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...compete to see which would become the shuttle's successor, carrying passengers and cargo between earth and the space station. Yet another craft, a kind of space truck, would also be created to move crews and material from space stations to geosynchronous orbits (22,300 miles up) and the moon...
...this futuristic concept, the first space station would be expanded into a spaceport. Other such ports would be deployed in more distant orbits, including one some 35,000 miles from the moon, where the gravitational pull of the earth is canceled by that of the lunar body. This base would provide the jumping-off point for manned flights to Mars. Eventually, two "cycling spaceships" would be in continual operation. Depending on the trajectory chosen, they would take five to seven months to make the one-way trip. Blithely explains Marcia Smith, executive director of the commission: "You'd have...
...expense and bother? The 15-member commission contends that, beyond the sheer accumulation of new knowledge, exotic types of manufacturing can be done only in the conditions of space, the moon and Mars, and that useful organic materials can be recovered from these surfaces. While at first people, living in enclosed "biospheres," would explore the distant bodies and set up factories there, many of these operations would later be controlled from earth. The sciences of robotics and artificial intelligence, in particular, must be accelerated to make all of this possible...
...launch-pad fire at the cape in 1967, the U.S. space program has been forced into a long-needed reassessment of its goals and the means to reach them. Not since President John F. Kennedy insisted, just 25 years ago last month, that America should place astronauts on the moon within ten years have national leaders concurred on what the U.S. should be doing in space. "That was the last presidential policy for space," contends former NASA Administrator Thomas Paine, who now chairs a Reagan-appointed National Commission on Space...
...National Commission on Space, after a yearlong study, sketched a detailed timetable for colonizing the moon and Mars during the next 50 years. The report was scorned as unrealistic by a White House aide, but Paine, the commission's forward-looking chairman, predicted that if his panel reassembled in 15 years it would "severely criticize" its own report as insufficiently visionary. "Somebody will be mining the moon by the year 2005," he declared. "The only real question is what language they'll be speaking...