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...appropriately named torture. I had the options of "interval training" (intervals of two weeks, I hoped), "Pike's Peak" (for those who exercise in hiking boots instead of Reeboks), "random" (for my house assignment), "manual control" (for Gov. concentrators), "roller coaster" (the machine does a 360 while you climb), "lunar landing" (so you can space out while exercising) or "steady climb" (for underachievers...
...sticking to his Maine vacation (the tense, almost angry flailing at golf balls, the powerboat Fidelity bucking out of harbor, a war getting organized by cellular phone) contributed to an air of the surreal. So did the alien theater of war: the Saudi peninsula's shimmering heat, its lunar landscapes, its customs and culture out of other centuries altogether...
...long after Neil Armstrong took his "one small step for man," however, even as more Apollo flights were successfully plying the lunar route, the seeds of NASA's decline were planted. Some space historians go so far as to pinpoint the day it happened: March 7, 1970, when President Richard Nixon, preoccupied with Vietnam and budgetary problems, decided that it was not in the best interests of the U.S. to have a high-profile space program...
...Space Center near Uchinoura, some 940 km (598 miles) southwest of Tokyo. But despite the minimal press coverage and lack of hoopla, the event was a major milestone for Japan's space program. The launch sent the unmanned Muses-A probe on its way to the moon, the first lunar mission since the Soviets' Luna 24 in 1976. Muses-A is expected to come within 16,000 km (10,000 miles) of the target in mid-March. It will then release a smaller probe, which will go into lunar orbit. If all goes as planned, Japan will become only...
...trying to get the inside track on international missions that have not even been scheduled yet. Shimizu, a construction firm, has opened a space-projects section to develop ideas for a moon base, either Japanese or American. The company has already begun work on how concrete made from lunar soil could be used to form large structures. Ohbayashi, also in the construction business, will join American companies in building a $100 million facility for lunar-base research in Florida...