the rewrappings of an Egyptian mummy

Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.

“I’ve never known Mark to be religious,” Gold observed. But she noted that “people close to him have said, ‘He follows the wind.’ ”

From this realization, it was but a short jump to the conclusion that a low-cost space transportation system, along with the space station, was an essential N.A.S.A. program for the 1970’s, and the shuttle program was born. / N.A.S.A.’s 1969 recommendations to a presidentially-chartered Space Task Group which was preparing plans for the nation’s future space program noted that “a new and truly low-cost space transportation system is an integral part of the space station concept.”