The main recurring theme in his works is a comparison of the readers ' gloomy, hopeless situations to what may happen in a space environment if we carry totalitarian ideas and habits into space worlds: Red Space Republics or Space Labour Camps, or both.

* Space is a damaging environment for life, as it would be exposed to radiation, cosmic rays and stellar winds.

The character Elim Garak once noted that Deep Space Nine's environment was very cold and very bright by Cardassian standards.

Film historian Linda Badley explains that the film was so horrifying because the monsters were not creatures from Outer Space or some exotic environment, " They're us ".

Space is such an alien environment that attempting to work in it requires new techniques and knowledge.

* Microgravity Science Glovebox ( MSG )-ISS Facility ( ISS Facility ) provides a safe contained environment for research with liquids, combustion and hazardous materials aboard the International Space Station

Space is a fairly predictable environment, but there are still risks of accidental depressurisation and the potential failure of equipment, some of which may be very newly developed.

The SEM measures in situ the effect of the sun on the near-earth solar-terrestrial electromagnetic environment, providing real-time data to the Space Environment Services Center ( SESC ).

Scientist / Astronaut researchers aboard the International Space Station are engaged in hundreds of advanced experiments, most of which could not be conducted except for the zero-gravity environment.

Space weather models are computer simulations of the space weather environment.

Space weather models differ from meteorological model in that amount of input is vastly smaller and no single space weather model yet can reliably predict the environment from the surface of the Sun to the bottom of the Earth's ionosphere.

The township's Open Space Program succeeded in acquiring large tracts of environmentally sensitive land which helped to slow the pace of development, preserve the environment and protect housing values.

Similarly, a 1972 ground-breaking study by Oscar Newman on a Defensible Space Theory described ways to improve the social environment and security of neighbourhoods and streets.

* Plan 9 from User Space ( aka plan9port ) is a port of many Plan 9 programs from their native Plan 9 environment to Unix-like operating systems, including Mac OS X.

Time and Relative Dimensions in Space ( 2001 ) takes a more modern myth as its subject-it is a life-sized mirrored model of the TARDIS from Doctor Who which at certain angles seems to blend into its environment.

* STS-107 ( January 16 to February 1, 2003 ) aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia was a 16 day mission during which the crew performed over 80 experiments testing applications of microgravity to gain insight into the environment of space and improve life on Earth as well as enable future space exploration.

In addition, in its payload bay, Columbia again carried the DFI package, and OSS-l ( named for the NASA Office of Space Science and Applications ) which consisted of a number of instruments mounted on a Spacelab pallet, intended to obtain data on the near-Earth environment and the extent of contamination caused by the orbiter itself.

Through the action of free fall ( e. g., Space Shuttle orbiting Earth ), the local effects of gravity are greatly reduced, thus creating a microgravity environment.

In Unique Forms of Continuity in Space ( 1913 ) he attempted to realise the relationship between the object and its environment, which was central to his theory of " dynamism ".

Laptops used aboard the space shuttle and International Space Station feature safety and operational improvements for the weightless environment they must operate in.

Other sources of knowledge on the actual space debris environment include measurement campaigns by the ESA Space Debris Telescope, TIRA ( System ), Goldstone radar, Haystack radar, the EISCAT radars, and the Cobra Dane phased array radar.

The solar arrays of the Hubble Space Telescope returned during missions STS-61 Endeavour and STS-109 Columbia are an important source of information on the debris environment.

The PBS Space Power Facility ( SPF ) houses the world's largest space environment vacuum chamber.

Popular examples include The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, as well as the Girl Genius series by Phil and Kaja Foglio, although seeds of the genre may be seen in certain works of Michael Moorcock, Philip Jose Farmer and Steve Stiles, and in such games as Space 1889 and Marcus Rowland's Forgotten Futures.

Beyond Time and Space was considered similar to Save the World and reviewers equally praised and faulted the game on this, although overall Beyond Time and Space received a good reception from critics.

The game was planned as a departure from the main Space Quest series, rumors it starred a new character named " Wilger ", although Roger Wilco was playable ( as seen in a production video ).

The next American space station project was Space Station Freedom, which was never completed, although it eventually led to the construction of the US Orbital Segment of the International Space Station, starting in 1998.

This spaceplane was designed for a crew and strongly resembled the U. S. Space Shuttle, although its drop-off boosters used liquid propellants and its main engines were located at the base of what would be the external tank in the American Shuttle.

The winged Space Shuttle orbiter was launched vertically, usually carrying four to seven astronauts ( although eight have been carried ) and up to 50, 000 lb ( 22, 700 kg ) of payload into low Earth orbit ( LEO ).

The band stopped touring North America after their Hot Space Tour, as their success there had waned, although they would perform on American television for the only time during the eighth season premiere of Saturday Night Live.

Space Cowboys was critically well received and holds a 79 percent rating at Rotten Tomatoes, although Roger Ebert wrote that the film was, " too secure within its traditional story structure to make much seem at risk.

Although never seen, dialogue in Deep Space Nine indicates the existence of portable transporters, though the Next Generation episode " Timescape " features emergency transporter armbands ( although these may have served only to activate a remote transporter ).

The first mention of the United Federation of Planets was in the 1967 episode " A Taste of Armageddon ," although other vague references such as just " The Federation " or to the " United Earth Space Probe Agency " were used in prior episodes.

A 1985 presentation to the National Space Society stated that although flying tourists in the cabin would cost $ 1 to 1. 5 million per passenger without government subsidy, within 15 years 30, 000 people a year would pay $ 25, 000 each to fly in space on new spacecraft.

This spaceplane was designed for a crew and strongly resembled the U. S. Space Shuttle, although its drop-off boosters used liquid propellants and its main engines were located at the base of what would be the external tank in the American Shuttle.

Films produced by current Disney subsidiary The Jim Henson Company have also aired on Disney Channel in the past, although most of them are not presently owned by Disney, including The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Buddy, The Muppet Movie, The Muppets Take Manhattan, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island, Muppets From Space, The Muppets ' Wizard of Oz and The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland.

* The 1956 British film Fire Maidens from Outer Space was set on Jupiter's 13th moon, although this film was made before the discovery of Leda in 1974.

At the start of the Dominion War, Bajor officially declared their neutrality (" Call to Arms "), although many Bajorans joined Starfleet and, as well, a new resistance to the occupation of Deep Space Nine is formed.

In the opening scene of 2001: A Space Odyssey a group of primitive hominids, prior to their discovery of tools, live in fear of a large predatory cat ( portrayed by an actual jaguar ) which likely would have been a Dinofelis, although in Arthur C. Clarke's novel, the cat is referred to throughout as a " leopard ".

Alexakis was interviewed on Space Ghost Coast to Coast but the interview never aired, although the interview is quickly glimpsed on Episode 60, " Lawsuit ".

Other influences include psychedelic rock pioneers Pink Floyd ; film composer Ennio Morricone ; krautrockers Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk ; early pioneers of the eurodance electronica subgenre Space ; Jean-Jacques Perrey and Claude Perraudin ( although there are some echoes of dance music styles in the production ); French crooner Serge Gainsbourg ( Histoire de Melody Nelson, for example ); and soft rock duo The Carpenters ( Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft, for example ).

A search of this star by the Hubble Space Telescope revealed no stellar companions, although this does not preclude the presence of smaller companions that are below the telescope's detection limit, such as a planet orbiting within one astronomical unit of the star.

Most references to the organization appear in episodes of Deep Space Nine, although Section 31 also appears in Star Trek: Enterprise.

This track does not appear on the soundtrack album, although three other tracks are similar to it: " Fornication in Space " ( track 3 ), " Heartbreak " ( track 8 ) and " Sweet Farewell " ( track 9 ), played respectively on synth, guitar and piano.

This generally limited it to " Win32s applications " which were specifically designed for the Win32s platform, although some standard Win32 programs would work correctly, including Microsoft's 3D Pinball Space Cadet, Windows 95's included applets, and Office 95.