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Article: Group wants to fly tourists to the moon
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- November 3, 1996
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You have scaled Hawaiian volcanoes to watch an eclipse. You've
bounced in Chinese trucks across the Gobi Desert looking for dinosaur
eggs. You have ridden a mountain bike through the Yucatan to
explore vine-choked ruins. So what's next for the extreme tourist?
The moon?
It could happen, although the trip might depend more on private
enterprise than the government. Now that the Cold War is over,
Congress' enthusiasm for mankind in space rises no higher than a
scaled-down space station. It might require private enterprise's
instinct for profit and an adventurer's sense of excitement and
curiosity to get travelers back to the moon.
Perhaps that's the way it has always been. After the ...