Ad Astra Volume 14 Number 5 2002

ON THE COVER: Our cover illustration represents the new generation of diverse talents in the space world’s orbit. Illustration: Barton Stabler/Artville.

Featured Articles:

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  FINAL FRONTIER: DIVERSITY AND TODAY’S NASA
  An extraordinarly diverse workforce populates today’s NASA it’s not your father’s space program anymore!
  By David Schlom
• 19
  NASA WANTS YOU!
  Uncle NASA takes his message to the best and the brightest to fill the agency’s ranks.
  By Travis K. Kircher
• 22
  THE MANY DIMENSIONS OF SPACE DIVERSITY: JAPAN
  Diversity and cultural dichotomy in the land of the rising sun.
  By Joan Freese
• 26
  A JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND MILES: CHINA’S MANNED SPACE FLIGHT EFFORT
  China’s manned space flight effort shifts into high gear. Are “taikonauts” soon headed for the Moon?
  By Travis K. Kircher
• 30
  CHINA’S LONG MARCH TO SPACE
  The Chinese are making steady progress with their space program will they be collaborator’s or competitors?
  By Rebecca Stowers
• 32
  ROOM WITH A VIEW
  Start saving those frequent flier miles… You’ll want to put this potential hotel on your vacation list!
  By Matt Brewer
• 35
  THE SPACE SETTLEMENT INITIATIVE
  Stake your claim! Frontier-style land ownership as a catalyst for space settlement
  By Alan Wasser
• 41
  STRUGGLES OF THE FATHER
  Undaunted by disability, circumstance, and politics: the extraordinary life of Russia’s visionary space theory pioneer.
  By Aimée deChambeau