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<text id=90TT0184>
<title>
Jan. 22, 1990: Grapevine:Outer Space Trial Balloon
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<history>
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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