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Too Far From Home: A Story of Life and Death in Space
An incredible, true-life
adventure set on the most
dangerous frontier of
all—outer spaceIn the
nearly forty years since
Neil Armstrong walked on the
... > full story
Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots Is Boldly Privatizing Space
In the more than forty
years since the first human
left the atmosphere of
Earth, no one had ever done
so without the help of a
... > full story
Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
In 1978, the first group of
space shuttle astronauts was
introduced to the world --
twenty-nine men and six
women who would carry NASA
... > full story
We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race
How Apollo commander
Stafford defused the Cold
War in space by leading the
way to Soviet/US
cooperation. What an
amazing career—Tom
... > full story
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ISScapades: The Crippling of America's Space Program: Apogee Books Space Series #59 (Apogee Books Space Series)
Covering the International Space Station’s (ISS) inception through the launching of the first two components nearly two decades later, this insider’s account details its demise from a ... > read more -
The Hazards of Space Travel: A Tourist's Guide
“I didn’t think about the dangers before going into space, but now I realize how hazardous it is!”–Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, first person to walk in spaceWith the opening of ... > read more -
"Live from Cape Canaveral": Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to Today
Some fifty years ago, while a cub reporter, Jay Barbree caught space fever the night that Sputnik passed over Georgia. He moved to the then-sleepy village of Cocoa Beach, Florida, right outside Cape ... > read more -
Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
In 1957, the Russians launched Sputnik and the ensuing space race. Three years later, Gene Kranz left his aircraft testing job to join NASA and champion the American cause. What he found was an ... > read more -
After Sputnik: 50 Years of the Space Age
In the 50 years since Sputnik's historic orbit kickstarted a race to the stars, spaceflight has moved from a speculative and experimental science to a staple of contemporary life. Space exploration ... > read more -
Physics of the Space Environment (Cambridge Atmospheric and Space Science Series)
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the physical phenomena that result from the interaction of the sun and the planets - often termed space weather. Physics of the Space Environment ... > read more -
Space Flight
Published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first space flight, this beautifully illustrated book about the history of man in space covers every detail of the quest for the final frontier, ... > read more -
The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space: Apogee Books Space Series 12 (Apogee Books Space Series)
Rocket man, I think it's going to be a long, long time. When Princeton physicist Gerard K. O'Neill published the first edition of High Frontier back in the mid 1970s (just four years after "Rocket ... > read more -
Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of S)
It was a time of bold new technology, historic moments, and international jousting on the final frontier. But it was also a time of human drama, of moments less public but no less dramatic in the ... > read more -
This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age (Modern Library Paperbacks)
More comprehensive than The Right Stuff, more critical than Apollo 13, This New Ocean is a near-perfect history of the men (and occasional women) who have "slipped the surly bonds of Earth." Eminent ... > read more
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