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...easy to forget the moon. The images of NASA's celebrated lunar landings are lasered onto the national retina, and perhaps no two things are better remembered than the sister ships that made the trips: the cone-shaped Apollo command module and the leggy lunar lander. If NASA has its way, those kinds of spacecraft will be flying again soon. They will not, however, be your daddy's moonships...
...lunar lander will be similarly improved, with updated electronics and materials. It too will be a larger ship than its predecessor, big enough to carry all four astronauts down to the surface while the mother ship idles empty in lunar orbit. That not only gets the most bang for the exploratory buck but also eliminates the lonely specter of the single astronaut who used to be left to mind the orbiter while the others went prospecting below...
...David S. Lander, who is the Coolidge professor of history and professor of economics emeritus at Harvard, said that Chandler “transformed and, to a great extent, defined the processes of economic development with his emphasis on the role of managerial business units...
...really gone far to explain the success of Western European nations and the United States, which are the nations that have taken the lead in this respect,” Lander said...
...CORRECTION: Due to an editing error, the print and original online version of the Dec. 13, 2005 news article "HBS Snags Emeritus Profs' Stash of Papers" misspelled the name of Coolidge Professor of History and Professor of Economics emeritus David S. Lander...