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NASA offers Mars trips

NASA's latest aeronautics and space transportation technology will be showcased at Ames Research Center during the center's first open house on Sept. 20.

Thousands of Bay Area residents are expected to attend the festivities from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Activities include tours inside the world's largest wind tunnel, a fly-over by NASA's high- altitude SR-71 Blackbird aircraft, a demonstration of a remote-controlled Mars rover in action and an opportunity to meet NASA astronauts.

Visitors will be able to take a seven-minute virtual trip across the surface of Mars; participate in interactive Mars exploration using the 360-degree images recently returned by the Pathfinder mission; watch a demonstration of the Marsokhod Mars rover in action; view both a lunar rock and a Mars rock with possible evidence of ancient life; and view the flight simulators where astronauts and pilots conduct their training sessions.

Gunmen sought

Sunnyvale police are looking for two men who barged into an apartment Sept. 11 and held five residents at gun- and knife-point while they ransacked the home and made off with an unknown amount of cash. Two of the victims, who were forced to lie on the floor at the 639 Caliente Drive apartment, were cut for refusing to follow orders, a police spokesman said.

The incident occurred at 8:45 a.m.

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This article appeared in the Sunnyvale Sun, September 17, 1997.
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