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Barnstormers in Space

Jesse Walker | 8.4.2003 9:40 AM


Johnathan Briggs profiles an assortment of D.I.Y. engineers striving for the X Prize: $10 million for the first privately funded voyage to the edge of outer space. They remind me a bit of the old Association of Autonomous Astronauts -- except some of these folks might actually make it.

Books Editor Jesse Walker is the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.