DESIGNATED DRIVERS

Space cadets need not apply for the job of remotely driving NASA's "Sojourner" rover once it reaches the surface of Mars next July. There's already a pool of "three or four" experienced rover operators at JPL who learned their stuff developing the 22-pound teleoperated robot. Not that the task will...

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