Let's start with the money. Yes, the Apollo missions were enormously successful — and enormously expensive. At its peak, NASA was consuming around 5% of the entire federal budget, and more than half of that was devoted to the Apollo program. Accounting for inflation, the entire Apollo progr...
Like Apollo, Constellation was announced by a president and funded by Congress, with elements that continued on even after it was cancelled. Two other factors account for Apollo's success. Initially, the surprise event of Uri Gagarin's first human space flight created political distress and a ...
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While it took China 38 years to reach the first 1,000 kilometers of operational urban rail transit, the second 1,000 kilometers was achieved in less than five years. Measured by the annual growth rate of the total length, China is also significantly ahead of the rest of the world with ...
The 2017 budget of the National Cancer Institute, for example, a leading funder of scientific and medical research in the U.S., was $5.69 billion. Even though the dollar amount earmarked for the NCI goes up slightly each year, its true value with inflation has gone down consistently since...
the spacecraft won't be landing anywhere. There's no one onEuropato receive our message. Each name is one among hundreds of thousands of others. Even our names are simply intangible concepts created to denote our existence, an idea that linguists and philosophers have plunged into for years....
‘Deliver More’ is the name of the new talk show, which was created to fill the media void within the coatings industry in Canada and the US. Intech Services understands the challenges faced by you and other industrial manufacturers, and how difficult they can be to manage as these issues...
Humans walked on the moon for the last time in December 1972. NASA’s Apollo missions of the 60s and 70s sparked our imaginations. It wouldn’t be long before we built a moon base. Lunar tourism was right around the corner. Some of us might even be living there. We were on the verg...
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Though overshadowed in many ways by Nirvana’s appearance on the same program, Alice in Chains' 'MTV Unplugged' proved to be just as powerful. The set came after a stretch of inactivity for the band, as singer Layne Staley struggled with drug addiction. Though it was a battle the frontman...