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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe. But one man's vision is another man's fever dream, and to X Prize engineers struggling to achieve a popgun suborbital, Aldrin's ideas may sound loopy. Undaunted, Aldrin and ShareSpace have come up with a plan to raise the capital they need. For $10 or so, contestants could enter a sweepstakes qualifying them to win a range of space-related prizes, including a ride aboard a zero-gravity training plane or a trip in a MiG-25 to the edge of space. Any money left over would be used for the group's advocacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vacations in Orbit | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...POPGUN RETALIATION...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle So Far, So Good | 1/28/1991 | See Source »

...area on Friday, but none released gas. They injured about a dozen people but killed no one. Four elderly Israelis and a three-year-old girl, however, either suffocated inside gas masks that had been improperly adjusted or died of heart attacks. Despite the fatalities, that amounted to a popgun attack in contrast to the kind of assault Israel and the U.S. had feared Saddam would mount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle So Far, So Good | 1/28/1991 | See Source »

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