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...Universal Space Travel? One of the silliest prophecies I've ever read was in "The Space Cowboys" [March 5]. Aeronautical engineer Burt Rutan said, "Fifteen years from now, every kid will know he can go to orbit in his lifetime." Even the kids in Ghana portrayed in the same issue? And where is the fuel to come from? Surely there are better uses for the world's dwindling energy resources. Lars Sollin, lund, sweden...
...Universal Space Travel? One of the silliest prophecies I've ever read was in "The Space Cowboys" [March 5]. Aeronautical engineer Burt Rutan said, "Fifteen years from now, every kid will know he can go to orbit in his lifetime." Even the kids in Ghana portrayed in the March 12 issue? And where is the fuel to come from? Surely there are better uses for the world's dwindling energy resources. Lars Sollin, Lund, Sweden...
Before boarding a train in New York last weekend, I stopped at a newsstand to buy my usual travel provisions: a bottle of water, some Orbit gum, and a newspaper. Then, standing over the shelves of magazines, I gave in to a guilty desire and bought the March issue of Cosmopolitan. Whenever I pick up a copy of Cosmo, my immediate impulse is to pull the magazine close to my chest and to look around to check that no one I know is present to witness the act. This reaction must be a throwback to the grocery store checkout lines...
Seager said the James Webb Space Telescope, which will be launched in 2013 and orbit the earth at a height of one million miles, will have a lens seven times bigger than that of the Spitzer telescope...
...most important reason we're going to space is not known now," says Rutan, who also points to similarities with the early computer industry, which evolved from the Army's need to improve its ballistics calculations. He and Branson have 100 engineers looking at new technology for both orbital and suborbital flights as well as lunar flybys in a "glass bubble." On Necker, the two men pored over ideas for a plane that would fly orbitally, cutting flying time between New York City and London to 20 min. once in orbit...