Space profits
Article Abstract:
The decline of government space programs due to lack of political will means that private enterprise must now fund mankind's conquest of space. Driven by their quests for profits, these companies have already taken the first steps toward the eventual colonization and industrialization of the solar system.
Publication Name: Analog Science Fiction & Fact
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 1059-2113
Year: 1995
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The voice of authority
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History is replete with pronouncements by scientists that dismissed discoveries which were to ultimately affect mankind. For example, Nikola Testa, the pioneer of electricity predicted that airplanes would never replace the dirigible balloon.
Publication Name: Analog Science Fiction & Fact
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 1059-2113
Year: 1997
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Slowboat to the stars!
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While physicists and science fiction writers have focused endlessly to solve the light-speed limit, it is biologists who have come up trumps with a solution.
Publication Name: Analog Science Fiction & Fact
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 1059-2113
Year: 2000
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