Word: orbiters
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...cheap. In 1989, during the 20th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, President Bush challenged NASA to figure out how to put human beings on Mars. The space agency came back with an elephantine 30-year plan that involved construction bays and fuel depots in low-Earth orbit and carried a jaw-dropping price tag of $450 billion...
...save money, but when it comes time to fly, they often fall short. At the 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...
...William Orbit...
...synthesizer is a gambler's instrument. It lures musicians with its gaudy array of textures and noises, but it can also deaden their performances. Sometimes, only sometimes, the gamble pays off. William Orbit's Pieces in a Modern Style, a collection of synthesizer arrangements of pieces by classical greats ranging from Vivaldi to Satie, is a case in point. When Orbit, Madonna's producer, sticks close to the composers' arrangements and instrumentation, as he does on Barber's "Adagio for Strings," the songs don't profit from the synthesizer's virtues and still suffer its vices. "Adagio" sounds like...
...impossible to use a synthesizer to turn classical music into.... really cool classical music. But since Orbit entered the public ear as the Material Girl's producer, it shouldn't be a great surprise that he gets a payoff only when he uses his synthesizer to turn classical into chill...