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Life in Space explores the many aspects and outcomes of NASAs research in life sciences, a little-understood endeavor that has often been overlooked in histories of the space agency. Maura Mackowski details NASAs work in this field from spectacular promises made during the Reagan era to the major new directions set by George W. Bush's Vision for Space Exploration.

Fight for the Final Frontier uses the concepts associated with irregular warfare to offer new insights for understanding the nature of strategic competition in space. Today's most pressing security concerns are best considered using an irregular warfare lens because incidents and points of potential conflict fall outside the definition of armed conflict. While some universal rules of combat apply across all domains, conflict in space up-ends those assumed standards of understanding.

Is the … classical and quantum gravity accepted manuscript “Introducing physical warp drives” authored by Alexey Bobrick and Gianni Martire, published 2021 by the Institute of Physics - with earliest seen related online publication in 2019 … Original? Despite its critical acclaim: There are little-known truths; that the reader may not yet know … The characteristics and outcomes that are optimal for the warp drive - such as shape, flight-profile, speed, and other properties disclosed from 2019 onward by the acclaimed authors ... was actually formulated beat-for-beat, and point-by-...

Throughout history, when threatened by wildfires our only defense was to pray for rain and run—until aircraft changed the way we fight fires. Beginning with the Canadian "H-Boats" in 1924, aircraft have become indispensable in detecting and extinguishing wildfires. Fire Eaters tells the incredible stories of the Ontario Provincial Air Service, the first government aerial fire suppression organization in history; one of its pilots, Carl Crossley, who invented the water scoop-up and drop-off system; and the Canadair CL-215, the first purpose-built water bomber.