Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
He did feel, however, that von Braun's need to show that a mission to Mars is possible fills the book with "sometimes tedious" technical detail which "labor[s] the essence of the story line". [1] Spitzmiller also felt that White's translation of von Braun's "Teutonic vocabulary" uses arcane words that may necessitate a dictionary while reading.
The Mars Project (German: Das Marsprojekt) is a 1952 non-fiction scientific book by the German (later German-American) rocket physicist, astronautics engineer and space architect Wernher von Braun. It was translated from the original German by Henry J. White and first published in English by the University of Illinois Press in 1953.
The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must is a nonfiction science book by Robert Zubrin, first published in 1996, and revised and updated in 2011. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The book details Zubrin's Mars Direct plan to make the first human landing on Mars .
The question of how humans would get to Mars was addressed in several ways: when not travelling there via spaceship as in the 1911 novel To Mars via the Moon: An Astronomical Story by Mark Wicks, [24] they might use a flying carpet as in the 1905 novel Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation by Edwin Lester Arnold, [14] [18] [20] a balloon as in A Narrative of the Travels and Adventures of Paul ...
Shop staff were robbed at knifepoint during a "terrifying incident" that resulted in £80 being stolen, police have said. A man in his 20s has been arrested on suspicion of robbery in connection ...
Schematic diagram of the orbits of the fictional planets Vulcan, Counter-Earth, and Phaëton in relation to the five innermost planets of the Solar System.. Fictional planets of the Solar System have been depicted since the 1700s—often but not always corresponding to hypothetical planets that have at one point or another been seriously proposed by real-world astronomers, though commonly ...
Spicy food does not cause stomach ulcers, the experts note. "However, if someone already has an ulcer and their stomach is trying to heal, spicy foods may worsen symptoms," says de Latour.
The Rape of Persephone by Simone Pignoni (c. 1650) Act I begins with Ceres leaving her daughter Proserpine in the protection of two nymphs, Ino and Eunoe, warning them not to wander. Proserpine asks Ino to tell her a story, and she recites the tale of Arethusa. After the story, the group gathers flowers.