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(Tina Sjogren) Russia and China hustle to colonize the moon and no one is sure what NASA is up to. Meanwhile rocket science goes private, and it's a global thing. His company joined the Ansari X PRIZE in 2002 and went on to become one of the leading contenders. Now he wants to build a supersonic high altitude airplane and win the Google Lunar X Prize competition. Here goes an ExWeb interview with Romanian engineer Dumitru Popescu who dropped out of school to take on a national space industry at the tender age of 21. ExplorersWeb: You left University in your third year of Aerospace Engineering to found ARCA. Why the...
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