That way they can rationalize Amazon's going to the moon and back in one day.
By now, McDonald's has served 70 billion hamburgers, enough to reach to the moon and back 17 times over.
Eight years and eight weeks later, Apollo 11 completed the job, flying to the moon and back in July 1969.
Yet the Apollo program, apart from a training fire that killed three in 1967, somehow got men safely to the moon and back seven times.
The modular tin cans that took us to the moon and back, and have kept us in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) ever since, will eventually be superceded by full-scale space cities.
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Okay, so technology was pretty much crap compared to what we take for granted today, especially when it came to the computational power required to get to the moon and back.
Now the company will design a vehicle to help Golden Spike achieve its goal of establishing routine commercial transportation of people to the moon and back by the end of the decade.
So Neil Armstrong is incredibly brave, and somehow goes to the moon and gets back.
The route is simple: a straight out departure, staying left of the 101 freeway, past San Carlos Airport, past SFO airport, through South San Francisco, and into downtown San Francisco, over the Oakland Bay Bridge, past Alcatraz Island, over the Golden Gate Bridge, then south following the coastline to Half Moon Bay and back east to PAO.
In 1989, after a 12-year, 4-billion-mile space journey, Voyager 2 flew over the cloudtops of the giant planet Neptune and its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swampy areas, frozen lakes and craters.
The intention was to give the US a crew-carrier and rocket technology that could go beyond low-Earth orbit to more distant targets, back to the Moon and further.
She stiffened and moved away from me, but I turned up the music and we settled back to drive and watch the moon come up.
President Obama has cut back on plans for Orion, which was going to go back to the moon and then on to Mars.
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It's a tremendous step, the first of many as we get into exploration of the Solar System, back to the Moon and on to Mars.
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In the dying stages of the match, Craig pulled the ball back from close range and Moon sent it over the line to ensure victory for the visitors.
Alan Maybury and Kevin Moon dropped to the bench while David Robertson missed out with concussion and Pars fFull-back Jason Thomson returned from a groin injury.
You could probably get rich mining the moon if you had a way to get there and back.
The television pictures on board were designed to begin operating when the rocket came within 2, 500 miles (4, 023km) of the lunar surface - 40 minutes before impact - and then send an image of the Moon back to Earth every 13 seconds.
But they're back together now and our critic Tom Moon has been waiting for the reunion.
Passengers in both the front and back had a clear view of the moon.
And as with the Moon, we may never go back to the places Jobs took us.
"We're ready to put them to work and get ready to put bootprints back on the moon, " says Glenn Lutz, NASA's project manager for Extravehicular Activity Systems at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
St Johnstone welcomed back local boy, midfielder Kevin Moon, but lost Filipe Morais and Peter MacDonald to injury.
Proof: the fake plastic butt attached to the back of a pair of shorts he wore and used to moon a helicopter before crossing the starting line.
His boss there, Bruce Rioch, thought so highly of the towering centre-back, that he said if he was going to the moon and could only take one man with him, then Tony Mowbray would be the man he would want by his side.
And so, it's like looking at the back of the moon for the first time--everything is a discovery basically.
The Obama Administration has canceled plans it inherited to send astronauts back to the Moon, the Space Shuttle is about to retire, and the only near-term human space flight initiative on the books is a handout to rich California businessmen to update old technology.
St Johnstone were also looking to bounce back from their exit at the hands of St Mirren, with David McCracken and Kevin Moon returned from injury and Willie Gibson joining them in the starting line-up in place Sean Higgins, Jamie Adams and the injured Frazer Wright.
And why on earth (or in heaven) would America want to send people back to the moon anyway?
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