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...Even better, it will also rely on Apollo?s lunar landing technique, with a spidery lunar module like the beloved old LEMs still to come. The contractor for that one hasn?t been picked, but Northrop Grumman - whose Grumman Corporation granddaddy built the original LEM - would not be a bad choice...
...DIED. STANISLAW LEM, 84, Polish writer of ruminative science-fiction classics, most famously Solaris, a metaphysical-psychological tale that spawned a 1972 film and a 2002 remake starring George Clooney; in Krakow, Poland. Lem, who battled communist censors?and tweaked them in novels such as The Futurological Congress?wrote more than 50 books that were translated into 40 languages and sold 27 million copies worldwide...
DIED. STANISLAW LEM, 84, Polish writer of ruminative science-fiction classics, most famously Solaris, a metaphysical-psychological tale that spawned a 1972 film and a 2002 remake starring George Clooney; in Krakow, Poland. Lem, who battled communist-era censors--and tweaked them in novels like The Futurological Congress--wrote more than 50 books that were translated into 40 languages and sold 27 million copies worldwide...
...administrator Michael Griffin has called the new generation of spacecraft "Apollo on steroids" and that's a good description. The command and service modules-which will carry the crew-do look like pumped-up Apollos. And the spindly lunar lander is a decidedly more muscular version of the earlier LEM...
...palpable vision of someone they have loved and lost. Waking to find a perfect facsimile of his late wife (Natascha McElhone), Kelvin soon surrenders to what seems like a gift from the grave. Steven Soderbergh's remake of Andrei Tarkovsky's science-fiction classic, based on the Stanislaw Lem novel, can't touch the 1972 film's austere poignancy, and McElhone lacks the bewitching beauty of Natalya Bondarchuk in the original Solaris. But the project's gravity and ambition can't be denied. They inform Clooney's gently grieving demeanor, the ache in his eyes, the hope against hope...