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Week of 10 December 1999 Vol. III, No. 17 BU Yesterday Visitors from Commonwealth Avenue. With the apparent loss of the Mars Polar Lander this week and the disappearance of the Mars Climate Orbiter in September, we were reminded of the rocky beginning of the U.S. space program in the 1950s. This picture was taken at the Museum of Science on February 12, 1958, just a week after the Vanguard Test Satellite -- we assume the gentleman is showing off a model of the device -- crashed in a test launch from Cape Canaveral. Nevertheless, the three representatives of the BU Women Graduates' Club, including COM Professor Emerita Carol Hills (COM'49) in the middle, appear thoroughly optimistic about the outcome of the space race. The photo doesn't identify the occasion of their terrestrial visit. Boston University Photo Services