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...there a way back to the moon? Not through NASA, which lost its clear sense of purpose after the Apollo program ended in 1972. The space shuttle proved fatally unreliable, and the proposed space station has been stuck on the drawing board for 10 years. With no vision to lift NASA, the agency is trapped in a downward spiral of mediocrity only slightly relieved by the brilliant repair of the Hubble telescope last winter. Administrator Daniel Goldin recently proposed a new mission: NASA should set a long-range goal of finding a habitable planet close to a nearby star. While...
Last month ESA's science director, Roger Bonnet, unveiled a bold proposal: an open-ended program to colonize the moon. The program could begin as early as the year 2000 with exploration by robot orbiters and landers, followed by installation of automated scientific instruments. Finally, robots would build a base, which could be ready for human occupation in 2020, says Bonnet. A similar proposal has come from Japan, where a group called the Lunar and Planetary Society set out its own ideas for a robot-made moon base that could be built by 2024 for $28 billion. Both plans contain...
...moon. Despite scientists' sober warnings that the Great Comet Crash of 1994 might be an uneventful dud, the first chunk plowed into Jupiter's atmosphere with the force of perhaps 10 million hydrogen bombs, lofting a mushroom cloud of hot gas nearly 1,000 miles out into space and leaving a dark scar on the planet's familiar, brightly colored clouds. The assembled astronomers looked at the video screen for a second in silent disbelief -- then began cheering and toasting one another with swigs from champagne bottles. Said Hammel: "This is the kind of stuff I've been dreaming about...
JAMES IRWIN "felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before" while walking on the moon. He subsequently founded an evangelical Christian organization whose activities included expeditions to Turkey to look for traces of Noah's Ark. He died of a heart attack...
Space fans eager to join in the moon-landing anniversary celebrations or hear the latest shuttle updates can get news about the space agency on the Net. Use the "finger" resource for nasanews (http://space.mit.edu) Or use Gopher for (http://world.std.com) and choose "News and Weather," then select "NASA News...