Outward Odyssey: a People's History of Spaceflight – serie
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Born to Explore
John Casani's Grand Tour of the Solar System
Inbunden, 2025
436 kr
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Once, there were giants in the heavens: billion-dollar machines of wonder and science that flew to the outermost planets and told us what secrets had been lying in wait. In charge of the people and processes behind these missions was a humble father of five who did the job not for money or prestige …
Ultimate Engineer
The Remarkable Life of NASA's Visionary Leader George M. Low
Inbunden, 2019
462 kr
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This well-researched book is as much a history of NASA as a biography of George Low, and as such is an important contribution to the history of the agency. Jurek's detailed book will appeal to both fans and scholars of NASA and of the engineers like Low who make the agency's spaceflights work.-Sara …
Star Bound
A Beginner's Guide to the American Space Program, from Goddard's Rockets to Goldilocks Planets and Everything in Between
Av Emily Carney, Bruce McCandless
Inbunden, 2025
391 kr
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Star Bound is a book for anyone who wants to learn about the American space program but isn’t sure where to start. First and foremost, it’s a history-short, sweet, and straightforward. From rocketry pioneer Robert Goddard’s primitive flight tests in 1926 through the creation of NASA, from our first …
Realizing Tomorrow
The Path to Private Spaceflight
Av Chris Dubbs, Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom
Inbunden, 2011
436 kr
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U.S.A.F. Chief of Staff 2013 Professional Reading List Selection Nearly forty years passed between the Apollo moon landings, the grandest accomplishment of a government-run space program, and the Ansari X PRIZE–winning flights of SpaceShipOne, the greatest achievement of a private space program. …
Outposts on the Frontier
A Fifty-Year History of Space Stations
Av Jay Chladek
Inbunden, 2017
540 kr
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The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest man-made structure to orbit Earth and has been conducting research for close to a decade and a half. Yet it is only the latest in a long line of space stations and laboratories that have flown in orbit since the early 1970s. The histories of …
Into That Silent Sea
Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965
Av Francis French, Colin Burgess
Häftad, 2009
254 kr
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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 lives of those who made the golden age of space flight happen. These are the moments and the lives that …
Bold They Rise
The Space Shuttle Early Years, 1972-1986
Av David Hitt, Heather R. Smith
Inbunden, 2014
421 kr
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After the Apollo program put twelve men on the moon and safely brought them home, anything seemed possible. In this spirit, the team at NASA set about developing the Space Shuttle, arguably the most complex piece of machinery ever created. The world’s first reusable spacecraft, it launched like a …
Footprints in the Dust
The Epic Voyages of Apollo, 1969-1975
Inbunden, 2010
421 kr
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Following the fortieth anniversary of Apollo 11, as NASA prepares to return astronauts to the moon, Footprints in the Dust offers a thorough, engrossing, and multifaceted account of the Apollo missions. The flight of Apollo 11 was a triumph of human endeavor, persistence, and technology, one of the …
X-15 Rocket Plane
Flying the First Wings Into Space
Inbunden, 2013
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463 kr
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With the Soviet Union’s launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold War soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into space. The X-15 Rocket Plane tells the enthralling yet little-known story of the hypersonic X-15, the winged rocket ship that met this challenge and …
In the Shadow of the Moon
A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969
Av Francis French, Colin Burgess
Häftad, 2010
275 kr
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In the Shadow of the Moon tells the story of the most exciting and challenging years in spaceflight, with two superpowers engaged in a titanic struggle to land one of their own people on the moon. Drawing on interviews with astronauts, cosmonauts, their families, technicians, and scientists, as …
Infinity Beckoned
Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969–1989
Inbunden, 2016
424 kr
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Infinity Beckoned illuminates a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system. With an irreverent and engaging style, Jay Gallentine conveys the trials and triumphs of the people on the ground who conceived and engineered the missions that put …
Wheels Stop
The Tragedies and Triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986–2011
Av Rick Houston
Inbunden, 2013
458 kr
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Humanity’s first reusable spacecraft and the most complex machine ever built, NASA’s Space Shuttle debuted with great promise and as a dependable source of wonder and national pride. But with the Challenger catastrophe in 1986, the whole Space Shuttle program came into question, as did NASA itself, …
Homesteading Space
The Skylab Story
Av David Hitt, Owen Garriott m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
259 kr
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As the United States and the Soviet Union went from exploring space to living in it, a space station was conceived as the logical successor to the Apollo moon program. But between conception and execution stood the vastness of space itself, to say nothing of the monumental technological challenges. …
To a Distant Day
The Rocket Pioneers
Av Chris Gainor
Häftad, 2013
275 kr
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“Insightful, instructive, and definitely worth the read.”-Greg Andres, Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada“As someone who has been teaching a course on space exploration for many years and has visited most of NASA’s space centers, I have found plenty of new and valuable material in …
Ambassadors from Earth
Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft
Häftad, 2014
331 kr
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Ambassadors from Earth reminds us that our first mad scrambles to reach orbit, the moon, and the planets were littered with enough histrionics and cliff-hanging turmoil to rival the most far-out sci-fi film. But it all really happened!Drawing on original interviews with key players and bolstered by …
Apollo Pilot
The Memoir of Astronaut Donn Eisele
Av Donn Eisele, Francis French
Inbunden, 2017
363 kr
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In October 1968 Donn Eisele flew with fellow astronauts Walt Cunningham and Wally Schirra into Earth orbit in Apollo 7. The first manned mission in the Apollo program and the first manned flight after a fire during a launch pad test killed three astronauts in early 1967, Apollo 7 helped restart …
Realizing Tomorrow
The Path to Private Spaceflight
Av Chris Dubbs, Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom
Häftad, 2013
275 kr
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U.S.A.F. Chief of Staff 2013 Professional Reading List Selection Nearly forty years passed between the Apollo moon landings, the grandest accomplishment of a government-run space program, and the Ansari X PRIZE–winning flights of SpaceShipOne, the greatest achievement of a private space program. …
Go, Flight!
The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965–1992
Inbunden, 2015
471 kr
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The inspiration for the documentary Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of ApolloAt first glance, it looks like just another auditorium in just another government building. But among the talented men (and later women) who worked in mission control, the room located on the third floor of Building …
Come Fly with Us
NASA's Payload Specialist Program
Av Melvin Croft, John Youskauskas
Inbunden, 2019
513 kr
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Winner of the 2020 Space Hipsters Prize for Best Book in Astronomy, Space Exploration, or Space HistoryCome Fly with Us is the story of an elite group of space travelers who flew as members of many space shuttle crews from pre-Challenger days to Columbia in 2003. Not part of the regular NASA …
Fallen Astronauts
Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon, Revised Edition
Inbunden, 2016
437 kr
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Near the end of the Apollo 15 mission, David Scott and fellow moonwalker James Irwin conducted a secret ceremony unsanctioned by NASA: they placed on the lunar soil a small tin figurine called The Fallen Astronaut, along with a plaque bearing a list of names. By telling the stories of those sixteen …
Go, Flight!
The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965–1992
Häftad, 2017
254 kr
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The inspiration for the documentary Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of ApolloAt first glance, it looks like just another auditorium in just another government building. But among the talented men (and later women) who worked in mission control, the room located on the third floor of Building …
Shattered Dreams
The Lost and Canceled Space Missions
Inbunden, 2019
392 kr
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Shattered Dreams delves into the personal stories and recollections of several men and women who were in line to fly a specific or future space mission but lost that opportunity due to personal reasons, mission cancellations, or even tragedies. While some of the subjects are familiar names in …
Long Voyage to the Moon
The Life of Naval Aviator and Apollo 17 Astronaut Ron Evans
Inbunden, 2021
434 kr
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As command module pilot of Apollo 17, the last crewed flight to the moon, Ron Evans combined precision flying and painstaking geological observation with moments of delight and enthusiasm. On his way to the launchpad, he literally jumped for joy in his spacesuit. Emerging from the command module to …
Beyond Blue Skies
The Rocket Plane Programs That Led to the Space Age
Av Chris Petty
Inbunden, 2020
424 kr
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Chris Petty has written a book that covers much of the unheralded research into high-speed flight that helped set the stage for human spaceflight. I recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in the early history of rocket flight.-Al Worden, command module pilot for Apollo 15In 1945 some …
Into the Void
Adventures of the Spacewalkers
Av John Youskauskas, Melvin Croft
Inbunden, 2025
438 kr
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The world had been fascinated with astronauts and spaceflight since well before the first crewed launches in 1961, when Yuri Gagarin, Alan Shepard, and John Glenn became household names. But when Alexei Leonov of the Soviet Union exited his spacecraft in March of 1965, a new era in spaceflight …
Wheels Stop
The Tragedies and Triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986–2011
Av Rick Houston
Häftad, 2021
312 kr
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Humanity’s first reusable spacecraft and the most complex machine ever built, NASA’s Space Shuttle debuted with great promise and as a dependable source of wonder and national pride. But with the Challenger catastrophe in 1986, the whole Space Shuttle program came into question, as did NASA itself, …
Light of Earth
Reflections on a Life in Space
Inbunden, 2021
363 kr
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Apollo 15 command module pilot Al Worden was one of the highest-profile personalities among the Apollo astronauts, renowned for his outspokenness and potent views but also recognized as a warm and well-liked person who devoted much of his life after retiring from NASA to sharing his spaceflight …
Bold They Rise
The Space Shuttle Early Years, 1972-1986
Av David Hitt, Heather R. Smith
Häftad, 2021
297 kr
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After the Apollo program put twelve men on the moon and safely brought them home, anything seemed possible. In this spirit, the team at NASA set about developing the Space Shuttle, arguably the most complex piece of machinery ever created. The world’s first reusable spacecraft, it launched like a …
Ultimate Engineer
The Remarkable Life of NASA's Visionary Leader George M. Low
Häftad, 2021
331 kr
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This well-researched book is as much a history of NASA as a biography of George Low, and as such is an important contribution to the history of the agency. Jurek's detailed book will appeal to both fans and scholars of NASA and of the engineers like Low who make the agency's spaceflights work.-Sara …
X-15 Rocket Plane
Flying the First Wings Into Space
Häftad, 2022
399 kr
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With the Soviet Union’s launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold War soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into space. The X-15 Rocket Plane tells the enthralling yet little-known story of the hypersonic X-15, the winged rocket ship that met this challenge and …
