May 10 1970
From The Space Library
In second attempt to test validity of Einstein theory of relativity [see April 30], JPL astronomer Dr. John D. Anderson and Cal Tech astronomer Dr. Duane O. Muhleman measured radio signal from Mariner VII just before it passed almost directly behind sun. During April 30 attempt, astronomers measured Mariner VI signal. (Sullivan, NYT, 5/10/70; NASA Release 70-62)
Dr. Robert Jastrow, Director of NASA's Institute for Space Studies, discussed eventual colonization of outer planets in New York Times Magazine: While most Homo sapiens would remain on earth in world of future, small percentage-"restless, inquisitive, innovative, continually seeking out challenges and testing the limits of the environment"-would "move out to become a small, hardy population on Mars. Within a few decades of the year 2000, a pioneering band of men-and women-will be living on Mars.... Children will be born on Mars. Later, the spacefarers will go beyond Mars and beyond the solar system. Some day they will find the earth and its debilitating gravitational pull as difficult a place in which to survive as today's land-adapted men find the water out of which the ancestral fishes emerged 300 million years ago. Eventually they will constitute a new species, evolved out of Homo sapiens, but linked to the ancestral planet only by sentiment." (NYT Magazine, 5/10/70, 30)
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