During the LEO GEO transit, the crew and cargo vehicles will encounter exposure from trapped particles and attenuated GCR, followed by free space exposure due to GCR and SEP during solar active times.
So here come Mr. Claypool and his boss, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, as a mass-transit cleanup crew armed with what amounts to squeegees and wishful thinking.
The New York Academy of Medicine is beginning an even more ambitious task: building a registry of every person -- from the firefighters to members of the New York City Transit tunnel crews -- who worked, even for a day, at ground zero.
The network of people contributing to the system clean up includes New York City Transit workers and crews from its parent agency, the Metropolitan Transit Authority, state and city Department of Transportation staff and the Army Corps of Engineers.
Quite apart from the risks of launch (the recent Antares rocket explosion proves we should never take this for granted), during the transit to Mars the crew will be exposed to damaging levels of radiation that will significantly increase their risks of developing cancer.
When librarians, lifeguards, teachers, transit workers, road repair crews and health care workers disappear, or airport and school construction is halted, the economy trembles.
The temblor briefly caused 15- to 20-minute delays on the Bay Area Rapid Transit system while maintenance crews inspected the tracks, officials said.
The British sent James Cook on the Endeavour to witness the transit from Tahiti, where his crew became so enamoured with the locals they made only cursory notes on the event.
Two days after a pair of passing Metro-North Railroad trains collided near Fairfield, Conn., injuring scores of people and clogging travel across wide swaths of the Northeast, transit officials said Sunday that crews had removed most of the 16 damaged cars from the rubble, with the help of two cranes.
So Mr. Murphy found himself surrounded by a motley crew of buffs, New York City Transit workers and officials and reporters, enjoying the train's final run through Queens.
