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Shooting for the moon - and a $20 million prize
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Adil Jafry knew little about space. But when he heard there was a
$20 million prize for the first team that could build a privately
funded space craft and land it on the moon by 2012, he figured he
could learn.
The 35-year-old energy executive, who was born the same year NASA
ended its Apollo missions, snatched up 26 books from Amazon.com two
months ago, and has been reading such titles as "Destination Space:
Making Science Fiction a Reality" ever since.
"So here I am," he said...
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