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Article: `On your left is Mars'-prof set for space tours
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 19, 1986
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If most space travel will be by tourists, think of Paul Sipiera
as a tour guide.
Sipiera, 37, is one of a dozen advisers to a privately run
program that plans to orbit paying passengers starting on Columbus
Day, 1992. His fee? A free seat on many of the flights.
"I love space, and I love my profession," said Sipiera, a
professor of earth sciences at Harper College in Palatine. "I intend
to be on board as a lecturer for some of these flights. I would love
to give a lecture on continental drift from 110 miles up."
Society Expeditions of Seattle is marketing eight- to 12-hour,
five- to eight-orbit missions for 20 passengers and five crew
members. Its partner in the venture, Pacific ...