Re: News - NASA lunar mission gets off the ground

On 9 Nov 2006 10:31:24 -0800, "Rusty" <reuben_barton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"We're not going to the moon just to do footprints again," said Tom
Sutliff, a manager at the Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. "We're
going to live off the land. It's much, much more than Apollo."

....I can see it now:

CDR: "I mean, I haven't eaten this much regolith in twenty years. And
I'll tell you one thing, in another 23 days, I ain't never eating any
more. And if they offer to serve me regolith or even anorthosite with
my breakfast, I'm going to throw up. I like an occasional brecchia, I
really do. But I'll be damned if I'm going to be buried in basalts!"

OM
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