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"This could be a chaotic circus; let's have
an organized circus."
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"BEO = Beyond Earth Orbit"
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"Where Hell does freeze over."
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A dust cloud in your face is not poetic.
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"At Discovery, we're getting very implementational
questions like 'should we change Mars?'"
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Now HMP is one-third the size of Resolute.
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Without sun and warmth, there is no
romance.
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The dome tent is poetry, the mess hall
prosaic.
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Now we have roads, and they will need to be
maintained.
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Percival Lowell Canal
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Charllie's nth trip to Trinity Lake to study microbial
ecology
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"Hmm, look at that!"
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Each evening Joe said, "I helped at the
hab. No bears."
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"It's all eyeball engineering--back to
basics, Flintstone mentality."
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"We've got to keep going."
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30 people at tables in the mess tent, a
'copter buzzing back and forth taking pictures, the sun brightly
lighting the tent's walls.
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Lying prone in an oasis, it could be the
Southwest desert.
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Pascal overlooking the Haughton Crater
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"There's no escape from a briefing"
...and no escape from the media.
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