For Love, Profit, or Glory

From Popular Science, May 2004

Personality profiles of the three varieties of would-be cosmic adventurer.
Von Brauninans
Essential Quality: Pride
Goal: Be first to plant the flag around the universe
Hurdle: Lack of sustained competition
Role Model: Sir Francis Drake
Most Hoped-For Technology: Asteroid defense shield
If They Were A Dog Breed, They'd Be A... German shepherd
Inflight Movie: Apollo 13
On the Bookshelf: The Right Stuff
Freudian Personality Part: Ego
Celebrity Cachet: Tom Hanks (produced From the Earth to the Moon, a TV miniseries about the space race)
Words To Live By: "We choose to go to the Moon in this decade, and to do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." -John F. Kennedy