We were meeting in the Oval Office and I saw the morning news report and I just happened casually to mention to George I says- 'Well I'll betcha that President Johnson is gonna be real pleased when he finds that now they are calling me the number one bomber.' And George Christian said 'Oh don't be too sure.' He says, 'You know LBJ- he never likes to be number two.'

For interorbit communications Artemis was planned to communicate with the same SPOT 4, the European environmental satellite Envisat and OICETS.

There is a tenthousandfold difference between the extremes of sensitivity among different types of living cells when measured by the lethal effect.

But it is the doubt thrown on the prospect of arrival, the falterings of purpose and belief, the renewals of hope that give the novel its drive and energy.