A2- Sunday, October 24, 1982 - North Shore News

‘TEN YEARS ago; the Space Agee ended. biting the: earth, - “most:of it “Who knows? Somebody industrial use”‘of an in-
‘ - tending now in‘the- direction might already have, returned _» dustrig
. That is, on Dec. 21, 1972, problem from war to over- of military use — but the with ‘news. of .. fabulous”. offi 0 20:per
the Apollo -17. astronauts population — had died with creative momentum was treasures; - enough to: “ of the total iIding : area.”
returned from the moon; the a whimper. .. finished as of 1972. stimulate a second wave of Merrill She pard, “4
last men to do'so.. ; But.the kids couldn't have A. friend of mine, George outward-bound pioneers. Chairman of the Chamber's, .
cared less. Dyson, has a father who Instead, we settle for economic development
. Just six flights. before, Neil My son was old, enough personified the dream.

Armstrong - had planted | his’
boot in lunar’ dust,“muffed™

(just barely) to remember :
sitting on. my lap as we’.

“Back in the late. ‘1950s,

setting ground - rules -which.

did not permit the launching

ofa starship that would-add:

one: "percent_mofe- radiation __

to -what ‘was already: ‘being.-. 1G!

caused: ‘by “atmospheric”,

atomic bomb tests. - ean
Project .-Orio

gotten’: off ‘the: -'ground, ~~ ;

human beings might already. '

have reached Barnard’s’ Star,
which is only six light. years

away.

science fiction movies: + about
star travel. ae

as

‘warning’ issued by-the North
Van Chamber of Comerce. ~

The proposed ; amendment

would restrict.

committee, . points out. that

“accessory.

accommodation
a requires more - than: 50..per
of, the b ;

. the proposed

aw change

d expanding “high
he City.

It’s odd. Asa‘child, Iknew
“the ‘Space Agé lay ahead.

. What T never suspected: “Was |
that I would “live to’see it™

“Freeman Dyson: ‘actually ’
his immortal quote, andwas watched -the’ first flickering . worked .out:the-design:for a
hailed as the ‘Columbus of his black and white:picture from gargantuan ship which could
time. the’ moon’s surface coming |

oy
+ “hurtleé maybe a million |
I ‘remember - the. day into our living room, and the

caine offices,

people. on* ‘their. way to
Apollo »17. returned. ;.The another star system.

slopes” of Vancouver's Little” Having just sais “We > copy
Mountain were. glazed with you down,

snow.

In the carly - dusk, the
nearly-full moon. cast.
enough ‘light so that.as my:

id: ¥- flashed down the

our ‘plasti saucer-

voice of Mission Control

For the kis. the Space
Age was perfectly normal —
as normal, say, as_an Old-

smobile was to me, _even.

though my gréat-grandfather
would have been mindblown

“The ship > would: ‘have been

powered “by
propulsion,

‘meaning that .
hydrogen ‘bombs ‘would be -
detonated against a pusher ‘
plate which would.drive the
craft — roughly the size of a
city - at incredible speeds

behind me. —

_ tables and meeting rooms:
In some cases,

he says,

toboggans we. east | _ blue at the thought of either acar through the universe.
shadows: - ‘3 oraspaceship. ; :
‘Knowin 1s that. “thé What my kids couldn't Giant shock absorbers

would save the crew and
equipment from being
crushed by these nuclear
mule-kicks, and there would

American ‘space program grasp on that wintery day ten
was grinding.to'a halt after years ago was that the
having spent: ‘something like gateway to the stars had
$24 billion to. land”'a few opened, briefly, at enormous

good « old boys on the! moon,I cost, due to a unique be shielding against radio-
felt a definite sense of loss. combination of political activity.

Standing in the snowinthe events, but that it was Called Project Orion, the
silver light, I tried toexplain closing now, and for all starship could have been
the significance of Apollo anybody knew, it might launched back in the 1960s,
17's return... never open again. except for the price tag —.

The triumphant ecape into Oh, since then, there have equal to the GNP of the

space which had been my been robot probes to other
generation's dream -— and worlds, and plenty of activity
the ‘answer to almost" every in terms of hardware or-

United States for one year.
The Nuclear Test Ban
Treaty also got in the way,

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