Posted on 04/26/2007 6:42:59 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Space travel isn't for the faint of heart. It also isn't for the impatient.
In an age of tight federal budgets and cautious flight plans, improvements in space flight come in small, steady steps.
But that didn't discourage 30 start-ups at a NASA/Ames Research Center-sponsored showcase of technologies Tuesday from touting wares that could find their way into future space missions. Many said that as the science of space exploration expands, missions are becoming significantly more sophisticated.
Change won't be rapid, said Pascal Lee, chairman of the Vancouver-based Mars Institute, which in January opened an office on the NASA/Ames campus on Moffett Field in Mountain View.
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