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... work. The oft-cited Chinese adventurer Wan Hu, with his rocket propelled chair, is almost certainly an example of complete fiction; very likely created in the early 20th century. Then there is the French satirist Cyrano De Bergerac. Born in 1619, Cyrano was a soldier in the French army who was well known ...

... was born in the small town of Giessen, Hesse, Germany, in 1919 and as a youngster, as he afterwards recalled, he was initially captivated with rocketry and the notions of spaceflight during the international ... that the roots of the more prominent CRS group No. 2 may have actually dated back to as early as the late 1930's by the German-born Kurt Stehling who had been captivated by the “rocket and spaceflight fad” of the 1920s that had started in his ...

... the problem steerable airship came closer, I was following my own experience on the side of flight technology after the announcement of the flying machine project of Hiram Maxim…” (Hiram Maxim, 1840-1916, the American-born ... he hoped to use electricity as the driving force, “or a gas engine, the gas taken from the balloon.” In his classic work, ''Progress in Flying Machines'', the French-born aviation pioneer Octave Chanute reported ...

... rise, work like hell and advertise," are a testament to multi-tasking. Von Braun, the German-born rocket scientist and visionary of space flight, convinced presidents and congressmen to spend millions exploring space for peaceful purposes. But what of our first space heroes after the Apollo program was ...

... C R. Hume The RCA Satcom Satellite 556 - Alan Brown Some Aspects of Planning of the 12 GHz Band for Satellite Broadcasting 569 - T. M. B. Wright SPAS – The Space-Borne Angle Beacon 577 - Dr. D. Rother Use of the Spacelab for Technological Tasks, Especially ...

... the homogenous 1g environment. Any change in these environmental conditions could alter the genetic makeup of these life forms. Puppies born from female Russian space dogs after space travel were normal. Baby rats born ... , under protection from radiation, animals born in space will not be mutants. ---- Answer provided by Bijal Thakore Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by ...

... an accomplished newspaper editor. Toker was born in England and had worked in Australia before ending up in Canada. His newspapers, the ''Peterborough Review'', ''The Weekly Review'' and the ''Daily Evening Review'' were filled ... to make it plain to the slowest intellect among us, what is gained by having been born in the twentieth century, instead of in the nineteenth, and by being born a Canadian, instead of to ...

... in Russia, a boy named Konstantin was born to the Tsiolkovsky family. The young Tsiolkovsky loved to read and he remembered having a happy childhood. At the age of nine he contracted scarlet fever ... Von Braun. Wernher von Braun , born in 1912, and destined to become the most famous rocket maker in history also knew, thanks to Oberth, that the rocket was the best solution for space travel ...

... sent to the International Space Station in the Japanese Experimental Module ''Kibo '' (“Hope”). Here are the first and some following verses of that ''renshi'' : We children of the stars / children of space / born in the oceans and matured on land / have the history of the universe / its hundreds ...

... , our solar system was born out of the original protoplanetary nebula and gas-dust disk around the forming star. The disk compressed, its density increased, and as gravity instabilities within the disk developed solid grains ... this phenomenon: “The term Space Weather generally refers to conditions on the Sun and in the solar wind, magnetosphere, ionosphere, and thermosphere that can influence the performance and reliability of space-borne and ground-based ...

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