Ad Astra Volume 15 Number 4 2003

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Ad Astra Volume 15 Number 4 2003

ON THE COVER: NSS Photographer Joe Marino captures space shuttle Columbia in a time-exposed lift off in 1999.

Featured Articles:

  • 14
    Burt Rutan’s Personal Space
    Aviation maverick Burt Rutan has his eye on the prize—the X Prize to be precise—and is building a means to capture it.
    By Rob Loughran
  • 18
    Rocketcam
    Go along for the ride with Ecliptic Technologies innovative tools for keeping an eye on Space.
    By Rebecca Stowers
  • 20
    A Woman of Space
    In an excerpt from the new book Women
    of Space: Cool Careers on the Final Frontier
    , meet a woman who dreams of building a Noah’s Ark for space.
    By Laura S. Woodmansee
  • 24
    The Spaceships that Never Were
    Drawing board or desert flat – these next gen craft never quite got the green light.
    By Travis K. Kircher
  • 32
    My Trip to Mars
    NSS photographer Jim Marino suits up, trains, and joins the 400,000-plus who have already made the journey to Mars.
    By Joe Marino
  • 38
    The New Etiquette of Propulsion
    That disc-shaped thing in the sky? Maybe
    it’s one of ours. The future of propulsion technology is that exotic…
    By Meg Baker
  • 41
    Honoring Heroes
    The U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame welcomes its four newest inductees.
  • 4 Launch Pad
  • 6 Mission Control
  • 10 Policy Insight
  • 11 Countdown
  • 12 Guest Space
  • 42 Space Community
  • 48 Lifting Off

Ad Astra Volume 15 Number 4 2003

ON THE COVER: NSS Photographer Joe Marino captures space shuttle Columbia in a time-exposed lift off in 1999.

Featured Articles:

  • 14
    Burt Rutan’s Personal Space
    Aviation maverick Burt Rutan has his eye on the prize—the X Prize to be precise—and is building a means to capture it.
    By Rob Loughran
  • 18
    Rocketcam
    Go along for the ride with Ecliptic Technologies innovative tools for keeping an eye on Space.
    By Rebecca Stowers
  • 20
    A Woman of Space
    In an excerpt from the new book Women
    of Space: Cool Careers on the Final Frontier
    , meet a woman who dreams of building a Noah’s Ark for space.
    By Laura S. Woodmansee
  • 24
    The Spaceships that Never Were
    Drawing board or desert flat – these next gen craft never quite got the green light.
    By Travis K. Kircher
  • 32
    My Trip to Mars
    NSS photographer Jim Marino suits up, trains, and joins the 400,000-plus who have already made the journey to Mars.
    By Joe Marino
  • 38
    The New Etiquette of Propulsion
    That disc-shaped thing in the sky? Maybe
    it’s one of ours. The future of propulsion technology is that exotic…
    By Meg Baker
  • 41
    Honoring Heroes
    The U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame welcomes its four newest inductees.
  • 4 Launch Pad
  • 6 Mission Control
  • 10 Policy Insight
  • 11 Countdown
  • 12 Guest Space
  • 42 Space Community
  • 48 Lifting Off