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A place to stand for Mohole

DEC 01, 1965
Physics Today

National Steel and Shipbuilding Company of San Diego has won the $30‐million contract for the Project Mohole drilling platform. (Selection was made by the National Science Foundation.) Construction is scheduled to begin early next year, and it is possible that the first drillings at the primary site north of the Hawaiian Island of Maui will begin in 1968.

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