Vance Astro is a mutant who possesses a psychokinetic ability, limited to projecting concussive blasts.
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25 Facts About Vance Astro
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Vance Astro first appeared as a founding member of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
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Vance Astro had to become Major Victory before he could become Major Astro, but that's where he was heading.
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Vance Astro remained a member through the series' cancellation with issue 25, but the team disbanded after The Thanos Imperative.
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Vance Astro appeared along with the rest of the original Guardians of the Galaxy team in the 2014 series Guardians 3000.
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In 1988, Vance Astro volunteered for the first crewed interstellar mission ever conducted by the United States, Project: Starjump.
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Vance Astro was launched into space from the Houston Airport in the fall of 1988.
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Upset at having sacrificed his life on Earth for no purpose, Vance Astro was determined to carry out the mission to categorize the plant life he was assigned a millennium ago, even though it would now be superfluous.
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Vance Astro kept this secret, as it was illegal for this species to attack a colonist.
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Vance Astro then traveled to the present alongside his fellow Guardians, and assisted the Avengers in battle against Korvac.
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Years later, on a trip to the present-day Marvel Universe, Vance Astro encountered his younger self and convinced him not to join the USAF.
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Vance Astro accidentally awoke the younger Vance's telekinetic powers, ensuring the divergence.
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Vance Astro went on a quest to find the lost shield of Captain America.
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Vance Astro battled Taserface and the Stark during the quest, and defeated the Stark.
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Vance Astro was healed by Krugarr, Doctor Strange's former apprentice and the current Sorcerer Supreme, and was freed from his containment suit.
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Vance Astro then adopted a costume similar to that of Captain America to go with the shield and took the name Major Victory.
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Vance Astro was saved by a symbiotic costume, seemingly of the same species as Venom.
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Vance Astro is discovered encased in ice on the asteroid Hydronis by the new Guardians of the Galaxy team leader Star-Lord.
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Vance Astro later joins this incarnation of the Guardians of the Galaxy and helps to rescue Peter Quill from Blastaar.
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Vance Astro later joins Rocket Raccoon's team on their mission to stop the War of Kings.
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Vance Astro is a mutant who possesses the psionic ability of psychokinesis, the ability to affect matter with his mind.
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Vance Astro can focus the energy at will, creating anything from a narrow 2-inch-diameter beam to a 360 degree expanding sphere of force.
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Over time, Vance Astro has shown some marginal improvement of the control of his psychokinesis, such as generating small psionic pulses to slow the descent of falling people, or gentle psychic bursts to move objects forwards or backwards.
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Vance Astro is often seen wearing a copper alloy bodysuit, which preserved his body on his 1,000-year journey through space, and prevents his body from decaying when exposed to air.
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Vance Astro is an above average athlete and an excellent hand-to-hand combatant, having received unarmed combat training in the US Air Force in the 20th Century.
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