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... third stage ( Titan IIIB ) before being equipped with two enormous strap-on solid rockets developed by United Technologies . The boosters generated 1.3 million pounds of thrust each, creating a ... ) might have been unnecessary, the Dyna-Soar antipodal hypersonic space-bomber might have replaced both and been virtually unstoppable. Now this may seem like Monday-night quarter-backing but ...

... , new and more positive motivations are now appearing on the scene as private enterprise, supplemented by the enthusiasm of wealthy entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk, Robert Branson, Paul Allen, and Jeff ... novels about the "uplift wars." This new "Post-Human Space Program" will need to be both broad enough and deep enough to encompass all sentient life in the universe, including humans ...

... and would like to have space preserved as a purely scientific frontier, with laboratories funded by private companies for the purpose of scientific research and development of resources. Some feel that ... from space or in evaluating the effects of space travel on our environment, they are both curious and concerned about our own planet. With respect to the future, many students eagerly ...

... of the Soviet Union be very careful himself. This is the best defense we have both against the other fellow and against ourselves... ''(7) To be fair, it must be ... GRBs is optimal, along with the ''simultaneous ''conception and preparation of responsible protections or countermeasures by our world's militaries, working together. '''Three critical applications for space solar power (SSP). ''' ...

... network Global food allocation and production enhancement Brain drain Regulation of Multi Nationals Compiled by Franklyn P. Huddle, Congressional Research Service; "Science, Technology and Diplomacy in the Age of ... beneficiaries of the initiative? Who pays the costs? And how will the equity be achieved? ... both in fact and in perception. Question 2: What scale of constituency has to be ...

... to take its rightful place in the astronautical field."'' Image:CASmemo1958.jpg thumb right '''Submission by the Canadian Astronautical Society to Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, January 1959, John Diefenbaker and George ... jobs in the Canadian missile and electronics industry caused by this cancellation began a brain drain of experts to other countries. Since both Velvet Glove and Sparrow II had been cancelled Canadair was keen to stop these losses and so was on the lookout for a new missile program. The experience learned by Canadair ...

... him unique access to the many engineers building the ''Atlas'' missile at ''Convair''. Both companies were owned by General Dynamics of New York. On April 7th Bogdanoff hosted H.F. Dunholter, Convair ... 20 ---- '''Go to Chapter''' The Empire Strikes Out - Canada's Defence & The Commonwealth Space Program by Robert Godwin 1 - The Empire Strikes Out - Canada's Defence & The Commonwealth Space Program - Part ...

... theory appeared in his article (as translated from the Russian), "The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices,” in the popular Russian science journal ''Nauchnoye Obozreniye'' (''Scientific Review'') (Saint ... was considerably expanded in 1929 with another work by Oberth, ''Wege zur Raumschiffahrt'' (''Ways to Space Flight'') virtually helped pave the way for both a renewed interest in the rocket as applied ...

... everything from eclipses of distant planets by the moon, to the Newtonian possibilities of accurate flight in a vacuum, and the impact of a vacuum on both sound and light. ref 27 He also made a throwaway comment about “electric light”, an invention first demonstrated by Humphry Davy in 1809 but still ... . Remarkably he even postulated the notion that ''“We could readily conceive a code of signals by which telegraphic communication could be carried on.” ''Today the word ''telegraphic'' implies radio, or possibly ...

... his circumstances. He even seems to have had some inkling of these natural tendencies from both the macroscopic and microscopic worlds, comparing tree rings to spiral galaxies, and in some ... 1860 note 39 '' Media:1865_Notman_Portraits.pdf Portraits of British North Americans '' by William Notman, Montreal, 1865 note 40 ''Globe'', Toronto, Nov. 10, 1860 ...

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