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Article: Beyond the Space Age.
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- Designfax
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- December 1, 1999
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Design contest aims to revolutionize space travel
Who knows what life on earth would be like if ordinary people had the ability to see it from a different perspective...to view the ecosystem from space and watch our 8,000-mile-diameter planet--with its one natural satellite, all 92 million miles from the sun--spinning through the stars amidst the infinite wonder of the universe.
Soon the ordinary may experience the extraordinary through the efforts of dozens of small teams around the world working to make privatized space travel a reality, says Designfax reader and Boeing technical fellow William G. Roeseler. Roeseler is a founding member of the Canyon ...