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… Youll 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 Russias 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… Youll 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 Russias visionary space theory pioneer.
By Aimée deChambeau
- 4 Launch Pad
- 6 Mission Control
- 45 Space Community
- 48 Lifting Off
