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Spacecraft and space travel sectors have several companies actively manufacturing rocket ships, spacecraft, and navigational systems. The British company Viigin Galactic and the American company Space Adventures operate spacecraft, and private citizens can book flights, although it is extremely expensive. [Pg.166]

In October 1960, veteran artist Steve Ditko created a new character for Charlton Comics Space Adventures, Captain Atom. An air force pilot. Captain Adam, drops a screwdriver while working on a nuclear test missile, and the missile takes off while he is searching for it. The subsequent explosion turns Adam into "Captain Atom, the Indestructible Man," who carries "an atomic punch in each fist." Forced to devise a body shield to protect others from his radiation. Captain Atom receives a special commission from the president to defend law and order. He does so immediately by capturing a stray hydrogen-tipped missile, which causes the president to remark, "With your help, perhaps all of us can live in a world of peace. " Later, DC Comics acquired the character and in the 1980s gave him both a new costume and new "quantum" powers. [Pg.116]

Sugiura K (2003) An Adventure in Macromolecular Chemistry Based on the Achievements of Dendrimer Science Molecular Design, Synthesis, and Some Basic Properties of Cyclic Porphyrin Oligomers to Create a Functional Nano-Sized Space. 228 65-85 Sun J-Q, Bartlett RJ (1999) Modern Correlation Theories for Extended, Periodic Systems. 203 121-145... [Pg.238]

Bond, N. (1974) The Monster from Nowhere, in As Tomorrow Becomes Today, Charles W. Sullivan, ed. New York Prentice-Hall. (Originally published in Fantastic Adventures, July 1939.) Humans trap a 4-D creamre in our world. Also see Nelson Bond s 1943 short story That Worlds May Live that describes hyperspace propulsion systems. Bond describes a qaudridimen-sional drive, the first artificial space warp into the fourth dimension—created by Jovian scientists. The Jovians create a four-dimensional space warp between points in three-dimensional space. A magnetized flux field warps three-dimensional space in the direction of travel.. . . It s as easy as that. ... [Pg.177]

Knowledge Adventure, Inc., Our home the Milky Way Galaxy, http //www.letsfmdout.com/subjects/space/galaxy.html (Web page now defunct.)... [Pg.199]

What have the past Apollo adventure projects provided beyond adventure Scientists have skillfully studied weightlessness. Extensive space sickness studies have been carried out to keep the crew healthy. Yet, what benefits have come to the 6 billion people of the world on the ground After 40 years, is it time to examine the hard results ... [Pg.35]


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