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Ospreys have a vision that is well adapted to detecting underwater objects from the air. Prey is first sighted when the osprey is 10–40 m (33–131 ft) above the water, after which the bird hovers momentarily and then plunges feet first into the water. [ 44 ]
Floyd was played by William Sylvester in the film version of 2001: A Space Odyssey and by Roy Scheider in 2010: The Year We Make Contact. [5] Dr. Frank Poole is an astronaut aboard Discovery One on the first crewed mission to Jupiter in 2001: A Space Odyssey (Saturn in the novel).
Space Cadet by Robert A. Heinlein; The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth; The Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke; Space Opera by Jack Vance; Space Trilogy series by C. S. Lewis. namely, Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra (a.k.a. Voyage to Venus) and That Hideous Strength; The Space Vampires by Colin Wilson; Space Viking by H ...
Children of Time is a 2015 science fiction novel by author Adrian Tchaikovsky.The novel follows the evolution of a civilization of genetically modified Portia labiata (arachnoid) on a terraformed exoplanet, guided by an artificial intelligence based on the personality of one of the human terraformers of the planet.
Space is a novel by James A. Michener published in 1982. It is a fictionalized history of the United States space program , with a particular emphasis on human spaceflight . [ 1 ]
In 2022, a Marine aviation spokesman said the service’s Ospreys had a lower mishap rate per 100,000 flight hours than three of its jet fighters – the Harrier, the F/A18 Super Hornet and the F ...
2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. It was developed concurrently with Stanley Kubrick's film version and published after the release of the film. Clarke and Kubrick worked on the book together, but eventually only Clarke ended up as the official author.
When Evan Strickland was 13, he stood in line with his dad for 30 minutes for the chance to sit in the cockpit of a V-22 Osprey. Six years later he died in one.