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...going on the spaceship with Hale-Bopp to be with those who have gone before...
...sets were appropriately largescale and colorful, with a retrofuturistic spaceship and a powerfully suggestive open-jawed entrance to the Duchess Tisimmense's lair. The costumes were spectacular, especially the metallic droids', Hugh Jegg's and the Duchess' with its immense accoutrements...
Ironically, much of the trans-Mars traffic comes from a change not so much in science as in economics: the new craft are cheap--dirt cheap, by space standards. Engineers at last appear to have learned how to build a spaceship on a budget, and as the costs come down, the ships are going back up. The attitude among space engineers has always been that bigger spacecraft are better, and much bigger ones are better still. But bigger is much more expensive. In 1992 Goldin was recruited from private industry in the hope that he would bring a hardheaded bookkeeper...
...residential glass tower with hanging gardens at the other. Other proposals included a zig-zag span with a ribbon-like tower that twists 800 ft. into the sky and an organic tube in fluorescent pink and green that drew immediate comparisons to an alien spaceship. Nigel Coates, the only architect among the seven for whom Prince Charles has ever shown enthusiasm, designed what from river level looks like two acorns moored to the chassis of a racing car, but which the Daily Telegraph claimed would look from the air like "a giant phallus...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: After spending $3 billion on just eight space flights a year, NASA officials have decided to let the free market trim the budget for them. On Tuesday, they announced Lockheed Martin as the winner of a "bake-off" to develop America's new spaceship, the first redesign since the space shuttle project began in 1972. Lockheed, which will conduct unmanned test flights of its triangle-shaped craft in 1999, will receive just $900 million to develop the new X-33 craft, leaving most of the financial risk to the contractor, and eventually to investors. The three companies...