Word: 500th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smack of science fiction, but the planners are deadly serious. The race is being sponsored by the Christopher Columbus Quincentennial Jubilee Commission, which hopes to get the ships launched around Oct. 12, 1992, the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America. Among the spacecraft designers are former NASA and aerospace experts. And included on the committee that will choose the winning designs are Lieut. General James Abrahamson, former head of the Star Wars program, and former astronauts Frank Borman and John Glenn...