This end appears to be achieved with the Astra type of dirigible, the story of the development of which offers an interesting chapter in the annals of aeronautics.
It was pitted against the "Colonel Renard," the finest ship at that time in the French aerial service, which had proved the fastest airship in commission, and which also was a product of the Astra Company.
He would try to locate the spacer for the sake of the stranger; Astra owed Raf all they could manage to give him.
What would the men of Astra accomplish in a hundred years?
But those who had awakened on Astra were different.
But only his species on all Astra had five fingers, five toes, and that physical evidence might insure his safety now.
This wide-open land could have been always a wilderness, left to the animals of Astra for their own.
The fauna of Astra was shy of any holding built by Those Others, no matter how long it may have been left to the wind, and cleansing rain.
Were these creatures sprawled here in sleep ones that had known the domination of Those Others--though the fall of the master race of Astra must have occurred generations, hundreds of years in the past?
But the time was not yet when the men of Astra and the men of Terra should meet.
SIC ITUR AD ASTRA If it be educational to breast Salt lipped the wave that is the woe of Earth, Who could be called a fool?
You're going up to the top of the dome right against that Ad Astra per Aspera business up there, and open the west window and look out at the world the Lord made to heal hurt souls by looking at.
The softened light of the dome of the rotunda, where the Kansas motto, "Ad Astra per Aspera.
As we steamed out the Astra Torres, a huge airship, hovered over us.
The Astra is one of the few ships which have ever gone beyond Ventura B!
Jacobs ran his finger down a chart and discovered to his surprise that the Astra had only two hundred hours on its log since the last overhaul.
Usually Wayne was quite efficient, but even efficient men have bad days, and on one of those days Wayne had removed from the active list the name of Astrainstead of its sister ship, the Storan.
The very next morning the Astra had been turned over to Maintenance.
He scratched his head but decided that if Operations wanted the Astra tuned it was none of his business.
The second Astra was of smaller capacity and was delivered, but as will be seen later, was never rigged, the envelope being used for the original coastal ship and the car slung to the envelope of the ex-army airship Eta.
The Astra was also employed off the Belgian coast to assist the naval landing party at Ostend, and together with the Parseval assisted in patrolling the Channel during the first winter of the war.
The car was composed of a long frame, having a centre compartment for the crew and engines, which was the standard practice at that time for ships designed by the Astra Company.
The inventor of these envelopes was a Spaniard, Senor Torres Quevedo, who manufactured them in conjunction with theAstra Company in Paris.
In later days vessels were built by the Astra Company of the peculiar design introduced by Senor Torres.
At the very outbreak of war scouting trips were made out into the North Sea beyond the mouth of the Thames by the Astra and Parseval, and both these ships patrolled the Channel during the passage of the Expeditionary Force.
They were manufactured by the Astra Company in conjunction with Monsieur Clement, a motor engineer.
The Astra-Torres non-rigids were designed by a Spaniard, Senor Torres, and built by theAstra Company.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "astra" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
