Working at NASA a few years ago I saw an old painting of voyager's path through space over the next several million years. In that time it will pass close (relatively speaking) to more than a half a dozen stars. For a moment I was taken into this artist's imagination, and saw the vision of humanity setting out on a voyage far beyond all previous scope of space and time. I returned this year to where the painting had been and it was gone. Speaks a lot for the problems facing NASA from inside and out.
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http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/abstract/32 0Zubrin.html
http://www.southpole.com/headlines/y2000/ast04oct_ 1.htm
http://www.itsf.org/resources/factsheet.php?fsID=7 8
Working at NASA a few years ago I saw an old painting of voyager's path through space over the next several million years. In that time it will pass close (relatively speaking) to more than a half a dozen stars. For a moment I was taken into this artist's imagination, and saw the vision of humanity setting out on a voyage far beyond all previous scope of space and time. I returned this year to where the painting had been and it was gone. Speaks a lot for the problems facing NASA from inside and out.