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| Author: | Schonfeld, E. |
| Title: | The space business heats up |
| Journal: | Fortune
1997 : NOV, VOL. 136:10, p. 52-61 |
| Index terms: | ENTREPRENEURSHIP MONEY ECONOMICS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Kennedy Space Center, Sept. 25, 1997: standing outside the Launch Control Center, Shelley Harrison peers into the Florida evening sky. Four miles away the space shuttle Atlantis is bathed in a blaze of spotlights that would put Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood to shame. Although Harrison is neither a NASA engineer nor an astronaut's uncle, this launch has his stomach in knots. The 4.5 million pound shuttle begins to heave away from gravity's clutches as the rockets' flare lights the horizon like a miniature rising sun. |
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