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Illustrations Following page 132 . Gerard O’Neill with a photograph of the Bernal sphere . Cutaway view of a Stanford Torus . Fell Peters testing the nose cone of the Volksrocket . Atlas rocket vernier engines . Robert Truax with his x- . The Voskhod space crew . Christa McAuliffe on the kc- . sts -d payload specialists . Bill Nelson preparing to eat a freshly peeled grapefruit . The Soyuz tm- space crew . Helen Sharman during a medical examination . Alexei Leonov seeing off the Soyuz TM- crew . Walt Anderson standing in front of a Soyuz capsule . Negotiating the MirCorp lease . Dennis Tito, Talgat Musabayev, and Yuri Baturin,  April  . Soyuz rocket . Anousheh Ansari . Eric Anderson and Richard Garriott . Gary Hudson next to Rotary Rocket’s Roton atv . Roton atv on display . Jeff Greason in front of xcor’s ez-Rocket vehicle . Rick Searfoss in front of the ez-Rocket . Peter Diamandis and Bob Richards, September  . Rocket models of x prize competing teams . Brian Feeney at the  X Cup . Burt Rutan with a model of SpaceShipOne . SpaceShipOne attached to White Knight . Mission control at Scaled Composites . Mike Melvill riding on top of SpaceShipOne . Brian Binnie and Mike Melvill in front of SpaceShipOne . Ansari x prize successful flight celebration . Per Wimmer with models of WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo . Sir Richard Branson standing beside SpaceShipOne,  June  . Sir Richard Branson with Burt Rutan during rollout of WhiteKnightTwo . Elon Musk in front of Falcon  engines,  January  . Spaceport America concept design . The Russian-Ukrainian-American launch team in front of the Dnepr Space Head Module . Artist’s conception of Bigelow Aerospace’s first Orbital Space Complex . Sir Richard Branson in front of WhiteKnightTwo . Sir Richard Branson and Burt Rutan with vms Eve and vss Enterprise,  December  ...

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