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...We’re basically asking how would we communicate with these intelligent life forms without going over to [visit] them on a rocket,” Horowitz says...
...Hitting Herschel, nailing a 45-yard field goal in five inches of snow to send a playoff game into overtime, ending Super Bowl XXXVI two weeks later with 48-yard game-winner as time expired - he?s not jumping over cars and rivers on a rocket-powered motorcycle, but like his third cousin, Evel Knievel, Adam Vinatieri doesn?t melt under fire. Despite a sub-par regular season, when he converted a career-low 73.5% of his field goal tries, Vinatieri has kept a clutch foot in the playoffs. He hit a 46-yard knuckleball in the Arctic cold...
...need a degree in rocket science to figure that private trips through the cosmos will be the killer app of the next space age. Entrepreneurs have long dreamed of offering golf outings on the moon or honeymoon suites in an orbiting hotel. Forget the golf for at least the next few decades. But as early as 2007 it may be possible to take a slingshot ride to the edge of the atmosphere for a celestial view of the planet and a few minutes of weightlessness--for a bargain price of $98,000. Space Adventures of Arlington, Va., is marketing that...
Reality check: unless you have about $15 million for a ride on an old Soviet Soyuz rocket, private space travel still exists only on design boards and in desert workshops. If it does take off, it will be risky. One in 20 missions to space fails, usually catastrophically. Also, the government could set rules onerous enough to ground the fledgling industry. The FAA is now charged with issuing launch licenses and could impose tough restrictions on private trips, in part to minimize its own potential liability. "Even if people accept the risks, our government will be regulating private space travel...
...with NASA's astronauts reduced to hitching rides on Soyuz modules, the private-rocket crowd is fired up because a privately funded ship might be ready for takeoff within a few years. Since 1996, several teams have been racing to develop a three-person spacecraft that could reach the edge of the atmosphere and repeat the feat within two weeks--the qualifications required to win the $10 million X Prize created by entrepreneur Peter Diamandis to encourage private spaceflight. Leading that race is legendary aerospace engineer Burt Rutan, who is gearing up for another test after his rocket plane broke...