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...astronauts as explorers, sublime pioneers who push ever farther into dark and unexplored territory. We understood when Roger Chaffee, Gus Grissom and Ed White died in a fire on Apollo I’s launchpad; they were paving the way to the moon. But today, NASA’s job has become far less glamorous, even mundane; astronauts either deploy ultra-secret military satellites or deliver supplies to the international space station...
...Achilles heel has always been liftoff, and the dangers posed by massive fuel load involved. Reentry has, of course, always been a difficult part of the space program. But this is, in fact, our first fatal accident on reentry. Apollo 13 is remembered as our most difficult ever reentry, but the ship and crew survived. The Soviets lost a crew on reentry in 1970 after an oxygen leak that caused the cosmonauts to suffocate on the way down. Reentry is a very difficult process, but the Russians mastered it in 1961 and we did the same a few years later...
...like training for what you might do if your car went over a cliff - in some situations there simply isn't anything you can do. One irony, though, is that NASA hadn't trained astronauts to deal with the sort of quadruple failure that occurred in Apollo 13, because they assumed that such a scenario would result in certain death. But the astronauts survived...
...version should be excessive, sensual, tumultuous, colorful. That was my view of urban India in that period." After a five-week run in London, the show will go to the U.S., first to Ann Arbor, Michigan, then New York, where Columbia University will present it at Harlem's legendary Apollo Theater. Rushdie, who now lives in New York, loves the idea of his work being staged there. "For the RSC to go to Harlem is an important cultural event in itself, but there are resonances there with Midnight's Children. Race relations, the clash of cultures, questions of identity...
After coming into contact with lunar dust from Apollo 12, Frondel was quarantined for two weeks along with the astronauts because of fears that alien organisms might have infected them...