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From: The Write Stuff - Orlando Sentinel <online@orlandosentinel.com>
Date: December 7, 2012 7:17:35 AM CST
To: bobbygmartin1938@gmail.com
Subject: The Write Stuff

The Write Stuff


Fly me to the moon? Can do, for $1.5B

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:18 PM PST

By Mark K. Matthews, Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — The idea sounds so preposterous that even its backers admit it seems lifted from the pages of an Isaac Asimov novel.

But the architects of a new aerospace company plan to do what kids have dreamed about since the Apollo age: create a business that can blast tourists to the moon — maybe by the end of the decade.

"This sounds like science fiction. We intend to make it science fact," said Alan Stern, a former NASA science director who is now leading the company behind the moonshot effort, dubbed Golden Spike.

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