Now as we are rapidly approaching the Millennium many people are getting the blues. This seems absurd because this offers all of us a perfect chance to start again. NASA is embracing this chance to grow and expand their departments. The phrase, "Space, the final frontier," expresses the world's obsession with space travel, that started centuries before it even became popular 30 years ago in Gene Roddenberry's TV series "Star Trek." Science fiction has entertained our culture for years. Movies such as Star Wars and Planet of the Apes have helped fuel our desire to get off the planet earth, find new life forms, and conquer the stars. Science-fiction dreams of worlds beyond our solar system have taken on a more realistic aspect since astronomers discovered that the universe contains planets in surprisingly large numbers. Studying those distant planets might show how special Earth really is and tell us more about our place in the universe (NASA homepage). Finding a planet that......

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Title: Star Traveling To The Millennium
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Approximate Pages: 9 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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