Word: apollos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...works range in age from the approximately 26,000-year-old paintings in Namibia's Apollo 11 cave (discovered at the time of the Moon mission) to late 19th century Bushmen drawings. "Rock art represents an extraordinarily interesting and valuable heritage," says Neville Agnew, associate program director of the Los Angeles-based Getty Conservation Institute. "It's a page from the past." The art has "immense" value, says Campbell, not just because of its beauty but because "it comprises much of what we have left of both the creation of art and the development of early beliefs...
...usually enjoy your cartoons; I find them insightful and humorous. The cartoon of Monday May 5, however, "Why women weren't on the Apollo moon missions," offended me. Women today and throughout history have been denied the right to participate in innumerable endeavors, the space program included, because of stereotypical and wrong assumptions about their physiological needs...
...repasts with the rich. In Los Angeles he lunched at Italian trattoria Locanda Veneta with investment adviser Richard Salomon of Spears, Benzak, Salomon & Farrell, and turned up at dinner at the very chic Nobu in New York City with real estate developer Jerry Speyer and dealmaker Leon Black of Apollo Advisors. As he casts about for a new career, he will serve as a patron of the arts in Manhattan, chairing a Municipal Art Society awards dinner in March and a gala for PEN, a writers' group, in April...
...before long never came. As the nation's interest in space travel waned in the post-Apollo years, Washington's willingness to bankroll every grand scheme the space agency came up with vanished. By the late 1970s, NASA--once the trust-fund baby of a doting Congress--had to be choosy about where it spent its money; for the most part, it didn't choose Mars...
JEFFREY KLUGER is well qualified to write about the new breed of smaller, simpler Mars ships set to begin launching this week. He was the co-author, with former astronaut Jim Lovell, of Lost Moon, the book that served as the basis for the popular 1995 film Apollo 13. Kluger knows that when it comes to designing spacecraft, less is indeed more. "NASA engineers who worked in the old lunar program liked to point out that an Apollo spacecraft had 5.6 million individual parts," he recalls. "Even if the ship functioned with 99.9% efficiency, you could still expect...