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... very strong, according to three sets of disciplined speculation: some role-playing exercises; a set of four universal values shared by all civilizations; and Vulpetti's ... years, we may experience contact in various ways (telescopes, probes, or staffed spacecraft) and with various civilizations. Of all the positive events that humanity will experience over the next 1000 years, interstellar contact ...

Right now, even a seven-year-old could stand the physical stress of a blast off in the Shuttle with no more problem than an adult (although it would ... -forces that push against you when the ship is escaping to space only last for a very short time and no damage actually occurs to healthy individuals. However, staying in space ... process since gravity is needed for strong bones, muscles and growing organs. Even adults have a problem with bones and muscles getting weaker in space, so we have to solve the ...

... so grand a spectacle. The rings, shining with the lustre of the moon, will constantly arch the heavens. From the effect of perspective, the ... to disturb the course of the smallest bodies it came in contact with; and the mass of the heavenly bodies is determined by ... a coil of the spiral. To expand this ring to its true dimensions; we must remember that a ray of light would probably take a thousand years ...

... what, one year at Purdue or two years? '''Armstrong:''' A year and a half. It was supposed to be two years, but I ... new guys come in, we had a bit of a gap, in my perspective. Too many people were—they ... of out of radio contact most of the time, and when we were in contact , it was over ... a much younger man. But nevertheless, the creative ideas that they have put forth, that have caused a thousand … ...

... . At about oh three meters, you got a contact light , that little probe hits the surface, ... you begin to see the world in a true perspective for the first time. The horizon ... and I was making a grand total of about $48,000 a year. That's a big jump from ... a lot of people who weren't selected for space program and should have been? You bet. For every guy who walked on the Moon there's another thousand ...

... . activities from a relatively small town in Colorado. Greeley is where I grew up, and it was about thirty-five or forty thousand people then ... do, but it was fascinating to watch, and I got a really good perspective, because there were people from all over. And Bill was just ... least I sort of had contact with him all those years later. We had a lot of juggling to do, because we had a lot of places to ...

... Center, Mississippi, yet. “We’ve got some up at Rockwell International . We’re paying thousands of dollars a year to keep this thing in dry nitrogen, and we’ll never fly it again ... go out on a limb for us, and here’s a company that shipped forty or fifty thousand dollars’ worth of hardware, and they didn’t as much as have a written purchase request ... various people from the security divisions, from the White House. I was sort of a point of contact. I stayed in my office, answered the phones. We had two-way radios to ...

... were doing and that I was going to be there for a three-year tour. After a year, I got called in to Washington DC , and Jim James E ... things we were doing. We'd had a lot of direct contact with them. So I think there was a lot of trust back and forth. There ... the human body in space, which, of course, was limited, what was your perspective on getting to the Moon? At the time, did you predict what ...

... over the past 4 billion years, gravity alone did not change. Even in the close orbital environment of Earth's low-Earth-orbit front yard, life experiences a thousand-fold to million-fold ... to profound biological changes. But in this fact, opportunities arise. From a biological perspective, space can also be thought of as a new "extreme" environment - extremely low gravity. Because of this, space ...

... studies. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Aerospace Engineer 1966-1970 (4.5 years) Lunar module simulation training instructor in Apollo Program for the National ... 141, 1977. Laser Powered Interstellar Ramjet, D. Whitmire and A. A. Jackson, ''Journal of the British Interplanetary Society'', 30, 223, 1977. Laser Powered Interstellar Rocket, A. A. Jackson and D. Whitmire, ...

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