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...propose that pulsars were rapidly rotating neutron stars (all evidence suggests he was right). In the mid-1960s he sparked another ruckus by predicting that the first spacecraft to land on the moon could encounter a mile-thick layer of dust that, if loose, would engulf the vehicle (the lunar surface, of course, was perfectly firm...
Johnson's thesis was presented to the Lunar and Planetary Conference in Houston earlier this spring...
...though charged with static electricity, quivering like Rousseau's own paintbrush; the swollen, white Melies moon; the black nomad like a toppled statue, her feet with their pink toenails gravely sticking up; the djellaba, with its rippling stripes of coral, Naples yellow, cerulean; and the lute, like a pale lunar egg, hanging on the brown sand as the moon hangs in the blue night. Reproduced a millionfold, this oneiric image became the Guernica of the tots, the standard decor of upper-middle-class childhood. Such fame, decanted on a single picture, can distort an artist's entire reputation...
...have some of these uses in mind when we designed it." NASA Administrator James Beggs told TIME, "It's hard to say where we are going, but it is important that in ten years we make sure that we open all the options, so that when a lunar site decision is made, we will have built the space station." Beggs' answer begs the question. He seems to be saying that the U.S. needs a space station because it is going to have a moon base, but he does not answer: Why does the U.S. need a moon base...
NASA's next great goal is a familiar one: to put men on the moon. Only this time, NASA wants to keep them there to inhabit a lunar colony. Former NASA Administrator Thomas Paine predicts that by the year 2025, the first "humans will be calling themselves "natives of the moon...