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...launching pad at the space center in Tyuratum, in the Central Asian Soviet republic of Kazakhstan. Atop the rocket was a manned Soyuz space capsule bound for a rendezvous with the orbiting space station Salyut 7. Luckily, the safeguards apparently worked without a hitch, and the two or three spacemen aboard survived the disaster...
Steven Spielberg did grow up. He became rich and famous as the director who enjoyed playing with sharks, spacemen and snakes-and turning these fearsome critters into the stuff of blockbusters. Jaws, which Spielberg and Producer Richard Zanuck had feared might prove to be "a shark with turkey feathers," terrified moviegoers to the tune of $410 million. Close Encounters of the Third Kind built a sense of biblical awe around man's first meeting with beings from outer space and put another $250 million into the till. Last year Raiders of the Lost Ark sent Saturday-matinee chills down...
...like wire snare should be able to capture any satellite equipped with appropriately mated hooks. On this voyage, Truly will only guide the 50-ft.-long arm through various manipulations of its "shoulder," "elbow" and "wrist" joints. If the machinery jams when the arm is extended, one of the spacemen will have to climb into a pressure suit and go outside to reel the limb in. If that fails, the arm will have to be jettisoned in space. For unless the shuttle's big, heat-shielded cargo doors are shut tight, Columbia will not survive the scorching descent through...
...style reflects the content and organization of a book eveidently intended to support a position, not weigh a question. Reading it is something like reading Erik von Daniken on the visits of spacemen to Earth during the Stone Age--enjoyable and enlightening if you already believe, irritating if you don't, amusing and not particularly illuminating to the neutral reader. It is impossible to deny the sense in much of what Strenio says; it is equally impossible, though, to miss the shallowness, oversimplification and inconsistency that often flaws his logic...
...with bacteria. Most laymen remained unaware of the discovery, but one notable exception was Dan Barry, artist of the Flash Gordon comic strip. That became evident when the first clinical use of interferon took place not in a hospital but in a 1960 Flash Gordon adventure. In that episode, spacemen infected with an extraterrestrial virus aboard a rocket ship far from home are pulled back from death's door by last-minute injections of interferon...