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...easy to forget the moon. The images of NASA's celebrated lunar landings are lasered onto the national retina, and perhaps no two things are better remembered than the sister ships that made the trips: the cone-shaped Apollo command module and the leggy lunar lander. If NASA has its way, those kinds of spacecraft will be flying again soon. They will not, however, be your daddy's moonships...
...back on the cutting edge of energy technology. Unfortunately, it seems that President Bush has answered the praiseworthy, yet ultimately powerless, calls for an energy initiative on the scale of the Manhattan Project—frequent refrains of Thomas Friedman of The New York Times and the Apollo Alliance of Washington, D.C.—with an empty, echoing, “Yeah, that is a good idea.” Bush has yet to demonstrate a willingness to advance any immediate proposals on energy. Instead, he has put President 2025’s money where...
...more than 47,000 m.p.h., which it will achieve by playing off Jupiter's gravity in a 2007 flyby, New Horizons will be the fastest spacecraft in history (it's no slouch even now: a mere nine hours after launch, it will zip past the Moon; it took Apollo astronauts three days to get that...
...Kogan’s ability to meld such disparate disciplines in one lecture is what keeps his audiences riveted. Kogan argues in an interview that the combination of music and medicine should not be as uncommon as it is, stressing that the two have long been linked—Apollo was the Greek god of both disciplines and, in many pre-industrial societies, shamanic figures use music and dance to heal. Kogan offers George Gershwin as a modern case study, describing the composer’s young life as “a childhood that could have gone...
JAMES LOVELL 1968 One of three Apollo 8 astronauts, pioneers on the epic quest for the moon...