Coach Class Tickets to Space?

Coach Class Tickets to Space?

Getting there is half the fun, goes the old saw about travel. But in space travel, it's the cost, an expensive ticket that chains most plans for exploration to the Earth.

Cutting the cost will take "looking in strange places for the right answers," says Gary Lyles director of the Advanced Space Transportation Program at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. Lyles spoke at the opening of the 10th annual Advanced Propulsion Research Workshop held by NASA, Marshall, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

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Linda Porter
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