moon-landing, which may take place this autumn. The two astronauts may leave their spacecraft, in order to go …
REPORTER AT LARGE about scheduled manned moon-landings beginning presumably with Apollo 11, in mid-July. Detailed plans for the flight; the training the …