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...possible to make fuel, air and water on-site, it is also possible to grow food. Mars has plenty of soil, and if chemical samplers like those aboard Spirit prove that Mars dust isn't poisonous, it would be a relatively straightforward job to assemble a greenhouse-like enclosure, raise the temperature, pump up the atmosphere and plant a few seeds. Donald Henninger, a NASA chief scientist, has identified 13 crops that could thrive in a space habitat, including wheat, potatoes, soybeans and salad greens. "You can take stored food along, but how long does it last?" he asks...
...larger reactor to superheat traditional propellant and blast it out the engine nozzle. Things move a lot faster with such a system, but the engine as a whole is heavier and cruder and the big reactor causes jitters among environmentalists, who would just as soon see nothing nuclear aboard any rocket that could blow up before it leaves the atmosphere. Astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz says a plasma-propulsion rocket being developed in NASA's labs will go faster still, getting man to Mars in 40 days. Though a decade or more from realization, it uses magnets and abundant gas like...
...series of increasingly sophisticated unmanned Mars probes that they hope will culminate in a joint U.S.-Soviet manned mission to the Red Planet by the year 2010 ... While the American space program has been crippled since the Challenger disaster in January 1986, Soviet cosmonauts have been gaining invaluable experience aboard the Salyut and Mir space stations. And though U.S. astronauts are scheduled to return to space this September, NASA administrator James Fletcher concedes that the Soviets are now "way ahead of us in manned flight." If each nation goes its own way, he predicts, the Soviets would land humans...
...them. Cornell advertises the small class size and personal attention of their J-Term courses. But because we currently enjoy relatively smaller class sizes, a bustling urban campus and because our study abroad program is not prepared to take on the task of organizing so many students traveling aboard at one time—currently less than 100 students study abroad in a given term—Harvard’s J-Term would not provide such benefits to the student body...
...rest are semiconscious. Abdi Salan lies amid the sprawl of bodies on the boat's floor, thinks about his family and friends in Mogadishu, and prepares to die. When Abdi Salan's boat was discovered on Oct. 19, after 15 days at sea, with 13 corpses and 15 survivors aboard and an unknown number lost along the way, the story threw Italy into a spasm of soul-searching. The mayor of Rome organized a funeral at the capital's historic city hall, where 13 coffins were draped in the blue-and-white Somali flag. But until now, the full story...