Ad Astra Volume 14 Number 5 2002

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Ad Astra Volume 14 Number 5 2002

ON THE COVER: Our cover illustration represents the new generation of diverse talents in the space world’s orbit. Illustration: Barton Stabler/Artville.

Featured Articles:

  • 12
    FINAL FRONTIER: DIVERSITY AND TODAY’S NASA
    An extraordinarly diverse workforce populates today’s NASA it’s not your father’s space program anymore!
    By David Schlom
  • 19
    NASA WANTS YOU!
    Uncle NASA takes his message to the best and the brightest to fill the agency’s ranks.
    By Travis K. Kircher
  • 22
    THE MANY DIMENSIONS OF SPACE DIVERSITY: JAPAN
    Diversity and cultural dichotomy in the land of the rising sun.
    By Joan Freese
  • 26
    A JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND MILES: CHINA’S MANNED SPACE FLIGHT EFFORT
    China’s manned space flight effort shifts into high gear. Are “taikonauts” soon headed for the Moon?
    By Travis K. Kircher
  • 30
    CHINA’S LONG MARCH TO SPACE
    The Chinese are making steady progress with their space program will they be collaborator’s or competitors?
    By Rebecca Stowers
  • 32
    ROOM WITH A VIEW
    Start saving those frequent flier miles… You’ll want to put this potential hotel on your vacation list!
    By Matt Brewer
  • 35
    THE SPACE SETTLEMENT INITIATIVE
    Stake your claim! Frontier-style land ownership as a catalyst for space settlement
    By Alan Wasser
  • 41
    STRUGGLES OF THE FATHER
    Undaunted by disability, circumstance, and politics: the extraordinary life of Russia’s visionary space theory pioneer.
    By Aimée deChambeau
  • 4 Launch Pad
  • 6 Mission Control
  • 45 Space Community
  • 48 Lifting Off

Ad Astra Volume 14 Number 5 2002

ON THE COVER: Our cover illustration represents the new generation of diverse talents in the space world’s orbit. Illustration: Barton Stabler/Artville.

Featured Articles:

  • 12
    FINAL FRONTIER: DIVERSITY AND TODAY’S NASA
    An extraordinarly diverse workforce populates today’s NASA it’s not your father’s space program anymore!
    By David Schlom
  • 19
    NASA WANTS YOU!
    Uncle NASA takes his message to the best and the brightest to fill the agency’s ranks.
    By Travis K. Kircher
  • 22
    THE MANY DIMENSIONS OF SPACE DIVERSITY: JAPAN
    Diversity and cultural dichotomy in the land of the rising sun.
    By Joan Freese
  • 26
    A JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND MILES: CHINA’S MANNED SPACE FLIGHT EFFORT
    China’s manned space flight effort shifts into high gear. Are “taikonauts” soon headed for the Moon?
    By Travis K. Kircher
  • 30
    CHINA’S LONG MARCH TO SPACE
    The Chinese are making steady progress with their space program will they be collaborator’s or competitors?
    By Rebecca Stowers
  • 32
    ROOM WITH A VIEW
    Start saving those frequent flier miles… You’ll want to put this potential hotel on your vacation list!
    By Matt Brewer
  • 35
    THE SPACE SETTLEMENT INITIATIVE
    Stake your claim! Frontier-style land ownership as a catalyst for space settlement
    By Alan Wasser
  • 41
    STRUGGLES OF THE FATHER
    Undaunted by disability, circumstance, and politics: the extraordinary life of Russia’s visionary space theory pioneer.
    By Aimée deChambeau
  • 4 Launch Pad
  • 6 Mission Control
  • 45 Space Community
  • 48 Lifting Off