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Word: journeyer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earth has shrunk to a bright dot of light against the background of stars in the eternal night of outer space. Looking back, the crew members are filled with a sense of isolation, a feeling that will never quite leave them during the 280-day outbound leg of their journey. A busy schedule provides some distraction. The space travelers perform scientific experiments, practice taking shelter against solar-flare radiation, tend vegetables in their hydroponic greenhouses, exercise vigorously for several hours each day and tap into digital libraries for music, light reading matter and courses in Martian meteorology and geology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Onward to Mars | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

FOOTNOTE: *The Hohmann ellipse is an ideal trajectory requiring a minimum of energy for a journey between any two planets, named after the German engineer who calculated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Onward to Mars | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

...despite strong opposition from those who fear that a manned Mars trip would soak up funds needed for social programs, unmanned scientific space probes and military projects, among other things. Democratic Senator Spark Matsunaga of Hawaii has even written a book, The Mars Project, that strongly advocates the space journey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Onward to Mars | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

Another possible hazard on a long space journey has its source on planet earth: human nature. Soviet flights have demonstrated that performance levels begin to decrease as the days stretch into months. Cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko, whose 326 days aboard the space station Mir set a space endurance record last year, was down to only two hours of productive work a day toward the end of his eleven-month flight and had become decidedly peevish. "Leave me alone," he once snapped to mission control. "I have a lot of work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Onward to Mars | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

Time for work. Low scudding clouds threatened the immediate appearance of Jupiter Pluvius, so I took the subway. New Yorkers commonly describe a ride on their beloved rapid-transit system as a journey through Hades, and mine this day was no exception. Heading downtown, I boarded one of the system's older trains -- creaking, crotchety and covered with indescribable graffiti. I looked closer at one cluster of squiggles, spray-painted by the ubiquitous Taki 183. Was it . . .? Could it be . . .? Yes, there in Babylonian script were the opening words of the Gilgamesh Epic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Gods Are Crazy | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

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