Alternative Launcher For Returning To the Moon 116
DIRECT Launcher writes, "A grass-roots effort, based around a group of engineers, managers, and others involved in the US space program, is proposing an alternative launch vehicle for NASA to adopt for the new Lunar Exploration program. The new vehicle offers serious performance and cost savings totaling $35 billion over the next twenty years. The proposal was presented to NASA last week. The concept would make possible future Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions after Shuttle has retired, allow for all the remaining ISS elements to be launched after all, free up cash to fund the JIMO mission again, and also allow NASA to return to the moon three years early."
"pair" is not the unit (Score:3, Funny)
For women's shoes the standard unit of measure is the Imelda [wikipedia.org]. In your wife's case that would be a bit over 2%. [lycos.co.uk]
(My wife and her friends refer to anyone with more than about .025 imelda as a "shoe whore", a term they don't seem to consider in any way uncomplimentary.)
Yeah this post seems off-topic, but what the hell, it's a math post, and math is pretty important to celestial navigation!