Ad Astra Volume 16 Number 4 2004

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Ad Astra Volume 16 Number 4 2004

Note: Although this issue is designated “Winter 2005” it is actually the 4th issue of 2004.

ON THE COVER: NSS members Maria Thome, Grant Anderson, and Adam London aboard the inaugural NSS Zero-G charter flight on Sept 17, 2004. Thome is the chapter president from Brasilia, Brazil; Anderson and London are space entrepreneurs.

Featured Articles:

  • 14
    X-PRIZE ENDS IN DESERT DRAMA
    A pair of suborbital spaceflights concludes an eight-year contest and heralds a new space age.
    By John Kross
  • 18
    AN AFFORDABLE TRIP TO WEIGHTLESS SPACE
    Can’t wait for SpaceShipTwo? Zero-gravity ride will leave you head-over-heals.
    By Frank Sietzen, Jr.
  • 21
    INSIDE THE MARS ROVER MISSIONS
    A behind-the-scenes view from the field trip of a lifetime.
    By Bill Farrand
  • 28
    FOR THE ARMCHAIR ASTRONAUT AND BEYOND:
    THE 2004 AD ASTRA GIFT GUIDE

    By Travis K. Kircher
  • 5
    LAUNCH PAD
    Facing a Cosmic Conundrum
    By Greg Allison, Chairman of the Executive Committee
  • 6
    MISSION CONTROL
  • 11
    COUNTDOWN
    When Dreams Take Wings
    By Irene Mona Klotz, Editor in Chief
  • 12
    GUEST SPACE
    Terraforming Earth’s Evil Twin: The Floating Cities of Venus
    By Randa Relich Milliron
  • 33
    SPACE COMMUNITY
    Use It or Lose It, by Clifford R. McMurray
    SEDS-USA Joins Forces with MIT, by Joshua Neubert
    Letters
    NSS Chapters and Projects
  • 48
    LIFTING OFF
    NSS First to Zero-G
    By George T. Whitesides, NSS Executive Director

Ad Astra Volume 16 Number 4 2004

Note: Although this issue is designated “Winter 2005” it is actually the 4th issue of 2004.

ON THE COVER: NSS members Maria Thome, Grant Anderson, and Adam London aboard the inaugural NSS Zero-G charter flight on Sept 17, 2004. Thome is the chapter president from Brasilia, Brazil; Anderson and London are space entrepreneurs.

Featured Articles:

  • 14
    X-PRIZE ENDS IN DESERT DRAMA
    A pair of suborbital spaceflights concludes an eight-year contest and heralds a new space age.
    By John Kross
  • 18
    AN AFFORDABLE TRIP TO WEIGHTLESS SPACE
    Can’t wait for SpaceShipTwo? Zero-gravity ride will leave you head-over-heals.
    By Frank Sietzen, Jr.
  • 21
    INSIDE THE MARS ROVER MISSIONS
    A behind-the-scenes view from the field trip of a lifetime.
    By Bill Farrand
  • 28
    FOR THE ARMCHAIR ASTRONAUT AND BEYOND:
    THE 2004 AD ASTRA GIFT GUIDE

    By Travis K. Kircher
  • 5
    LAUNCH PAD
    Facing a Cosmic Conundrum
    By Greg Allison, Chairman of the Executive Committee
  • 6
    MISSION CONTROL
  • 11
    COUNTDOWN
    When Dreams Take Wings
    By Irene Mona Klotz, Editor in Chief
  • 12
    GUEST SPACE
    Terraforming Earth’s Evil Twin: The Floating Cities of Venus
    By Randa Relich Milliron
  • 33
    SPACE COMMUNITY
    Use It or Lose It, by Clifford R. McMurray
    SEDS-USA Joins Forces with MIT, by Joshua Neubert
    Letters
    NSS Chapters and Projects
  • 48
    LIFTING OFF
    NSS First to Zero-G
    By George T. Whitesides, NSS Executive Director