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Article: The rocket leaving from Gate 18 ...
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 18, 1996
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The guide book has already been written. When the first
Shuttle- load of tourists touch down on the Sea of Tranquillity,
they can consult a guide to the Moon, published this year by a
Californian company with the appropriate name of Moon Publications.
Space tourism is here, and it's big business. Even in election year
in Washington DC, the White House tour loses out in visitor
interest to the Air and Space Museum. Within a mile, the tourist to
the American capital can see two great early Sixties icons: the
portrait of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis hanging in the hub of
government; or the tiny Mercury capsule in which John Glenn orbited
the earth in 1962. Ten million people each year choose the ...
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