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Send Message| (43)    I can insert Star Trek references all day
long, but I won't. To be brutally honest, the Trekkie fan in me
tends to make an appearance almost every time I catch wind of
new technological breakthroughs that have anything remotely to
do with space travel.  Who doesn't, really? But I digress -
maybe it's just me. Apologies to all the non sci-fi fans out
there …  However, I think that all of you would agree with me
that space does present infinite possibilities, especially when
it comes to investment opportunities. Case in point: Orbital
Sciences Corp. (ORB).  Based in Virginia, Orbital was founded in
1980 by three Harvard Business School students who won a NASA
space research contest. They incorporated in 1982 and signed an
agreement to sell its first space vehicle to NASA one year
later.  NASA paid $35 million for Orbital's Transfer Orbit Stage
- an upper stage mech