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Franey, tied for the team lead in homeruns and hitting .234 on the season in the clean-up slot, provided a bright spot for Harvard's anemic offense with a fourth-inning rocket over the right field fence. Junior center fielder Scott Carmack followed Franey's homerun with a single and then scored on a double by sophomore catcher Brian Lentz...
...Little Red Rocket at Bill's Bar: lush female vocals over guitar-based rock (a la Veruca Salt) from this Athens band...
...that doesn't include the cost of insuring rich and possibly litigious passengers. John Pike of the Federation of American Scientists acerbically suggests the entire group of entrepreneurs trying to corner the space-tourism market have between them "just enough money to blow up one rocket...
...money but zero interest in making space less expensive for the little guys. So the little guys are racing to do what NASA has failed to do: design a reusable launch system that's inexpensive, safe and reliable. Kelly Space's prototype looks like a plane that has sprouted rocket engines. Rotary Rocket in Redwood City, Calif., has a booster with rotors to make a helicopter-style return to Earth; Kistler Aerospace in Kirkland, Wash., is piecing together its version from old Soviet engines, shuttle-style thermal protection tiles and an elaborate parachute system. The first passenger countdowns are still...
...incoming asteroid. Depending on its mass and composition, they would use tailor-made nuclear explosions to pulverize a small asteroid or deflect a larger one. Given enough time, and under the proper circumstances, less drastic measures would be needed. Some schemes call for conventional explosives alone, or anchoring a rocket motor or a solar sail on an asteroid to alter its orbit enough to allow it to safely bypass Earth...