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WHAT'S NEXT? In 10 to 15 years, we'll be on a path to building a permanent moon base, says Space Policy Institute director John Logsdon...
Race to the Moon: Part...
...been nearly four decades since man walked on the moon, and the private and public sectors are now looking lunar. On Sept. 13, Google pledged $20 million to the team that could first get a robotic rover on the moon. A day later, Japan launched its first lunar probe. China, India and the U.S. have plans to send up satellites of their own in the coming year...
Sagalevich professes bafflement. "I don't really know why some people got so nervous about [our] placing the Russian flag there," he told TIME. "The Americans placed their flag on the moon, and it doesn't mean the moon became theirs." The Russian acknowledges that though the mission "excited the whole world," it amounted to only a "pinprick" in Moscow's continued efforts to undergird its case for extended sovereignty in the Arctic. (In 2002 a U.N. commission shelved Russia's claim to more of the Arctic for lack of detailed technical evidence.) Nor, despite this summer's bravado...
...Israel such as turning off the power supply will hurt only militants and not the Palestinian civilians, many of them refugees, crowded into the narrow Gaza Strip. One international aid representative in Jerusalem denounced the plan as "nothing less than collective punishment," while U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged Israel to reconsider, warning that "such a step would be contrary to Israel's obligations towards the civilian population under international humanitarian and human rights...