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...that airlines using wide-body planes embraced long ago: carry lots of people at once and drive down the per-passenger cost. To get such an orbital airbus flying, he founded ShareSpace, a nonprofit company designed to help fund and promote mass-market space travel. ShareSpace's vision for cosmic tourism includes Earth-orbiting ships carrying as many as 100 people and clusters of modules that could act as orbiting hotels. "All we have to do," Aldrin says, "is use existing rocket technology and wrap an airplane around...
Once the game started, the cosmic indicatorsdid not improve. The worst moment came in thefourth quarter, when junior Clint Kollar got ahand on Ryan Kiernan's punt. The ball wobbled,spun end-over-end, hit the ground and rolled. Androlled. By the time it was downed, the punt hadtraveled 40 yards. Harvard's longest punt of theday was 39 yards...
...million miles away, cost $1 billion, and for more than two years has surveyed the sun with spectacular results. This cosmic overachiever--about the size of a Volkswagen beetle--is the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, otherwise known as SOHO. Since April 1996 it has beamed back hundreds of thousands of remarkable images of solar eruptions and made dozens of scientific discoveries. It has also enhanced the ability of astronomers to predict and spot the powerful solar storms that produce auroras and cause power disruptions on Earth--as well as endanger satellites and astronauts in space...
...first bid for folkie stardom (his debut album stiffed, and his second was put on the shelf). In 1971 he fled Tennessee and a bad first marriage and wound up at the end of the road in Key West, then a lazy outpost for shrimpers, smugglers, gays and cosmic cowboys like singer Jerry Jeff Walker and novelist Tom McGuane, who ended up married to Buffett's sister Laurie...
...will travel on a highly elliptical orbit for five to seven years. AXAF will observe the universe in fifty times more detail than any previous X-ray telescope. The satellite combines the ability to make sharp images while measuring precisely the energies of X-rays coming from cosmic sources...