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...Jeffrey Kluger. With reporting by Dick Thompson/Washington
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...JEFFREY KLUGER is well qualified to write about the new breed of smaller, simpler Mars ships set to begin launching this week. He was the co-author, with former astronaut Jim Lovell, of Lost Moon, the book that served as the basis for the popular 1995 film Apollo 13. Kluger knows that when it comes to designing spacecraft, less is indeed more. "NASA engineers who worked in the old lunar program liked to point out that an Apollo spacecraft had 5.6 million individual parts," he recalls. "Even if the ship functioned with 99.9% efficiency, you could still expect...
Although I enjoyed Jeffrey Kluger's piece "Call of the Mild" [ESSAY, Sept. 30], I must take issue with his theory that as we enter middle age we make noises that signify our physical decline. I am approaching 40, and I have had to make zero concessions to getting older. Well, sure, when I wake up my joints sound like monkeys on drugs fencing with baseball bats. Think I'll just sit right down here and Uhhh!...Oh, my, oh, my, Hmm, hmm, hmm. Ah, what the heck, if those young lions want me, they can come...
...emits a grunt on entering automobiles, I appreciated Kluger's Essay on the middle-aged grunt. But has he noticed that ever since tennis star Monica Seles popularized the "tennis grunt," it has been spreading? And she is definitely younger than middle age. What can be deduced from this trend? Maybe that grunters are "coming out"? BILL DILLON South Bend, Indiana...