The moon is indeed a harsh mistress, as Heinlein wrote. He would have loved the new info about Luna - what he could have done with that. One of the things that seems to me to be of utmost importance is the fact that Luna is loaded off-centre with the most massive part of the interior on the side facing Earth, although the body of our satellite is round. Since we also know how fast the moon is retreating from Earth, we know that it was much closer to the planet when our system was younger, which may explain our tectonic history. Was Luna first formed away from the Earth, then thrown our way by some catastrophic collision in the childhood of the Solar system?

NASA may use something like the "SAFE Shuttle Crew Escape Module" concept to design a NEW, advanced, better and SAFER Orion's Launch Abort System:

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about ENERGY, this... http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/18086/ ...is an interesting Technology Review article about "ultracapacitors" that may a revolution for the car market, but, unfortunately, that devices seem don't really exist now (...and the ultracapacitors' company doesn't have a website...) while this...
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/geothermal.html ...is a MIT article about the (more realistic) geothermal energy ...everywhere in the world, at only 10-20 km. of depth from ground, the temperature is so high to evaporate the water (that may drive a turbine to produce energy) ...some problems must be solved, but the energy we can produce from deep earth is immense! I think that THIS is the REAL energy of the future, much more than nuclear, solar, hydrogen, ethanol and (if someday possible) deuterium fusion...

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