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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Space travel visionary

In the 1990s, when I was writing about space far more regularly than I currently do, I found a valuable source of information and ideas to be Tom Rogers, scientist, former Defense official and founder of the Space Transportation Association. Rogers, who has now passed away, was a visionary of private-sector space travel, an idea that, as Rand Simberg points out, is taken a lot more seriously because of Rogers' work.