Article: ANALYSIS: 2001, BUT STILL NO SPACE ODYSSEY


United Press International
01-01-2001
Analysis: 2001, but still no space odyssey

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- It's 2001 but where's the Space Odyssey?

Scores of millions of homes across the world have personal computers that make
the sinister, paranoid HAL in "2001: A Space Odyssey" look like a grumpy, old
fool. Space shuttles have plied between Cape Canaveral and low-earth orbit for
20 years and low-orbit space stations are a quarter of a century old.

But it will be at least 20 years and probably longer before great big spinning
wheel space stations generating their own artificial gravity 22,000 miles out
will be any more than a pipe dream. No human being has walked on the surface of
the moon for ...

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