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Word: kite (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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...price of a ticket to the moon, in the children's nursery rhyme, was a single foundling penny and the method of transportation a kite. For the rocket-borne commercial space traveler of the future, the tab will be considerably higher-but still astonishingly low. In a detailed cost analysis presented to last week's international space symposium in Stockholm, three Douglas Aircraft Co. engineers estimated that a scant $500 should one day cover basic costs of one passenger's round-trip transportation, by nuclear spaceship, to the moon. The price to Mars: $4,000 during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ticket to the Moon | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

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