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-From: lord@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca (Jason Cooper)
-Newsgroups: sci.space
-Subject: ** BUSSARD RAMSCOOP **
-Date: 24 Dec 92 17:18:53 GMT
-Organization: TradeNET International Trade Corp.

-Was told to put this message in this area to get more replies, so here 
-it is.  I'm doing a science fair project on the Bussard Ramscoop, and am 
-looking for ANY help I can get on the scientific end of it.  I'm looking 
-for help specifically on the general theory end of it (things like what 
-polarity the field must be, how best to ionize the hydrogen, how best to 
-FUSE the hydrogen, etc, all already worked out, but in need of checking 
-by somebody who KNOWS what they're doing).  

There's an article on interstellar travel in the January/February 1993
issue of Stardate magazine, which contains a three-page section on
ramscoop spacecraft. It also mentions that R.W. Bussard's original paper
came out in 1960, and that one variant of an electromagnetic collector
was proposed in 1977.

The magazine is put out by McDonald Observatory of the University of Texas
at Austin. The phone number for the magazine is given as (512) 471-5285.

John Roberts
roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov