January/February 2009
The Geological Strata of Things
Old technologies seldom die; they get upgraded.
By Jason Pontin
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Jason Pontin, Editor in Chief and Publisher.
Credit: Mark Ostow |
Mark Shuttleworth, a South African Internet tycoon who paid tens of millions of dollars to go to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz craft, recounts his arrival in space--blinking, wondering, and weightless after the fire, shaking, and acceleration of liftoff--in Adam Fisher's oral history of space tourism ("'Very Stunning, Very Space, and Very Cool'"):
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