A more complete list would also include Bradbury's `` The Pedestrian '' ( 1951 ), Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery ( 1955 ), David Karp's One ( 1953 ), Wilson Tucker's The Long Loud Silence ( 1952 ), Jack Vance's To Live Forever ( 1956 ), Gore Vidal's Messiah ( 1954 ), and Bernard Wolfe's Limbo ( 1952 ), as well as the three perhaps most outstanding dystopias, Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants ( 1953 ), Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano ( 1952 ), and John Wyndham's Re-Birth ( 1953 ), works which we will later examine in detail.

How effectively these warnings can be presented is seen in Pohl and Kornbluth's The Space Merchants, Vonnegut's Player Piano and Wyndham's Re-Birth.

To this end, he compares George Orwell's Coming Up for Air with Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants and concludes that the basic building block and distinguishing feature of a science fiction novel is the presence of the novum, a term Darko Suvin adapts from Ernst Bloch and defines as " a discrete piece of information recognizable as not-true, but also as not-unlike-true, not-flatly-( and in the current state of knowledge ) impossible ".

The model of a planet covered in clouds of polymeric formaldehyde dust was never as popular as a swamp or jungle, but featured in several notable stories, like Poul Anderson's The Big Rain ( 1954 ), and Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth's novel The Space Merchants ( 1953 ).

When he finally does so, Madison is taken in by government scientists led by Kornbluth's cold-hearted former colleague and rival Dr. Ross ( Richard B. Shull ) for examination.

Cyril M. Kornbluth's 1951 short story The Marching Morons is an example of dysgenic fiction, describing a man who accidentally ends up in the distant future to find out that dysgenics has resulted in mass stupidity.

Pohl and Kornbluth's ad men have long since thrown out appeals to reason and developed techniques of advertising which tie in with `` every basic trauma and neurosis in American life '', which work on the libido of consumers, which are linked to the `` great prime motivations of the human spirit ''.

Di Filippo argues that precursors of ribofunk fiction include H. G. Wells ' The Island of Doctor Moreau ; Julian Huxley's The Tissue Culture King ; some of David H. Keller's stories, Damon Knight's Natural State and Other Stories ; Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth's Gravy Planet ; novels of T. J. Bass and Varley ; Greg Bear's Blood Music and Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix.

Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.

While The Space Merchants indicates, as Kingsley Amis has correctly observed, some of the `` impending consequences of the growth of industrial and commercial power '' and satirizes `` existing habits in the advertising profession '', its warning and analysis penetrate much deeper.

The Space Merchants, like such humanist documents as Joseph Wood Krutch's The Measure Of Man and C. S. Lewis's The Abolition Of Man, considers what may result from the scientific study of human nature.

This rumor is a plot point of the science fiction novel The Space Merchants, by Frederik Pohl ( w / CM Kornbluth ).

During the early 1950s, Ballantine attracted attention as one of the leading publishers of paperback science fiction and fantasy, beginning with The Space Merchants (# 21 ).

Other notable books mentioning artificial meat include The Space Merchants ( 1952 ) by Frederik Pohl and C. M.

** Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth, The Space Merchants.

* The Space Merchants is a science fiction novel, written by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth in 1952, about the campaign by advertising agencies on an overpopulated Earth to convince humans to colonize Venus, which is depicted as having a harsh and stormy tropical climate.

* 1953 – The first U. S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.

Singer moved back to the United States in 1953, where he took up an associate professorship in physics at the University of Maryland, and at the same time served as the director of the Center for Atmospheric and Space Physics.

Literary agent Bernard Shir-Cliff convinced Ballantine Books to buy everything Clarke had, including Childhood's End, " Encounter in the Dawn " ( 1953 ), ( which Ballantine changed to Expedition to Earth ), and Prelude to Space ( 1951 ).

After the book was published in 1953, the U. S. Apollo 11 mission landed the first humans on Earth's Moon 16 years later in 1969 ; Two decades later, President George H. W. Bush announced the Space Exploration Initiative ( SEI ) in 1989, calling for astronauts to eventually explore Mars.

" Second Variety " is an influential short story by Philip K. Dick first published in Space Science Fiction magazine, in May 1953.

" Second Variety " was first published in the May 1953 issue of Space Science Fiction magazine.

In 1953, Oberth returned to Feucht, Germany, to publish his book Menschen im Weltraum ( Men in Space ), in which he described his ideas for space-based reflecting telescopes, space stations, electric-powered spaceships, and space suits.

Previously the scat backing vocal " doo-wop " can be heard in The Clovers ' 1953 release " Good Lovin '" ( Atlantic Records 1000 ) and in the chorus of Carlyle Dundee & The Dundees ' 1954 song " Never " ( Space Records 201 ).

* Russell Johnson, actor, including It Came from Outer Space ( 1953 ) and This Island Earth ( 1955 ); best known to audiences as " The Professor " on Gilligan's Island TV series

* Journey Into Space ( 1953 – 1958 ): Science fiction series which was the last UK radio programme to achieve a higher audience than television.

Colm J. Meaney (; Irish: Colm Ó Maonaigh ; born 30 May 1953 ) is an Irish actor widely known for playing Miles O ' Brien in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

However, major international recognition came with his science fiction trilogy Journey Into Space which he wrote and produced between 1953 and 1958.

The January 19, 1953 cover of TV-Radio Life Magazine depicts the stars of the popular television sci-fi series, Space Patrol.

2 No. 2, July 1953 and Space Science Fiction, September 1953 with the US publication illustrated by Alex Ebel.

Robert Brent " Bob " Thirsk, ( born August 17, 1953 ) is a Canadian engineer and physician, and a former Canadian Space Agency astronaut.

His works from the 1950s and ' 60s are regarded as classics of popular science and include The Conquest of Space 1949 ( with Chesley Bonestell ), The Conquest of the Moon ( with Wernher von Braun and Fred Whipple, 1953 ), and Beyond the Solar System ( 1964 ).

The character is introduced in Adventures of a Honeybee ( 1953 ), but did not make its debut as lead character until 1978's Space Pirate Captain Harlock.

Nikolai Mikhailovich Budarin () ( born April 29, 1953 in Kirya, Chuvashia ) is a Russian cosmonaut, a veteran of three extended space missions aboard the Mir Space Station and the International Space Station.

Beatty's film credits include: San Demetrio London ( 1943 ), Another Shore ( 1948 ), Captain Horatio Hornblower ( 1951 ), The Square Ring ( 1953 ), The Amorous Prawn ( 1962 ), 2001: A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ), Where Eagles Dare ( 1968 ), The Pink Panther Strikes Again ( 1976 ), Superman III ( 1983 ), Minder on the Orient Express ( 1985 ) and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace ( 1987 ).

He only published one science fiction novel in book form, Space Lawyer ( 1953 ), which originally appeared in Astounding in 1941.

* Aliens ( Kaypro video game ), a text-only clone of Space Invaders written for the CP / M operating system

In 1950 it was combined with " War of Nerves " ( 1950 ), " Discord in Scarlet " ( 1939 ) and " M33 in Andromeda " ( 1943 ) to form the novel The Voyage of the Space Beagle ( 1950 ).

NASA's planned Space Interferometry Mission ( SIM PlanetQuest ) ( now cancelled ) was to utilize astrometric techniques to detect terrestrial planets orbiting 200 or so of the nearest solar-type stars, and the European Space Agency's GAIA ( due to launch in 2012 ), which will be applying astrometric techniques in its stellar census.

The Apollo program was the third human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ), the United States ' civilian space agency.

Under Webb's reorganization, the directors of the Manned Spacecraft Center ( Gilruth ), Marshall Space Flight Center ( von Braun ), and the Launch Operations Center ( Debus ) effectively reported to Mueller.

It could be said that Aalto's international reputation was sealed with his inclusion in the second edition of Sigfried Giedion's influential book on Modernist architecture, Space, Time and Architecture: The growth of a new tradition ( 1949 ), in which Aalto received more attention than any other Modernist architect, including Le Corbusier.

The characters have made cameo appearances ( either visually or only voices ) and have been referenced in numerous television shows, such as Friends, Two and a Half Men, Celebrity Deathmatch, Robot Chicken, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, and Saturday Night Live ( TV Funhouse ), in films such as Airheads, Clueless, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and Jackass 3D, and even parodied in children shows such as Tiny Toon Adventures, Regular Show and Arthur.

The red-headed Mumy came to prominence in the 1960s as a child actor, most notably as Will Robinson, the youngest of the three children of Prof. John and Dr. Maureen Robinson ( played by Guy Williams and June Lockhart respectively ) and friend of the nefarious and pompous Dr. Zachary Smith ( played by Jonathan Harris ), in the 1960s CBS sci-fi television series Lost in Space.

He is perhaps best known for his role as Will Robinson on the CBS science fiction television series Lost in Space ( 1965 – 1968 ), as well as for his role as ambassadorial aide Lennier in the syndicated series Babylon 5 ( 1994 – 1998 ).

* Sinnott, Roger W. and Perryman, Michael A. C. ( 1997 ) Millennium Star Atlas, Epoch 2000. 0, Sky Publishing Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U. S. A., and European Space Agency ( ESA ), ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

The movie Office Space ( 1999 ), which lost money during its box office run, managed to turn significant profits when word-of-mouth made it a popular video rental and purchase.

* Columbus ( ISS module ), the European module for the International Space Station

Coleman launched on December 15, 2010 ( December 16 Baikonur time ), aboard Soyuz TMA-20 to join the Expedition 26 mission aboard the International Space Station.

The Spitzer Science Center ( SSC ), part of the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center located on the Caltech campus, is the data analysis and community support center for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

A. E. van Vogt used the idea as a plot device in his story " M33 in Andromeda " ( 1943 ), which was later combined with the three other Space Beagle stories to became the novel, The Voyage of the Space Beagle.

Famous Brâncuși works include the Sleeping Muse ( 1908 ), The Kiss ( 1908 ), Prometheus ( 1911 ), Mademoiselle Pogany ( 1913 ), The Newborn ( 1915 ), Bird in Space ( 1919 ) and The Column of the Infinite ( Coloana infinitului ), popularly known as The Endless Column ( 1938 ).

Athena Tacha Spear's book, Brâncuși's Birds, ( CAA monographs XXI, NYU Press, New York, 1969 ), first sorted out the 36 versions and their development, from the early Măiastra, to the Golden Bird of the late teens, to the Bird in Space, which emerged in the early ' 20s and which Brâncuși perfected throughout his life.