Word: approaching
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With all the hype that surrounds her accomplishments, Gyorffy's approach to jumping has remained simple...
...this approach which, barring the unforeseen, will carry her to Sydney's new Olympic Stadium in September, and perhaps to the medal podium...
Whichever approach is chosen, what all of them have in common is the speed with which they could be pulled off. Unlike the early Apollo planners, who weren't even sure they could get astronauts into near-Earth space, much less fling them out to the moon, Mars-mission directors have the basic space-travel technology down cold. All they need is the go-ahead to design and build their machines...
...Johnson Space Center, engineers are thus looking at other Mars scenarios that still include frugal, on-site fuel manufacturing but also call for six-person crews, bigger vehicles and Apollo-style motherships in Martian orbit. "We're trying to take the best ideas and fold them into a reasonable approach," says Drake...
...biggest problem with such a plan is that even when bolted together, the plates would continue to build up stress, and that stress would have to be relieved somewhere. A much better approach would be to relieve the stress gradually--with a lot of small quakes--rather than let it accumulate. If man-made quakes could move the fault just 1.67 in. a year, the Big One on the northern San Andreas could be averted...