SHALL WE WINTER ON MARS OR VENUS?(space travel consumerism predictions)(Brief Article)

From: USA Today (Magazine) | Date: January 1, 2001 | Copyright information

Within about 20 years, space travel will be a common occurrence and become commercialized, enabling those who can afford it another recreational option, predicts Kalmanje Krishnakumar, associate professor of aerospace engineering and mechanics, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. He expects space travel's cost to drop and its frequency to increase.

"By 2020, we will have daily space travel? Krishnakumar forecasts. "It could be one, two, or three flights per day." Space t...

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