Space tourism, and the unspoken US victory in space

The kernal of truth in that claim is that Al Gore lead the congressional
fight to fund the Internet.

On Wednesday, June 5, 2002, at 08:34 AM, panamabob wrote:

> Naw Your wrong there. The internet was invented by a tennessean
> politician
> in his garage between jobs.

The materials in one asteroid (the largest ) are sufficient to make
orbital space colonies with ~500 times the surface area of the Earth in
usable real estate. See http://lifesci3.arc.nasa.gov/SpaceSettlement/
for details.

Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html