Word: apollos
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...because I didn’t want anyone seeing me. ” He got his big break during the Freshman Talent Show, where he decided to perform for the first time in public. That was just the beginning. He has placed in the top of the past two Apollo Nights, but he remains modest. “If you interacted with him, you would just not have any idea of so much of the stuff he’s involved with and he would never tell you,” close friend Alison E. Cohen...
...first encouraging sign that NASA means business is the sensible hardware it's envisioning for the lunar portion of the moon-Mars program. The new vehicles are based on proven--if souped up--Apollo technology, with an orbiter that looks a lot like the old Apollo command module and a lander that resembles the familiar spindly lunar module. The new lander could carry three or more crew members down to the surface and drive them around the lunar landscape, doubling as a sort of extraterrestrial pickup truck. Crews would live for up to 180 days at a time in trailer...
...NASA is returning to what it does best. The hardware and crew for the lunar base will be sent into orbit atop comparatively reliable, disposable boosters, based on the sturdy and powerful engines of the shuttle and long-extinct Saturn boosters. The lunar orbital vehicles will be souped-up Apollo command modules and the landers will be similarly updated lunar excursion modules - the lovable, buglike LEMs. Astronauts on Apollos 15, 16 and 17 already showed that lunar rovers could be safely driven across the moon's surface, providing another proven technology that would be essential to a lunar community...
Heard anything from America's manned moon base lately? You know, the one that was supposed to have gotten under way in the 1970s, just a handful of years after the Apollo 11 landing? No? What about news on the upcoming Mars landing, the one President George H.W. Bush called for in 1989 and should be deep in development by now? Not a word, right? And you're not likely to hear anything about that either...
...Still, there's no denying that this time NASA is showing both imagination and realism. That, for an agency that has fought so long to regain its Apollo mojo, is truly something. Fourteen years and a couple hundred billion dollars from now, we'll see what...