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Never mind the moon?s utter lack of atmosphere, there?s plenty of air to breathe up there-provided you know where to look. With NASA once again planning human moon exploration, that?s become an increasingly important matter. This week, the Hubble Space Telescope may have provided some critical answers...
...moon?s small mass and low gravity that prevents it from keeping hold of even a tenuously thin atmosphere. But oxygen needn?t exist only in gaseous form above the ground. It can also be entrained safely in certain kinds of rocks. Gather the rubble and either treat it with chemicals or blast it with heat, and you can free up unlimited quantities of oxygen both for breathing and for rocket fuel...
...lunar mineral that may hold the most oxygen promise is ilmenite, a titanium oxide brought back from the moon?s Taurus-Littrow region by the Apollo 17 crew in 1972. To determine how heavy the ilmenite concentrations are at that site and to look for other outcroppings as well, NASA recently decided to conduct telescope surveys of four lunar regions: Taurus-Littrow, Hadley-Apennine-landing site of Apollo 15-the unexplored Aristarchus impact crater and nearby Schroter?s Valley. Though ground-based telescopes would ordinarily be suitable for this work, in this case they wouldn?t do, since the scientists...
...accident has occurred on the moon. Did Joe Chip survive it? In a world in which science and drugs blur the line between life and death, reality and hallucination, even he isn't sure. Dick spins the stuff of sci-fi into an existential nightmare you'll never be quite sure you've awakened from...
...says. “I focused on academics, in particular on engineering, to lessen the burden on my family.”COMMITMENT TO SERVICEEven after completing his studies, Evans’ parents’ educational message continued to drive him.When working in Huntsville, Ala. on the 1969 moon landing, Evans says he saw young African-American adults being “swallowed up” by the new integration.He says that he saw then that he could do something to help—he started a one-man, unpaid recruiting and placement service for young African-American students, helping...