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Space Tourism
Will you be travelling to space anytime soon? What about your children? Richard Branson is betting that the answer is yes. I think not. 
Space travel remains incredibly dangerous and that is not about to change. My article at TechCentralStation, Is Space Tourism Ready for Takeoff? lays out the facts.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on November 18, 2004 at 08:30 AM in Science | Permalink
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