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There's nothing terribly remarkable about Building 29 at the Johnson Space Center in Houston until you consider that that's where they will be storing Mars--or at least a pretty good facsimile of it. Spread out inside the sprawling structure will soon be a dead-ringer Mars base, complete with habitat modules, an extraterrestrial greenhouse and even a ground cover of volcanic dust shipped in from Hawaii--about as close as you can get to real Martian dirt without actually visiting the planet. Astronauts training for a Mars mission could spend up to 600 days in this little...
...directly from Earth orbit to Mars, and it would probably be simpler and less costly," says Larry Bell, space architect at the University of Houston. "Some of us don't see the necessity of going to the moon first...
...make a return to the moon pay--and maybe even save the environment back home. If you could set up automated lunar factories to extract the silicon and turn it into solar cells, says David Criswell, director of the Institute for Space Systems Operations at the University of Houston, the moon could become a solar power station, beaming clean energy via microwaves back to Earth. "If you want to provide sustainable energy for 10 billion people by 2050," he says, "there is no other...
...actions the people of Europe are responding to. When I speak to my friends abroad, I find myself spending a lot of time defending the U.S. The difference between my friends abroad and my right-leaning friends here is that those abroad at least listen. Wahrena Pfeister Houston...
...dubious distinction. The hapless ARMY BLACK KNIGHTS needed a win to avoid becoming the first team in NCAA history to finish with an 0-13 record. Army was routed 34-6, thus making football history--and giving Navy (8-4) a boost on its way to the Dec. 30 Houston Bowl...