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...will not set foot on the moon again before the end of 2015 and 50-to-1 odds against Mars' being reached before 2030 is over. The Chinese had reasons of their own to be interested. On New Year's Day, Beijing announced that it was beginning its own lunar program, with a first unmanned landing set for six years away. The program is called Chang'e, a reference to the story of the lonely Chinese fairy who fled to the moon after stealing her husband's immortality pills. If China's lander cruises anywhere near the U.S. outpost...
...soil directly in front of it. This will allow it both to calibrate its instruments and get the data flow streaming back to Earth. The Apollo astronauts used to do something similar, spending their first moments on the moon collecting what they called a contingency sample--a clump of lunar soil and rock they would tuck into a spacesuit pocket so they would have something to show for the trip if a sudden emergency forced them to turn around and come straight home. Spirit, of course, is never coming home. It will spend its entire useful life on the Martian...
...will start a patriotic health campaign to kill rats and cockroaches in order to give every place a thorough cleaning for the Lunar New Year." Feng Liuxiang, deputy director of the Guangdong health bureau, after a second person in the southern Chinese province was suspected of coming down with SARS...
...only by the pyrotechnic guitar playing—infinitely superior to his current brand of lazy, guest-appearance cheese—but by the fantastic, almost certainly drug-inspired cover of the old vinyl album. The image, of an almost human man conjuring the universe against a dark lunar landscape, fit the music perfectly, or at least complemented it well. I was distinctly disappointed a few years later when I bought my own copy on CD: the cover, shrunk to CD size, looked tacky and painfully dated...
...read about China's manned space program with interest and wonder [Oct. 20]. I grew up watching the Apollo launches and hoped that by now the U.S. would have made many more giant leaps into our solar system and beyond. The Apollo lunar program was a testament to mankind's curiosity, tenacity and intellect. But it demonstrated our competitive nature and paranoia about the Soviet Union's space program. Perhaps a little competition is what we need to give the National Aeronautics and Space Administration the proper funding. I wish the Chinese success in space. It can only help...