Word: apollos
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...British Virgin Islands. I went expecting to meet a bunch of Richie Rich types just looking for a thrill ride. Instead, I found a group of hardy pioneers, millionaires sure, but idealists who dreamed as kids of going into space. Mark, for instance, grew up during the Apollo years, but got rich from an IPO of his software-mapping firm. Now he's back to his first love. "It's not the thrill of acceleration for me," he says. "It's the experience of looking down to see the Earth, the experience of zero gravity. It would be crazy...
...Founders have, in fact, become quite "evangelical" about space, says Londoner Trevor Beattie, a self-described "space nut" who has a scrapbook from his youth of the Armstrong's moon walk and the Apollo 13. "You'll get a sense of wonderment from everybody here," says the 47-year-old ad man. "You've got a bunch of believers who are going to make this happen. It's a lifelong dream for people." David Horowitz, a 55-year-old investment manager from Irvine, California, couldn't agree more. "It's changed me. We're doing things we should have been...
...lopped-off nose cone. The three-seater, fueled by hydrogen peroxide (yup, the common household disinfectant, though in a highly purified form, with a touch of kerosene) appears based on an old Delta Clipper design done for NASA. Musk's SpaceX designers favor the NASA look too--of old Apollo capsules--but that translates into ocean splashdowns...
...final scene is tantalizingly ambiguous, either a miraculous resurrection or nothing more than 15 years of hiding. John Kuntz—formerly Autolycus—presides over the concluding action as the oracle of Apollo, becoming both a petty thief and a vehicle of divine truth. In “A Winter’s Tale,” deception—often the same as the ability to tell a convincing story—and divinity are not so different. In this production, one or the other may have been on display at a given moment...
...What Olympic athlete would you be most excited to meet in Beijing? I vote for Apollo Anton Ono, even though he’s technically a winter Olympian...