Thursday, March 1, 2012

Justin Bieber in Space?

Justin Bieber Should Launch Into Space, Scientist Says

Date: 01 March 2012 Time: 07:00 AM ET
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Pop star Justin Bieber could spark a surge of interest in private spaceflight if he ever launched into space.
Pop star Justin Bieber could spark a surge of interest in private spaceflight if he ever launched into space, one scientist says.
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PALO ALTO, Calif. — Just call him the Biebernaut. An astronomer is making a case for launching pop singer Justin Bieber into suborbital space aboard a private rocketship.
The idea is not to rid the world of the Canadian teenager and his pop stylings — he would come back down to Earth eventually, after all — but rather to help jump-start the emerging suborbital spaceflight industry.
Lofting a celebrity of Bieber's stature would generate a lot of interest among the American public, which could help commercial spaceflight pick up some much-needed momentum, said Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute in Mountain View, Calif.

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