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40–45, 47, 50, 51, 55–56, 56, 63–64, 72, 74–75, 107, 140–141, 140 , 154, 184, 195, 296, 271; see also National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    in World War II, 34
    Uranus:
    probes to, 52
    as uninhabitable, 125
    V-2 ballistic missile (Retaliation/Vengeance Weapon 2), 30–36, 33 , 47, 48
    vacuum:
    as lethal, 54, 108
    rocket function in, 30
    of space, 70, 108, 126, 195, 222
    Vanguard rocket, 36–38, 269
    Van Thillo, Mark, 194
    Vega (star), 236
    Venera 7, 51
    Venus:
    Earth compared to, 171, 215
    fly-by of, 51
    nanobot exploration of, 182
    probes to, 40, 51, 184, 270
    property rights on, 145
    as uninhabitable, 124
    Verne, Jules, 26, 28, 117, 183, 239
    vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) rockets, 103
    Very Large Array, 236
    videoconferencing, 176
    video games:
    evolution of, 175–77
    simulation compared to, 261
    Vietnam War, 158
    Viking probes, 51, 52 , 164, 176
    Virgin Atlantic airline, 87
    Virgin Galactic, 88–89, 88 , 101, 105–6, 113
    Virgin Group, 87
    Virgin records, 86–87
    virtual reality, 176–77
    volcanoes:
    on Earth, 119, 202
    on Io, 53, 177
    as source of heat energy, 124
    super-, 245
    Volna rocket, 184
    Vomit Comet, 114
    von Braun, Wernher, 28, 30–36, 38, 76, 140, 166–67, 269
    von Kármán, Theodore, 141
    von Littrow, Joseph, 238
    von Neumann, John, 227, 258–59
    von Neumann probes, 227, 258
    Voskhod 2 spacecraft, 108
    Vostok 1 spacecraft, 40–41
    Voyager 1, 52, 53, 121, 121 , 125, 219, 225
    Voyager aircraft, 83
    Wakata, Koichi, 273
    Wallace, Alfred Russel, 164
    Wang Yaping, 142–43
    Wan Hu, 21–22, 22 , 24, 31, 139, 141
    warfare, rockets in, 22–24, 30, 32–34
    War of the Worlds, The (Wells), 164
    warp drive, 228–29
    Warwick, Kevin, 206–8
    Wasp 18b (exoplanet), 132
    water:
    acidification of, 195
    as biomarker, 217–18
    on Earth, 172
    on Europa, 125
    on exoplanets, 132
    on Mars, 124–25, 163–66, 165 , 170, 172, 173
    on Moon, 159–61
    as requirement for life, 123–25, 132, 214, 217
    in space travel, 116, 159
    Watson, Thomas, 213
    weaponry:
    nuclear, 36, 38
    technological roots of, 22–24
    weightlessness, 54, 88, 114, 167–68, 200
    Weisman, A., 293
    Welles, Orson, 164
    Wells, H. G., 28, 164
    Wells, Spencer, 7
    White, Ed, 43
    White Knight, 85
    White Knight II, 88
    Whittle, Frank, 69
    Wigner, Eugene, 227
    wind tunnels, 84
    Wolfe, Tom, 272
    Woman in the Moon , 28
    women:
    in space programs, 73, 74, 142–43
    see also specific individuals
    World War II, 30, 33–35, 33 , 108 , 141
    World Without Us, The (Weisman), 293
    wormholes, 255
    “Wow!” signal, 237
    Wright brothers, 69
    X1 Robotic Exoskeleton, 205, 206
    X-15, 71–72, 82, 85
    X-37, 72, 85
    XCOR, 101
    Xie Haisheng, 143
    Xi Jinping, 143, 144
    X-planes, 71
    X Prizes, 84–85, 88, 91–93, 92 , 97, 147, 156, 161, 273–74, 280
    Yahoo search engine, 79
    Yang Hui, 24
    Yang Liwei, 142
    Y chromosomes, 6
    Yeager, Chuck, 71, 73, 84, 272
    Yeager, Jeana, 84
    Year Million , 250
    YouTube, 95, 213–14
    Z-2 spacesuit, 195–96
    Zero G Corporation, 93
    zero gravity, 54, 93, 101, 148
    physiological effects of, 114–15, 167–68
    sex in, 200, 214
    Zhang Yuhua, 162
    Zheng He, 109
    Zip2, 95
    Zond 5, 49
    Zubrin, Robert, 166, 168, 169 , 174, 223

ALSO BY CHRIS IMPEY
    Humble Before the Void
    Shadow World
    Dreams of Other Worlds
    How It Began
    How It Ends
    The Living Cosmos

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