Furthermore, an all robotic base means that the translunar infrastructure is much cheaper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why the Moon? Here's Why. - NASA Watch] Reference

You could have an electric or nuclear translunar architecture using oxygen, harvested from the Moon, as reaction mass.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Shift in Policy? Moon Base Axed? - NASA Watch] Reference

And if we could build sustainable translunar infrastructure, than we would find ourselves in a situation where colonizing the Moon wouldn't be that silly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back to the Moon We Go - NASA Watch] Reference

We don't already have translunar manned transport capability (to the surface), and getting it will cost many, many tens of billions more than a sufficiently dexterous RC bot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why the Moon? Here's Why. - NASA Watch] Reference

This translunar preference for the "Over-soul" over every human feeling is not Montaigne's notion of the passion of friendship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations] Reference

One wonders if they have ever felt the remote translunar beauty that common faces and old, dim, pitiful things can wear sometimes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions] Reference

Gretchen, he would never have passed as far as he did along the road of Initiation, and the spirit of his Victim -- in her translunar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions] Reference

The strategic objective of "Provide the tools and the processes to open up cislunar and translunar space to American enterprise" allows for a lot of interpretation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out of the Cradle] Reference

The characters who re-fire the S-IVB main engine for translunar injection, with nothing but a survival pack of big ideas for use on arrival, tend to vanish in the cosmos.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yorkshire Ranter] Reference

Instinct takes the place of reason; and our soul, as if answering the appeal of some translunar chord of subliminal music, vibrates in response to a mood that baffles all analysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations] Reference

It is the noble Platonic rising from the love of one beautiful person to the love of many beautiful persons; and from that onward, through translunar gradations, to the love of the supreme.    From Wordnik.com.  [Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions] Reference

He had been on the land, in the person of his ancestors, from time almost immemorial, though he had only a small cottage, and a little bit of land, barely enough to feed the translunar cow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warlock o' Glenwarlock] Reference

It is one result of these withdrawings to the translunar empyrean that the life of a man of action upon this earth does not appear any more or any less remarkable or important than the life of a man of letters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations] Reference

The third stage of the Saturn V, known as the S-IVB, had two main functions: propel the astronauts out of Earth's gravity to the Moon, and protect the LM in a cocoon for later extraction by the CM at the start of the translunar coast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Patriot Ledger Home RSS] Reference

Not Milton's keen, translunar music thine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems of William Watson] Reference

From the dramatic liftoff and earth orbit ... through translunar injection ... the walk on the moon ... and the triumphant return to earth, the feat was a remarkable example of the peacetime efforts of men working toward a common goal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apollo Communications] Reference

Yes, it is Beauty we crave, and yet, how often, in the strain and stress of life, it seems as though this strange impossible Presence, rising thus, like that figure in the Picture, "beside the waters" of the fate that carries us, were too remote, too high and translunar, to afford us the aid we need.    From Wordnik.com.  [Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions] Reference

Last Thursday morning, after fighting my way through the Byzantine muskeg of airport security, I hopped aboard Air Canada flight 170 — was airsick, because the Gravol in my carry-on luggage was not carried on, because I had a jar of unauthorized liquid packed and my carry-on luggage therefore had to become checked luggage or not arrive at all, and a Gravol in checked luggage is worth two in translunar orbit, but not more — got mildly lost in bright shiny Terminal One at Pearson — found my luggage, took a bus to the poky little shed that is the face Hogtown shows to travellers to and from the U.S., and I’m not exaggerating, I’ve been in small-town bus terminals that looked better and had more amenities — waited for the ground crew to find the aircraft for my connecting flight, which they seemed to have mislaid in someone’s pocket, it being a Dash-8, and it would have made small odds whether I rode in it or carried it on my back, as to comfort and manoeuvrability, but for the small uncom.    From Wordnik.com.  [There and back again and—] Reference