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...model for manned flight was not Art Carney in the sewer but Vasco da Gama rounding the Cape. Long ago, public support for space exploration had two parts. First, a spirit of competition. It was sport -- war by other means -- writ large, very large: an international race to the moon...
Grindlay, however, disagrees. "In our grad student days, at the time of the Apollo moon landing, Jeff was pretty excited about [the idea of becoming an astronaut]," he says. "I don't think he thought it was a realistic opportunity at that time, but we were both speculating about how exciting it would be to do astronomy from space...
...Hubble rescue is by far the most difficult mission since the moon landings. The crew was set to perform at least five six-hour space walks, and maybe up to seven, in order to replace or repair the telescope's myopic primary mirror, an outdated camera, two wobbly solar-energy panels and three faulty gyroscopes, among other balky components -- 11 fixes in all. Says mission scientist Edward Weiler sardonically: "This is not a trip to Grandma's house to fix the faucet...
Finest slow song of all time: Cowboy Junkies' "Blue Moon Revisted...
...writers. Waits, the bard of last-chance saloons, has never taken deader aim at the line that separates the mordant from the maudlin. On the one hand, there's November, a bitter hymn to the month that "only believes in a pile of dead leaves/ And a moon that's the color of bone." On the other, there's I'll Shoot the Moon, in which Kathchen, daydreaming about her lover, vows to "be the pennies on your eyes" and "build a nest in your hair...