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- Jan. 22, 1990: Grapevine:Outer Space Trial Balloon
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Jan. 22, 1990 A Murder In Boston
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 25
- Grapevine
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- <body>
- <p> OUTER SPACE TRIAL BALLOON. NASA is under pressure to
- consider cheaper alternatives to its $400 billion plan for a
- manned mission to Mars. Engineers at the Livermore Laboratory
- in California say stations on the moon, and later on Mars,
- could be built out of inflatable plastic balloons for only $10
- billion. The idea could be punctured by a big drawback: a
- 1-in-10 chance that the balloons could burst.
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- </body>
- </article>
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