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Author
Index
K |
Gary
Kilworth |
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Title
Index
A |
Abandonati |
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| Year |
1988 |
| Publisher |
Unwin
Hyman |
| ISBN |
0044403917 |
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Synopsis
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An
unexplained
apocalypse has
left a motley crew
of dazed survivors
scavenging in the
wreckage of the
deserted
city. Guppy,
an alcoholic
haunted by dreams
of a past he
barely remembers
and of a future he
cannot understand,
and his
companions,
Trader, and
Rupert, a scrappy
runt with a genius
for machinery, set
out on an odyssey
to find the parts
to build a
spaceship that
will take them to
the world of the
rich people. |
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Credit:
NASA
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Godspeed
This
replica of
the 17th
century
ship
Godspeed
was under
full sail
when it
cruised
past the
Statute of
Liberty in
New York
harbor. A
team from
NASA
traveled
with the
Godspeed
to six
East Coast
ports
during the
summer
with an
interactive
exhibit
highlighting
the
connections
between
the
adventurous
men and
women who
settled in
Virginia
almost 400
years ago
and NASA's
plans to
explore
space and
establish
a presence
on other
worlds.
NASA's
exhibit
gave an
estimated
190,000
visitors
the chance
to make a
personalized
"space
postcard,"
take
photographs
as an
astronaut
or settler
and win
prizes in
a NASA
trivia
game.
The
Godspeed
-- an
88-foot
replica of
the ship
that
brought
the first
English
colonists
to America
-- acted
as a
floating
museum,
educating
more than
456,000
visitors
in six
cities
about
exploration
of the
past.
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NASA
Image of
the day
archive |
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