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...launch his project, Beilenson left a family publishing venture, the Peter Pauper Press, in the hands of his wife and son. Peter Pauper publishes inspirational gift books and guided journals including Notes to Myself, World's Best Limericks and Moment in Time: My Life at the Dawn of a New Millenium...
Beilenson says the alumni association will not launch any fundraising efforts in the near future in order to not interfere with the Centennial Campaign...
...launch of the mission would, of course, have to come from the B-School parking lot during half-time of the Harvard-Yale game in 2008. Once and for all we would demonstrate our superiority to Eli and their paltry $9 billion endowment...
This week a Russian and American consortium will announce plans for an April launch of the first so-called solar-sail vehicle, a multimasted spacecraft that will use sunlight to push itself along. To a public raised on smoke-and-fire rocketry, the idea of drawing energy straight from space seems fanciful. To the people behind the new ship, however, the technology is not only sensible but inevitable, the easiest way to reinvent the business of cosmic travel. "This allows us to use very little fuel to fly very great distances," says Bud Schurmeier, a former NASA engineer...
...spacecraft is a 3-ft. metal pod with eight 35-ft. metallic wings. Mylar petals sprout from it--though the prototype used in the April launch will have just two petals. Mounted atop a reconfigured Russian ICBM and launched from a sub in the Barents Sea, the Cosmos 1 will fly to an altitude of 260 miles, where it will deploy the wings and float for a minute or so. If all goes well, the wings will then be jettisoned and the sphere aerobraked back to Earth, its bounce-down on Russian soil cushioned by air bags...