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Yuri Gagarin Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He became the first human to journey into outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed one orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. Gagarin became an international celebrity and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, his nation's highest honour. Vostok 1 was his only spaceflight, but he served as the backup crew to the Soyuz 1 mission, which ended in a fatal crash. Gagarin later served as the deputy training director of the Cosmonaut
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Doctor Who: The First Adventure Doctor Who: The First Adventure is a computer game based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who" released for the BBC Micro in 1983. It was written by Jeremy Ruston. It featured the Fifth Doctor, despite only seeing one pixel as "The Doctor", as the player ventured through four mini-games which went by levels of completion which were Doctor Who themed versions of Pac-Man, Frogger, Space Invaders and Battleship. The first level called "Labyrinth of Death" was based on Pac-Man. Level 2, "The Prison" was a Frogger type game. The third level,
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Paul J. Weitz Paul Joseph Weitz (July 25, 1932 – October 22, 2017) was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, who flew into space twice. He was a member of the three-man crew who flew on Skylab 2, the first manned Skylab mission. He was also Commander of the STS-6 mission, the first of the Space Shuttle "Challenger" flights. Paul J. Weitz was born in 1932 in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States. He went on to complete a master's degree in engineering and was a pilot in the Navy. He went on to be
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director, initially for three television films about space exploration. The initial broadcast devoted to space exploration was "Man in Space", which first went on air on March 9, 1955, drawing 40 million viewers. Later (in 1959) von Braun published a short booklet, condensed from episodes that had appeared in "This Week Magazine" before—describing his updated concept of the first manned lunar landing. The scenario included only a single and relatively small spacecraft—a winged lander with a crew of only two experienced pilots who had already circumnavigated the Moon on an earlier mission. The brute-force direct ascent flight schedule used a
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space". He then collapses completely, breathing his last. The story idea for "First Man into Space" was conceived by Vetter, then the partner of producer Gordon. Several script elements for the film came from an original script written by Wyott Ordung titled "Satellite of Blood". Ordung showed the script to AIP, who ultimately rejected it. However, Alex Gordon of AIP sent the script over to his brother, who liked its plot ideas; several elements from Ordung's script were then combined with Vetter's story. As a result, Ordung later acknowledged "First Man into Space" as his personal favourite of the films
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The Man Who Japed The Man Who Japed is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1956. Although one of Dick's lesser-known novels, it features several of the ideas and themes that recur throughout his later works. The "jape[s]" or practical jokes of the novel begin with a statue's unconventional decapitation. "The Man Who Japed" was first published by Ace Books as one half of Ace Double D-193, bound dos-à-dos with "The Space Born" by E. C. Tubb. "The Man Who Japed" is set in the year 2114. After a devastating twentieth century limited
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in order to survive, and claims the abilities of a group of Sun-Eaters, including their homing sense. He observes his wife from a wormhole in space provided by the aliens, only to discover that Ellen is seeing another man (though it is later revealed she only reluctantly went out with one of Buddy's friends). Buddy returns to Earth, describing the marvels of space to his delighted family. Ellen throws a party to celebrate his return, but some followers of Lady Styx appear, bent upon killing the family. They are eliminated by Starfire, who has only partially recovered from wounds suffered
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who have flown without reaching low Earth orbit are spaceplane pilots Joe Walker, Mike Melvill, and Brian Binnie, who participated in suborbital missions. , under the U.S. definition, 558 people qualify as having reached space, above altitude. Of eight X-15 pilots who exceeded in altitude, only one exceeded 100 kilometers (about 62 miles). Space travelers have spent over 41,790 man-days (114.5 man-years) in space, including over 100 astronaut-days of spacewalks. , the man with the longest cumulative time in space is Gennady Padalka, who has spent 879 days in space. Peggy A. Whitson holds the record for the most time
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is a present from Krushchev to Caroline Kennedy, a puppy named Pushok. He finds the other Kennedy pets and tells them his story. Three years earlier, in Moscow 1960, a strange man showed up, who was catching street dogs and taking them away. Once he tried to catch a dog named Strelka, but she ran away with her friend, the rat Venya. Then, Strelka went to go dig for bones and Venya went to a pay telephone to get some money. Meanwhile, while Strelka was running from the strange man, at a local circus there was a bad situation at
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producer George Alexander. In 1992, while making "Boomerang," Hudlin directed the first Black animated film, "Bébé's Kids", which was championed by Paramount's Brandon Tartikoff and was made in memory of comedian Robin Harris, who had died in 1990. In 1994, the Hudlin Brothers produced the HBO anthology multi-ethnic horror series, "Cosmic Slop", of which Hudlin directed the episode "Space Traders." "The Space Traders" was an adaptation of a Derrick Bell short story found in his book, "Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism." He went on to direct "The Great White Hype", "The Ladies Man", "Serving
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who, in "Flashback", destroyed the planet of hostile aliens called the Morphs and went into suspended animation in a spaceship that floats aimlessly through outer space. In the year 2190 (50 years later), he is found by the Morphs and imprisoned in the Lunar prison of New Alcatraz. There, he is rescued by a man who introduces himself as John O'Conner, who tells him that the Morphs beat him to Conrad's ship, and leaves Conrad a few items "of interest" (a PDA and a handgun), before destroying the camera. On the PDA is a message that's from John, who tells
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previously directed as well as starred in the 2000 space-themed picture "Space Cowboys", though he stated that he would likely not appear on camera in "First Man". Universal and DreamWorks ultimately took up the "First Man" project in the mid-2010s. Damien Chazelle, who had received critical acclaim for his work on 2014's "Whiplash", signed onto the film's production that year, and hired Josh Singer to rewrite an existing script. Gosling, who starred in Chazelle's 2016 film "La La Land", joined as well to portray Armstrong in November 2015, and Hansen was hired to co-produce the film because of his role
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in Florida in the near future. China and the United States are sending competing first missions to Mars, although it is clear the Chinese will arrive first. The book's protagonist is Manny Garcia, a teenager who is fascinated by space flight. He, along with his girlfriend Kelly, his best friend Dak, and Dak's girlfriend Alicia, are partying on the beach one night and almost run over a man who has passed out from drinking. The man is Travis Broussard, a former astronaut who was forced to retire in disgrace. Travis lives with his cousin Jubal, who is mentally deficient in
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reception of "The Man Who Knew Coolidge" was mixed. It suffered both unfavorable reviews, including critic Heywood Broun calling it "the dullest writing ever to come from a first-class writing man", and favorable notices, among the latter being a front page appearance on the "New York Times" Book Review section. Schorer himself appeared unimpressed, calling "The Man Who Knew Coolidge" "[a] more trivial project". Lewis' most recent biographer, Richard Lingeman, devotes very little space to "The Man Who Knew Coolidge": in 554 pages there are only two mentions of it. The Man Who Knew Coolidge The Man Who Knew Coolidge
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The Man Who Went Too Far "The Man Who Went Too Far" is a short ghost story by E. F. Benson, collected in his "The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories" (1912). "The Man Who Went Too Far" features allusions to Greek mythology in Pan, the god of nature and rustic music. Its titular character, Frank, is an English gentleman, who connects with nature through a rejection of Christian orthodoxy and embracing of neopaganism. His spiritual journey is defined as a denial of pain and a search for joy: by connecting with nature and rejecting ideas of self-denial and
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Schyffert Chronicle Books "The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon" 2004: Marianne Dyson National Geographic "Home on the Moon: Living in the Space Frontier" 2003: Ron Miller Twenty-First Century Books, a Division of The Millbrook Press Worlds Beyond Series: Extrasolar Planets, The Sun, Jupiter, and Venus 2002: Fred Bortz The Millbrook Press Techno-Matter: The Materials Behind the Marvels 2001: Cynthia Pratt Nicolson Kids Can Press Exploring Space 2000: Jill Frankel Hauser Williamson Publishing Science Play! Gizmos & Gadgets 1999: Elaine Scott Hyperion Books for Children Close Encounters 1998: Barbara Taylor Henry Holt and Company Earth Explained
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jazz artist Julian Priester. He also released two jazz-funk solo albums on Prestige Records in 1972 and 1973. Completing the lineup was bass guitarist Doni Harvey, who performed around the SF/Bay Area with his brothers and in blues, jazz, and soul bands, playing both bass and guitar. According to Harvey's brother, Regi Harvey, Doni joined the band sheerly by chance, During the break we heard a band practising in the big space. We went in to see who it was. It turned out to be "Automatic Man". That night the bass man wasn't working out and stomped out of the
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father opened his eyes and she met his father and lived happily. Like this, Simcheong who comes to the real world as a non-realistic being was born as a daughter of a blind man. And she went to the unrealistic place and came back to the real world again after enjoying happiness. So, the background space of Simchoengjeon changes form "unrealistic space → realistic space → unrealistic space → realistic space". Therefore, The flow of a novel shows a structure of circulation which the real world and the unreal world are exchanged with each other. Now, let’s take a look
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Mayday! Deep Space Mayday! Deep Space is a science fiction video game created by developer "Daniel Wilson" and published by "Iron Cloud Entertainment" on January 7, 2015. In the game, the player must use simple voice commands to instruct a man who is stuck on a spaceship full of monsters. As of May 2016, the game is available on the Apple App Store, and an Android version is in development. The game follows the story of an unnamed man, who is stranded on a space ship after the rest of the ship's crew members were mysteriously killed while the man
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and he put on a spacesuit and went out into space to die. However, he was teleported to Apocalypse's sphinx-like ship, and forced to battle Dr. Foster, a human archeologist who had stumbled upon Apocalypse's tomb, for the "right" to become War, Horseman of Apocalypse. Gazer would have lost the battle if it were not for Ozymandias, Apocalypse's servant. Ozymandias told Gazer that he would owe him and one day the scribe would become the master. Gazer went through a terribly painful process where his skeleton was stretched, the former X-Man Sunfire, who was also chosen by Apocalypse to be
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The Brain of Colonel Barham "The Brain of Colonel Barham" (original title: The Brain of Donald Duncan) is an episode of the original "The Outer Limits" television show. It first aired on 2 January 1965, during the second season. "With the world growing more crowded, the great powers strive to conquer other planets. The race is on. The interplanetary sea has been charted; the first caravelle of space is being constructed. Who will get there first? Who will be the new Columbus?" The space race continues as the American military strives to be the first to successfully land a man
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Man Beast (film) Man Beast is a 1956 American horror film directed and produced by Jerry Warren. It was Warren's first directorial effort and the first production of Associated Producers, Inc. The film is about a young woman who persuades some mountain climbers to trek up to the Himalayas to attempt to find her missing brother, who hasn't been heard from since he went there on an earlier expedition to find the Abominable Snowman. A mysterious guide befriends them, but winds up actually in league with the Yeti who inhabit the mountains, and he secretly works against the explorers behind
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Space Dogs Space Dogs (a.k.a. Belka & Strelka — Star Dogs, original: "Белка и Стрелка. Звёздные собаки", "Belka i Strelka. Zvyozdnye sobaki") is a 2010 Russian computer-animated film. The film is based on the Soviet space dogs and honors the first animals who survived an orbital space trip. In Poland, It became the leader of the box-office on its first weekend, even beating out "". In the United States, it grossed poorly, making $14,408 due to its limited release. A man in black is carrying a small cage from the Soviet Union to the U.S. President Kennedy. In the cage
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that Shepard had been chosen for the first American manned mission into space. Shepard later recalled Louise's response when he told her that she had her arms around the man who would be the first man in space: "Who let a Russian in here?" During training he flew 120 simulated flights. Although his flight was originally scheduled for April 26, 1960, it was postponed several times by unplanned preparatory work, initially to December 5, 1960, then mid-January 1961, March 6, 1961, April 25, 1961, May 2, 1961, and finally to May 5, 1961. On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri
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number 14 in the States in late 1983. Other artists who have subsequently made substantial contributions to the Major Tom story include K.I.A. ("Mrs. Major Tom"). Due to some similarities in Elton John's "Rocket Man", there is a possible connection between the Rocket Man and Major Tom, a connection notably made by Bowie himself, who while singing "Space Oddity" in concert would sometimes call out, "Oh, Rocket Man!" In "Space Oddity", from the album "David Bowie" (1969, later retitled "Space Oddity"), Major Tom's departure from Earth is successful and everything goes according to plan. At a certain point during the
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Battleworld and losing Spider-Man's body, the group encounters Deathlok, who assists them in battle against Dragon Man. After the battle, the Hood follows Kraven as the latter encounters Spider-Man, who has a gaping chest wound but is still alive. After Kraven leaves, the Hood then reveals himself and shoots Spider-Man in the knees. The Hood takes Spider-Man to the camp and forces him to reveal himself as the original Space Phantom. After battling the Space Phantom, the Hood accompanies the group into Limbo to wait for the Space Phantom to appear when he chooses his next target for impersonation. In
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pre and post theater educational program for K – 12 students that exceed Federal and State educational guidelines. Setting yet another precedent, "Quantum Quest" is the first and only film featuring Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon, who lends his voice to Dr. Jack Morrow, a character who serves as one of four distinguished education ambassadors. Other educational ambassadors are NASA's liaison on the film, Charles Kohlhase, who has led the design of deep-space robotic missions to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune and has received NASA's highest award, the Distinguished Service Medal; Anousheh Ansari, the
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League. However it was revealed by Lex Luthor that Niles caused Larry and every one else on the team's respective accidents, forcing them to lose morale and give up. Some time later, Larry was mysteriously beamed to what was known as "The Negative Space" and separated from his negative spirit Keeg Bovo. After being sent back to Earth, Larry was reunited with his fellow former Doom Patrol member Robotman and contacted by Keeg Bovo, who invited Larry to return to the Negative Space for trial. Trainor, Bovo, and Robotman went to the Negative Space and, despite Trainor being sentenced to
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a moon, and day and night. They decided to keep the other Coyote, First Angry, away from their planning, because it was he who had brought unhappiness. First Man, First Woman, and Great-Coyote-Who-Was-Formed-in-the-Water covered the floor of the hogan with a perfect buckskin. On the buckskin the placed a perfect round turquoise, larger than the height of a man. Below the turquoise they placed a great perfect white shell. At that moment the Coyote , First Angry, came and asked them what they were doing. "Nothing," they said. "So I see," he said. And he went away. First Man went
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where he was building his army of Gorilla-Men while operating under the alias of King of the Gorilla-Men. He then finds Robert Maverick who just turned back from his Red Hulk form. While attempting to pull Robert's head out of his body in order to strengthen his Gorilla-Men army, Gorilla-Man is defeated by Squirrel Girl who unleashes her flying squirrels on the Gorilla-Men army. Franz Radzik, a scientist who created an electromagnetic ray machine to transfer his mind into a gorilla’s body was known as Gorilla-Man. He was sent into deep space on an experimental rocket ship and first appeared
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combat simulator and a role-playing game, like the much later and . It is notable for being the first game designed for Origin by Paul Neurath, who went on to found Blue Sky Productions (later renamed Looking Glass Studios). Space Rogue can be considered as the spiritual predecessor to Origin's Wing Commander series. The press release for Space Rogue stated that it is "the first of its kind in science-fiction/3D space flight simulation. An ORIGIN Cinematic Experience™" Implying that Space Rogue was originally meant to be a series of its own ('Ultima in Space'), before later on Origin turned to
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Mamoru was scheduled to go first as a Japanese space by the shuttle accident in 1990, civilian There was Toyohiro Akiyama was first to go into space as a Japanese. He also became a first time as a civilian man went into space. NASDA LE-5 engine will be successful, even in light of technological progress in Japan has decided to develop a purely domestic liquid fuel rocket technology to improve domestic technology. The development was initiated from 1984. H-II rocket is a redesign everything from scratch. Toward the domestic first-stage engine completely, with difficulties in its development. First stage was
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Watch This Space Watch This Space is an Australian children's science fiction television series which ran on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 7 April to 13 June 1982. The show starred Paul Chubb, in his first leading role on a television series, as a red-skinned alien named Rufus who arrives on Earth and attempts to break into show business. The alien is helped by a local man, played by co-star Ron Blanchard, who attempts to help him fit in including helping disguise his spaceship as a normal home and later moved in with him as a roommate. Being largely unaware
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first time, delves into Nono's past, How she learned to idolize "Nonoriri" and the man who found her in the depths of Space. She and the remainder of the Topless prepare for the Space Monster's arrival and the timely intervention of Nono, who now becomes the mega android DieBuster. However, frustrated with Nono's departure, Lal'C batters "DieBuster" in a fit of rage. Just as she is about to land a finishing blow using Douze-Mille's reformed components as a Buster Machine, her Topless powers suddenly expire. "DieBuster" attempts to attack the Space Monster, with no effect. However, the monster vaporizes "DieBuster's"
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and Soviet counterparts. It is therefore not surprising that the first non-Soviet European in space was not an ESA astronaut on a European space craft; it was Czechoslovak Vladimír Remek who in 1978 became the first non-Soviet or American in space (the first man in space being Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union) – on a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft, followed by the Pole Mirosław Hermaszewski and East German Sigmund Jähn in the same year. This Soviet co-operation programme, known as Intercosmos, primarily involved the participation of Eastern bloc countries. In 1982, however, Jean-Loup Chrétien became the first non-Communist Bloc astronaut
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team of unassigned employees: Salman Fard (Anjul Nigam), a short, foreign man with an accent who is hacking into CIA files when Andy meets him; Curtis "Tiny" Russell (Ethan Suplee), a massively obese, anthropophobic man; and Darrell (Jake Busey), a tall, blond, pierced, scary, germophobic, deep-voiced man with personal space issues who regularly refers to himself in the third person. The team finds many non-essential parts but cannot come close to the $99 mark. It is Salman's idea to put all the software on the internet, eliminating the need for a hard drive, RAM, a CD-ROM drive, a floppy drive,
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the dead man and the accused had served in the same infantry company in France. The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940 film) The Man Who Wouldn't Talk is a 1940 mystery film directed by David Burton and starring Lloyd Nolan, Jean Rogers and Richard Clarke. It is a remake of the 1929 film "The Valiant" which had starred Paul Muni, and based on a play of the same name. It was Nolan's first film for Twentieth Century Fox, where he went on to be a successful star of B Movie mysteries such as the Michael Shayne series. Nolan's portrayal of
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The Man Who Went Up in Smoke The Man Who Went Up in Smoke (original title: "Mannen som gick upp i rök") is a mystery novel by Swedish writers Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, published in 1966. It is part of their detective series revolving around Martin Beck and his team. In the novel, Beck returns to work and travels to Hungary to search for a missing journalist called Alf Matsson. After meeting the Budapest police and the criminal underground, he begins to wonder if Matsson ever entered the country. The novel, set in the 1960s, is about a Swedish
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July 3, 1969.) Censored by the Soviet Government, Petr Shelokhonov experienced hard times. In 1970, he was recommended by film director Sergei Gerasimov for portrayal of Sergei Korolev, the legendary rocket scientist who launched the first man in space, but state censors refused him the job. The film title was "Taming of the Fire" ("Ukroshcheniye ognya") () but Shelokhonov was banned from playing the leading role by Soviet censor. The leading role eventually went to his fellow actor Kirill Lavrov and Shelokhonov played a supporting role having such film partners as Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Igor Gorbachyov, Yevgeni Matveev, Zinovi Gerdt, Igor
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Groszinger himself is forced to deny that they sent a man into space. Thanasphere "Thanasphere" is a short story by Kurt Vonnegut, first published on 2 September 1950 in "Collier's Weekly", and later in "Bagombo Snuff Box" in 1999. The story is set at the dawn of space exploration, where a military experiment led by Dr. Groszinger, who supervises the launch of the first human being into space, Major Allen Rice. Rice is launched into orbit around Earth to observe weather conditions over enemy territories, but Rice soon starts receiving messages from dead people, whose spirits inhabit the atmosphere. Thinking
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instead of a Devourer of Worlds. His first act is to restore Archeopia, the first victim of his hunger. While the Ultimates were in Exo-Space upon arriving there in their ship the Abeona, they encountered Blue Marvel's old enemy Anti-Man whose body had reassembled there. Although Blue Marvel wanted to kill Anti-Man, having deemed him too dangerous, he ended up sparing him upon being convinced by his son Kevin who was also in Exo-Space. Instead, Blue Marvel brought him back to the Abeona so that he and the Ultimates can fix him. During the "Civil War II" storyline, Ulysses later
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First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong is the official biography of Neil Armstrong, the astronaut who became the first man to walk on the Moon, on July 20, 1969. The book was written by James R. Hansen, and was first published in 2005, by Simon & Schuster. The book describes Armstrong's involvement in the United States space program (culminating with the historic Apollo 11 mission), and details his personal life and upbringing. The book has received a warm reception from several individuals associated with astronomy and the promotion of spaceflight.
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to go if he does not want to. Although he reflects on his marriage several times (as does the narrator on marriage in general), he does not draw any conclusions yet. The novel was adapted to film in 1980. The film was in Hungarian and Derek Jacobi played the role of Martin Beck. The Man Who Went Up in Smoke The Man Who Went Up in Smoke (original title: "Mannen som gick upp i rök") is a mystery novel by Swedish writers Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, published in 1966. It is part of their detective series revolving around Martin
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and savage (though not necessarily Satanic) entity. In his seminal essay on weird fiction, "Supernatural Horror in Literature", horror writer H. P. Lovecraft spoke positively of "The Man Who Went Too Far" and Benson's work in the genre in general, describing the author as "an important contributor" to the faring of the weird short story. A 2016 Vintage Classics selection of Benson's ghost stories was introduced by writer and actor Mark Gatiss. He mentions "The Man Who Went Too Far" (included in the book) as hinting at Benson's "fascination with an ancient and dangerous pagan sensibility." The Man Who Went
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book "Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon" by Colin Burgess. Viktor Patsayev Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev (; 19 June 193330 June 1971) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 11 mission and was part of the second crew to die during a space flight. On board the space station Salyut 1 he operated the Orion 1 Space Observatory (see Orion 1 and Orion 2 Space Observatories), he became the first man to operate a telescope outside the Earth's atmosphere. After a normal re-entry, the capsule was opened and the crew was found dead. It was discovered
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mansion near Hampstead Heath near London, because of the location's similarity to New York's Central Park; some exterior shots were done in Hampstead itself, while additional filming was done at other British locations. The aircraft seen in "First Man into Space" included stock footage of the takeoff and launch of the Bell X-1A from a Boeing B-29 Superfortress mother ship. A Redstone rocket launch was also featured. Edwards, who played pilot Dan Prescott and the space monster, needed his dialogue synched in post-production because of the actor's difficulty with maintaining an American accent during shooting. The costume that Edwards wore
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940 film) The Man Who Wouldn't Talk is a 1940 mystery film directed by David Burton and starring Lloyd Nolan, Jean Rogers and Richard Clarke. It is a remake of the 1929 film "The Valiant" which had starred Paul Muni, and based on a play of the same name. It was Nolan's first film for Twentieth Century Fox, where he went on to be a successful star of B Movie mysteries such as the Michael Shayne series. Nolan's portrayal of the lead character was deliberately more subdued than Muni's had been and the film was
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available at WonderCon 2008 to the first 25 people who went to the convention each day. Electronic Arts and Starz Media also announced an animated film, "", a prequel to the events of the game, taking place after the Necromorphs invade the USG "Ishimura". The film, developed by Film Roman, was released on October 28, 2008. Electronic Arts released an Ultra Limited Edition of the game limited to only 1,000 copies. The package includes the game, "Dead Space: Downfall", a bonus content DVD, the "Dead Space" art book, a lithograph, and the "Dead Space" comic. People who bought the game
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in Liverpool on Christmas Day in 1950, Kremmen grew up with an interest in becoming an astronaut like his idol, Dan Dare. In the animated version, he bears a striking resemblance to Kenny Everett, who was also born in Liverpool on Christmas Day (but in 1944). Graduating from the Space Academy, Kremmen went on to become the world's most fabulous man, as well as a captain for Star Corps. He also has bionic veins, and a bionic left foot with a detachable big toe that converts into a space cannon. According to a 'computer read-out' at the beginning of the
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Dracula, Terror, Coldblood and Sleepwalker. Michael agreed to stay on the planet so the other heroes could return home. Meanwhile, Kraven manages to find Spider-Man, who is doing well despite massive body damage, and tells Kraven that he needs to slay the others, so that he wins. Kraven realizes this isn't how Spider-Man would talk, and when the Hood shows up, and further damages the questionable hero, takes him to the group. "Spider-Man" reveals a major secret: he is really the Space Phantom. The heroes battle Space Phantom, who uses his powers to become Xemnu. After a fight with the
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indri and humans. In some regions, two brothers were believed to have lived together in the forest until one of them decided to leave and cultivate the land. That brother became the first human, and the brother who stayed in the forest became the first indri. The indri cries in mourning for his brother who went astray. One explanation for the name "babakoto" is that the calls made by the indri resemble a father calling for his lost son. Another legend tells of a man who went hunting in the forest and did not return. His absence worried his son,
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weapons. Father Anselmo introduces the "First Madman," an old man wrapped in a net who imagines he is drowning at sea. The First Madman begins by babbling witty absurdities, but eventually becomes upset and is escorted offstage by a servant. Father Anslemo next introduces the "Second Madman," a husband who went mad with jealousy over his beautiful wife, and the "Third Madman," a lover who went mad following his girlfriend's death. The Second and Third Madmen quarrel absurdly over parrots, flap-dragons, porridge, etc. The Second Madman pretends to shoot the Third Madman. The Third Madman screams in horror because he
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home, having noticed nothing. As the men were marched out and shot, Kellestine, who been drinking very heavily that night, danced a jig while singing "Das Deutschlandlied". Between dancing his jig while singing "Das Deutschlandlied" and executing his prisoners, Kellestine would go over to torment Flanz. Realizing he was doomed, Muscedere stated: "Do me. Do me first. I want to go out like a man." A police wiretap recorded that Mushey told Aravena about Muscedere's execution: "This guy, he went out like a man...He laughed. Went like a man." Kellestine personally executed Muscedere, who had once been his friend. Muscedere
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series, nine of which Carr helped create. She helped produce "UFO sightings in Colorado", 'Using the Sun to Make Music", "Man who Hunts spy satellites", ""Save the last Great Telescope", and "The First Animal To Survive in Space." She was an assistant producer for "Building a Homemade Space Craft," "Blowing up Asteroids with NASA and Neil deGrasse Tyson," "New York's strangest Astronaut," and "Homemade mission to mars by Tom Sachs." "The First Animal to Survive in Space" has over 13 million views. "My Life Online" is a 2013 series developed for Vice's Motherboard intended to shine a light on some
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should marry. So, the man planned to marry each woman on the same day at different times. When the first wedding was in progress, the second woman to marry the man went to see who was getting married on the same day as she. When she saw her future husband marrying another woman, she cursed all in attendance at the wedding and turned them into stone. There is another variation of the first legend to the story. That it was a woman that was in love with a man who already loved another woman. They planned to marry and on
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brings in Doiby as his personal assistant. Doiby becomes involved with Princess Raima of Myrg, an alien who flees to Earth to escape a forced marriage to an evil man named Prince Peril. He gets his friends involved, who help rescue her but not before Doiby serves time as a court jester. As the Golden Age began to fade, Doiby was sent into space to marry Princess Ramia, the aliens enjoying his vast wisdom, and Alan Scott went on with his solo career. Myrg comes to resemble Doiby's beloved Brooklyn. He briefly returns to Earth to assist the Green Lanterns
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act." "Where No Man Has Gone Before" successfully took "Star Trek" to a series order. Barrett had been given the role of voicing the computer on the USS "Enterprise", but was demanding that Roddenberry write her into the main cast. After seeing the initial proposal for "What Are Little Girls Made Of?", Barrett felt that she could play the woman who went into space to find her fiancé. She dyed her hair blonde in an attempt to fit the role. Barrett sought to surprise Roddenberry at his office, but he walked right past her, not recognizing who she was. It
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and Black Cat to help stop Hydra/Hildebrandt's plans. Hulk joins them as well. Written by Pierce Askegren and Danny Fingeroth. Tony Stark has created an "Infinity Engine", a space craft which when launched into space and parked at Stark's recently restored "Ad Astra" space platform will beam down an unlimited supply of energy to the planet. Peter Parker, who was at the Stark party when the Engine was revealed, meets Tony Stark who offered him a job as a lab assistant to Dr. Haberman, who is the scientist who is programming the calibration software. Haberman has all the Infinity Engine
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triples. Turpin led the league in complete games (28) and wins, was second in innings (259), third in ERA and fifth with 124 strikeouts. Julio Bonnetti, who went 14-13 with a 2.56 ERA had the best ERA in the Western League that year. 1937 In 1937 Des Moines went 32-31 to finish second in the first half then went 25-31 in the second half as the league was crumbling. All-Stars were catcher Bus Payton who hit .276, utility man Walt Menke who hit .293 and southpaw pitcher Art McDougall who went 16-11 with a 4.02 ERA. McDougall led the Western
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with four fixed defenders, playing a strict man-to-man marking system, plus a playmaker in the middle of the field who plays the ball together with two midfield wings. Herrera would modify it by adding a fifth defender, the sweeper or libero behind the two centre backs. The sweeper or libero who acted as the free man would deal with any attackers who went through the two centre backs. Inter finished third in the Serie A in his first season, second the next year and first in his third season. Then followed a back-to-back European Cup victory in 1964 and 1965,
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man". Handball is one of the best ways for a potential Australian Rules footballer to acquire the optimum level of hand–eye coordination, ambidexterity, smoothness and flexibility, and sense of where one is in time and space (e.g., Bill Serong who played in three Grand Finals for Collingwood, went to the Christian Brothers' College in Victoria Parade, and was the Australian handball champion in 1974, aged 38). Terry became the school's handball champion, and won the College's handball championship's gold medal in 1921. On Saturday, 19 November 1921, playing for St.Virgil's College against Hutchins School, Terry lost his only singles match,
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man. She thought it was just her faulty eyesight but she turned out to meet the man again when she came face-to-face with SB one afternoon. Komon himself trained to be a formidable NR agent under Shiori Hiraki's help until finally he went on a mission. Before NR succeeded in destroying the giant SB, came the giant who first confronted him. The giant is the giant who helped Komon yesterday, so Komon thinks the giant is on their side. But NR argues otherwise, they shoot the giant who later named Ultraman it. SB has not been defeated while Ultraman was
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Georgy Dobrovolsky Georgiy Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky (; June 1, 1928June 30, 1971) was a Soviet cosmonaut who served on the three-man crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft. They became the world's first space station crew aboard Salyut 1, but died in space due to asphyxiation due to an accidentally opened valve. They were the first and, as of 2018, the only humans to have died in space. Dobrovolsky, Viktor Patsayev and Vladislav Volkov flew on the Soyuz 11 mission and were the world's second crew to die during a space flight (after Vladimir Komarov in Soyuz 1). After a normal re-entry,
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act as a hired mercenary or commit acts of corporate espionage to cripple his competitors for industrialist gain. In his original appearance, the Iron Man of 2020 was employed by Sunset Bain (as an old woman) to destroy Machine Man who had been accidentally discovered and subsequently reactivated by the Midnight Wreckers, rebellious youths who scavenged discarded technology. Despite ostensibly superior power, Iron Man was defeated by the furious Machine Man who went on to claim "I'm a better man than you." In another story, Arno's factory is infiltrated by Robert Saunders, a heavily scarred man who starts a countdown
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of "F1 Challenge '99-'02", isiMotor was licensed to another company for the first time, SimBin, who went on to produce popular retail sim racing titles based on Image Space Incorporated’s engine, including "GTR" and "GTR 2". Image Space Incorporated then decided to make a racing simulator with an open architecture and provided tools for the modding community to create third party content. This title became "rFactor" which was the first ISI release using the software engine referred to as isiMotor2. "rFactor" went on to become the preferred racing simulation platform for nearly a decade, with a plethora of community created
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Einstein's birth. At the dedication ceremony, physicist John Archibald Wheeler described the statue as "a monument to the man who united space and time into space-time...a remembrance of the man who taught us...that the universe does not go on from everlasting to everlasting, but begins with a bang." The memorial is a popular spot for tourists visiting the national mall to pose for pictures. The statue depicts Einstein seated in casual repose on a three-step bench of Mount Airy (North Carolina) white granite. The bronze figure weighs approximately 4 tons and is 12 feet in height. The monument is supported
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liked it, so they went home to get their wives, returned shortly before the Flood, and were drowned. According to another medieval Irish legend, Cessair is also the name of a daughter of the king of Gallia who married the High King of Ireland, Úgaine Mór, in the 6th or 5th century BC. Mallory has a slightly different version. There were 150 women and 3 men. The first man died and was buried in Wexford. The second man now had 100 women and soon died of exhaustion. The 150 women then chased the remaining man who saved himself by jumping
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time and space and guides Ultraman. However her true form is unclear. In the 2007 drama ""Gluttonous Detectives 2"", in an episode entitled , the circumstances of a man who was taken from his Japanese mother and went abroad overlap with the song. It was also filmed in Yamashita Park. At the Yokohama Carnival that takes place in summer a big dance event known as the Hamakoi Odori (a dance originating from Yosakoi) is held. One of the rules of the dance is that the nursery rhyme ""Akai Kutsu"" must be included among the tunes. Akai Kutsu There is evidence
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Seven. In addition to being the first American astronauts, they set several firsts in American spaceflight, both auspicious and tragic. Alan Shepard was the first American in space and later became one of the twelve people to walk on the Moon. John Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth and after his induction went on, in 1998, to become the oldest man to fly in space, aged 77. Gus Grissom was the first American to fly in space twice and was the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 1, which resulted in the first astronaut deaths directly related to
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was Ronald V. Schmidt (BS 1966, MS 1968, PhD 1971), who became known as "the man who brought Ethernet to the masses". Another Xerox PARC researcher, Charles Simonyi (BS 1972), pioneered the first WYSIWIG word processor program and was recruited personally by Bill Gates to join the fledgling company known as Microsoft to create Microsoft Word. Simonyi later became the first repeat space tourist, blasting off on Russian Soyuz rockets to work at the International Space Station orbiting the earth. In 1977, a graduate student in the computer science department named Bill Joy (MS 1982) assembled the original Berkeley Software
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the ship, the algae it creates, and resorting to cannibalism. Meanwhile, Payton finds a young man named Corporal Gallo, who claims that the ship is lost in space. He claimed that he killed his team in self-defense because they developed Pandorum after finding out that Earth mysteriously vanished. Leland gives food to Bower's group and shows them mural drawings depicting their true origin. According to the drawings, after Earth vanished following an unknown catastrophe, Gallo went insane. After killing his team, he begins to "play God" by awakening passengers and abusing them until they developed Pandorum. Taking advantage of their
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bombing missions in Cambodia during the Vietnam War whose dream is to be the first black man in space, and Phil Stone, a veteran Air Force test pilot-turned-astronaut who has flown in a long-term stay on a lunar orbital station before the Mars mission. In the 1970s, the Skylab Space Station is launched, but apparently as a wet workshop design that is based on the Saturn IB S-IVB upper stage called "Skylab A". The Saturn V that might have launched Skylab in our timeline instead launches "Skylab B", a lunar orbit space station unofficially named "Moonlab", also a wet workshop
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also a Crown International Picture. In the year 3008, the crew of the Intergalactic Space Police cruiser "Infinity" is on patrol duty in deep space. The ship is captained by the incompetent Cornelius Butt (Avery Schreiber) and his crewmen: his first officer, Sgt. Thor (Stephen Macht); pilot "space-cowboy" Pvt. Robert "Buzz" McHenry (J.D. Hinton); Maurice (Lionel Mark Smith), a black humanoid alien with pointy ears and bat wings; and Sam (Tad Horino), an Asian man who quotes Confucius. Also aboard is Galaxina (Dorothy Stratten), a voluptuous blonde android servant, and Rock-Eater, a rock-eating alien prisoner confined to the brig. While
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the communication between the engineers and managers and the general public who were interested. The website went online in the summer of 2005, just before the first "Return to Flight" Space Shuttle mission (STS-114) following the Space Shuttle "Columbia" disaster. It soon expanded its coverage from NASA to all manned and unmanned spaceflight, by commercial providers as well as international space agencies. L2 is a subscription database of documentation, graphics, data, information and video that, , is over 5.5 terabytes large. Unique information such as internal NASA memos, Flight Readiness Review documents, and ISS status reports are added daily. NASASpaceFlight.com
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They represent the Apollo 1 crew Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee. Space Shuttle Challenger STS-51L crew Dick Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Gregory Jarvis, Judith Resnik and Christa McAuliffe. Space Shuttle "Columbia" STS-107 crew Rick Husband, William C. McCool, David M. Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Michael P. Anderson, Laurel Clark and Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut. Around the eagles neck are 4 small red stars and one larger red star. The large star is for Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space during Vostok 1, who was killed during training for Soyuz 3. The other
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with brown eyes and dark blond hair, Doc went to Mexico in about 1870. While there, he and another man had an argument over a card game and drew their pistols. The other man shot first and the bullet went through Doc's mouth, knocking out his front teeth and coming out the back of his neck without any more serious damage. He quickly returned fire and killed the man who shot him. Scurlock returned to the United States in 1871 and went to work as a line rider for John Chisum. He and other riders were also used to defend
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Pin-Up Went Down Pin-Up Went Down is a French experimental band. Although their music is mostly referred to as avant-garde metal, they describe themselves as "an experimental band blending art rock, metal, avant-garde, and pop. Pin-Up Went Down was formed as a one-man project by Alexis Damien in Rouen in 2006, who then added more members. Pin-Up Went Down was formed in 2006, initially as a one-man project by former Carnival in Coal and Wormfood member Alexis Damien and bearing the name Esthete Piggie. Damien was later joined by singer, writer and photographer Aurélie "Asphodel" Raidron, who had also sung
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clamped together. After the event, the Leopard Man went over to smell Wallace's head and sneezed. De Ville had placed snuff in his hair; Augustus had sneezed. The Leopard Man's Story "The Leopard Man's Story" is a short mystery story by Jack London. It was first published in the August 1903 issue of "Leslie's Weekly" and, in 1906, included in "Moon-Face and Other Stories". The "Leopard Man", a saddened leopard trainer who bore visible scars on his arms and whose personality diametrically opposed his daring profession, tells a tale of a "lion-tamer who was hated by another man" to the
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of concerts. He retired in 2005 and was replaced by Mendello, though he remained on the board of directors. Schultz died in 2006 of cancer. Bill Schultz (Fender) William Charles Schultz (July 30, 1926 – September 21, 2006) was the CEO of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, and is credited as the "man who saved Fender." Born at McKeesport, Pennsylvania, Schultz graduated as an engineer from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1965 and went to work for Bethlehem Steel, Baltimore. While working at Bendix Aerospace on radar tracking devices for the Apollo Space project, he got a Master's in
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Bill Schultz (Fender) William Charles Schultz (July 30, 1926 – September 21, 2006) was the CEO of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, and is credited as the "man who saved Fender." Born at McKeesport, Pennsylvania, Schultz graduated as an engineer from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1965 and went to work for Bethlehem Steel, Baltimore. While working at Bendix Aerospace on radar tracking devices for the Apollo Space project, he got a Master's in aerospace engineering. In 1971 he received an MBA from Rutgers University and got a job at CBS. Schultz worked for Yamaha Corporation when he was
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NASA Astronaut Corps The NASA Astronaut Corps is a unit of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that selects, trains, and provides astronauts as crew members for U.S. and international space missions. It is based at Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The first U.S. astronaut candidates were selected by NASA in 1959, for its Project Mercury with the objective of orbiting astronauts around the Earth in single-man capsules. The military services were asked to provide a list of military test pilots who met specific qualifications. After stringent screening, NASA announced its selection of the
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Escape Velocity (novel) Escape Velocity is a BBC Books original novel written by Colin Brake and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It features the Eighth Doctor and Fitz and introduces the new companion of Anji Kapoor. This book completes the story arc in which the Doctor was trapped on Earth for a hundred years. In 2001, there is a new space race, between Pierre Yves-Dudoin and Arthur Tyler III, both competing to be the first privately funded man in space. Eventually Pierre announces that he has succeeded, and will be in space in a
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the sacred and the profane is Eliade's trademark theory. According to Eliade, traditional man distinguishes two levels of existence: (1) the Sacred, and (2) the profane world. (Here "the Sacred" can be God, gods, mythical ancestors, or any other beings who established the world's structure.) To traditional man, things "acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their participation in a transcendent reality". Something in our world is only "real" to the extent that it conforms to the Sacred or the patterns established by the Sacred. Hence, there is profane space, and there is sacred space. Sacred space
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Invaders from Space Invaders from Space is a 1964 film edited together for American television from films #3 and #4 of the 1957 Japanese short film series "Super Giant". The story involves the superhero Starman who is sent by the Emerald Planet to protect Earth from the Salamander Men of the planet Kulimon in the Moffit galaxy who plan to destroy Earth. The 9 "Super Giant" films were purchased for distribution to U.S. television and edited into 4 films by Walter Manley Enterprises and Medallion Films. The 2 original Japanese films which went into "Invaders from Space" ("The Mysterious Spacemen's
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"story of a young girl who dates with an older man, and who realizes that this man is married and that he has children". The music video was produced by Núfilms, directed by Ivan Grbovic and shot in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in November 2007. The video illustrates the song's lyrics. It began to be aired in the middle of December 2007. As the previous single "Quelque part", "Il avait les mots" went straight to number one on the French Singles Chart, on 26 January 2008, with 15,800 sales in the first week. It was the first time in France that
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a number of new members who have ascended to the Chaos Pantheon: In the table-top wargame "Warhammer 40,000", the Chaos Space Marines or Chaos Marines, are Space Marines who serve the Chaos Gods. They are also referred to as the "Traitor Legions", primarily in background material written from the perspective of the Imperium. The background shown in both "Codex: Space Marines" (Haines and McNeill, 2004) and "Codex: Chaos Space Marines" (Chambers et al., 2002) states that the Chaos Marine Legions were nine of the twenty Legions of Space Marines who fought in the Great Crusade for the Imperium of Man.
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Over Bananas) 1. Spin About / Jump N' Shout<Br> 2. The Thing 3. Goriddle Rock<Br> 4. Sticks And Stones<Br> 5. (1) No Gnews Is Good Gnews 6. My Way (Comme D'Habitude)<Br> (Lyrics By (English) – Paul Anka Lyrics By (French) – Gilles Thibault Music By – C. Francois, J. Revaux) The Great Space Coaster The Great Space Coaster is a children's television show that was broadcast in first-run syndication from 1981 to 1986. The series was co-created by Kermit Love (original Muppet designer and builder for Jim Henson) and Jim Martin (who later went on to work on a number
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"The cyclical evolution from ape to man to spaceman to angel-starchild-superman is complete". The monolith appears four times in "2001: A Space Odyssey": on the African savanna, on the moon, in space orbiting Jupiter, and near Bowman's bed before his transformation. After the first encounter with the monolith, we see the leader of the apes have a quick flashback to the monolith after which he picks up a bone and uses it to smash other bones. Its usage as a weapon enables his tribe to defeat the other tribe of apes occupying the water hole who have not learned how
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Him decides to leave Earth and travels into space. He encounters the High Evolutionary, who gives him the name "Warlock". The High Evolutionary requests Warlock's help in saving the artificially created planet Counter-Earth from the evil Man Beast and gives Warlock the green Soul Gem (also referred to as the "Soul Jewel"), which allows Warlock to capture souls of other beings. When he arrives on Counter-Earth, Warlock is given the name Adam by four teenagers who befriend him. After the Man Beast's defeat, Warlock leaves Counter-Earth to find a new purpose. In his travels through space, Warlock encounters the Universal
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Terra-Man Terra-Man (real name Toby Manning) is a fictional character and supervillain who appears in Superman stories published by DC Comics. Terra-Man first appeared in "Superman" (volume 1) #249 and was created by Cary Bates, Curt Swan, and Dick Dillin. The Pre-1985 Terra-Man was noted for using futuristic weapons modeled after those used in the Old West as well as riding an Arguvian Space Steed (a type of winged horse) named Nova. As revealed in "Superman" #249, Tobias "Toby" Manning was born during the Old West era. An alien known as the Currency-Criminal accidentally killed Toby's father Jess and took
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on the practical uses of space in increasing the standard of living. Remote sensing and communications satellites were placed into orbit. The first Indian to travel in space was Rakesh Sharma, who flew aboard Soyuz T-11, launched April 2, 1984, from erstwhile USSR. Just a few days after China said that it would send a human into orbit in the second half of 2003, Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee publicly urged his country's scientists to work towards sending a man to the Moon. It successfully sent its probe to the Moon in October 2008 and is planning its second
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Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr. (born February 28, 1924) is an American aerospace engineer and retired NASA engineer and manager who was instrumental in establishing the agency's Mission Control operation. Following his graduation from Virginia Tech in 1944, Kraft was hired by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the predecessor organization to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He worked for over a decade in aeronautical research before being asked in 1958 to join the Space Task Group, a small team entrusted with the responsibility of putting America's first man in space. Assigned to the
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the script. To prepare for his role, Wong went on a diet and started practising Wing Chun on a wooden dummy given to him by producer Checkley Sin. Ip Man's elder son, Ip Chun, who played Leung Bik in Herman Yau's previous Ip Man film, "The Legend Is Born – Ip Man" (2010), makes a cameo appearance in "Ip Man: The Final Fight" as the shop owner who lets Ip Man use the phone in his shop. The story of "Ip Man: The Final Fight" was written by Checkley Sin (one of the film's producers), who is a student of
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work week. However, when the purser approached the first of these men for his fare, the man obstinately refused to pay, even after the purser offered to cash his company paycheck. Fearing that if he let one get away without paying that none would pay, the purser went up to the pilot house and spoke to Captain Bucey. Bucey landed the "BC Express" again and went down to speak to the man himself. When the man unwisely repeated that he wasn't paying, Bucey called over two deckhands who, without ceremony, threw the man overboard into the river. Bucey calmly returned
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the man who was the first in space. His achievement made him and instant celebrity and international hero. The story of Yuri Gagarin made his hero status even more deserving. He was from a common background and was not a rich man. His wife recalled a story about a time they were thrown out of a house in Germany and had to live in a dugout of a garden for three years. Gagarin had a thirst for knowledge which inspired people to study hard. Also Gagarin was known to have a warm and charming personality with a wonderful sense of
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He first picked up a guitar by watching a man in the country play a song that captivated him. He watched the man play the same song for half a day, memorizing everything his fingers were doing. He then picked up the guitar and played the song back to the man. The man then asked McIntosh who had taught him to play; McIntosh told him that he had. During the early 1960s Tosh met Robert Nesta Marley (Bob Marley) and Neville O'Reilly Livingston (Bunny Wailer) and went to vocal teacher Joe Higgs, who gave out free vocal lessons to young
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by the man who killed his parents, and that is what brings him to Kree space — to hunt down that man. Wraith defeated the leader of the Nameless and he stole their polymorphic weapon and a ship that transported to journeyed back into the galaxy to hunt down the man. Although his time with the Nameless made him rather cold and shows brutal efficiency as a fighter, Wraith retains some pragmatic yet moral standards. Wraith is first seen when he incapacitated an entire Phalanx battle-cruiser, drawing the attention of both the Phalanx and the Resistance forces led by Ra-Venn
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Germ Z Germ Z, also billed as Germ, is a 2013 American horror film. It depicts the residents of a small town who become infected with a bacterium that has fallen to Earth from space. It was produced by Two Thirds Productions. The film opens with a man in a medical containment suit running through the forest. He is chased by another man who is covered in blood and screaming. The man in the hazard suit falls and hides behind a log, watching as the bloodied man clutches his head before the back of his skull explodes. The movie then
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when a man who was going on a journey called in his servants and entrusted his possessions to them. 15To one he gave five talents; to another, two; to a third, one—to each according to his ability. Then he went away. Immediately 16 the one who received five talents went and traded with them, and made another five. 17 Likewise, the one who received two made another two. 18 But the man who received one went off and dug a hole in the ground and buried his master’s money. 19 After a long time the master of those servants came
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In the summer of 2010, the Space and Rocket Center began hosting traveling exhibits. The first was with other exhibits planned. The United States Space Camp hosted at the facility has provided themed camps in conjunction with the exhibits, including a Jedi Experience camp. Other traveling exhibits include: The idea for the museum was first proposed by Dr. Wernher von Braun, who led the efforts of the United States to land the first man on the moon. Plans for the museum were underway in 1960 with an economic feasibility study for the Huntsville-Madison County Chamber of Commerce. Von Braun, understanding
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atomic fear, and the directorial efforts of Billy Wilder’s brother, would have been enough to bump the film into the upper echelon of early sci-fi essentials". In 2006, skeptic Dr. Aaron Sakulich noted similarities between the film and many alien abduction stories that would first appear over a decade later, such as the medical testing done by the aliens, the protagonist's strange scar, his memory erasure, the aliens' giant eyes, and their way of mind control. Killers from Space Killers from Space (a.k.a. The Man Who Saved the Earth) is a 1954 independently made American black-and-white science fiction film, produced
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