Space Stations, Boats and The End of the Sunday drive.
On to the Moon. At long last, Someone, or should I say, Something...being a large Corporation, has taken on board the ability and necessity of Man to not only travel to the moon, but indeed to live there. In the August 4 edition of TIME Magazine, General Electric announce that their Missile and Space Vehicle Department ( hey, you didn't know they had such a Department, did you!?) have released a massive report on how, and how soon, a Colony can be established on the moon, as well as an estimate of the cost. "G.E believes that no major breakthroughs are required, only modest improvements in the space art." Reading further in, maybe one drawback could be that the project will require the equivalent of 200 Saturn rocket ships. " Two hundred Saturns will be needed. together with massive upper stages and a host of other fancy equipment , to soft land 10 colonists and 500,000 lbs ...