COOPER: EARTH TRAVEL COULD BENEFIT FROM SPACE PROGRAM

From: The Journal Record | Date: October 24, 1989| Author: BILL MAY | Copyright information
Technological advances made in America's space program will offer increasingly important benefits to travel on earth, according to one of the nation's first astronauts.

The search for an alternative-fuel, clean-burning engine could be intensified if the National Aeronautics and Space Administration were to consider thinking of some splinter groups, retired U.S. Air Force Col. Gordon Cooper said.

"Take electro-magnetic rays from space, as an example," he said during an inter...

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