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...engine nozzle. Things move a lot faster with such a system, but the engine as a whole is heavier and cruder and the big reactor causes jitters among environmentalists, who would just as soon see nothing nuclear aboard any rocket that could blow up before it leaves the atmosphere. Astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz says a plasma-propulsion rocket being developed in NASA's labs will go faster still, getting man to Mars in 40 days. Though a decade or more from realization, it uses magnets and abundant gas like hydrogen to produce acceleration...
...true too that the moon may be an appealing launchpad because lunar gravity, just one-sixth that of Earth's, makes payloads a lot lighter and launching them a lot easier. But things aren't quite that simple. An Apollo astronaut confessed that after his lunar module landed on the moon, he had the sobering realization that before he could return home, he would again have to get the ship moving very, very fast. As any astronaut knows, the two most challenging tasks in operating a spacecraft are starting and stopping it. If it's possible to avoid additional stops...
...always wanted to be an astronaut. And write a novel. The Great American Novel, of course. That?...
...only if Bush is the astronaut. How about Pluto? Nicholas Mellen Los Angeles, Calif...
...suffering from game-development gridlock. Not even Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo's legendary creative director and gaming deity?Miyamoto created Mario and Zelda?has been able to break the slump. Miyamoto's latest attempt to launch a revolutionary franchise was a bizarre entry called Pikmin, in which users play an astronaut stranded on a remote planet who must enlist the aid of the local aliens (who look like ambulatory onion sprouts) to rebuild his ship?all set to a country-and-western music soundtrack. Pikmin failed to take off, forcing Nintendo to rely heavily on recycled fare such as Donkey Kong...