Bold
Endeavors: Lessons from Polar and Space Exploration
by Jack Stuster
Hardcover from United States Naval Inst.
The
Adventures of Sojourner : The Mission to Mars That Thrilled the World
by Susi Trautmann Wunsch, Fpl, Susi Trautmann Wunsch
Paperback from Mikaya Pr
Beyond
the Moon: Golden Age of Planetary Exploration 1971-1978 (Smithsonian History
of Aviation and Spaceflight Series)
by Robert S. Kraemer, Roger D. Launius
(Hardcover)
Apollo
: An Eyewitness Account By Astronaut / Explorer Artist/Moonwalker
by Alan Bean, John Glenn
Hardcover from Greenwich Pr Ltd
Apollo:
The Epic Journey to the Moon
by David Reynolds, Wally Schirra, Von Hardesty
Book Description: NASA's Apollo answered President Kennedy's 1961 directive
to land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth by the end of
the decade. The astronauts, scientists, and mission control operators who
took part in the fifteen manned Apollo missions not only accomplished this
memorable triumph of courage and technical ingenuity, they stirred the
world's imagination and redefined the notion of what is truly possible.In
this captivating story of adventure and exploration, expert David West
Reynolds presents a complete and engaging reconstruction of all the key
events and personalities in the Apollo program. From the thrilling experiences
of the astronauts to the men of extraordinary vision and skill who built
a reality out of a dream, Reynolds captures the drama of this epic journey.Rendering
complex and technical material into accessible terms for the uninitiated
reader, while providing unusual details for the aficionado, Apollo: The
Epic Journey to the Moon takes you along on the most unforgettable ride
of the twentieth century.
Hardcover from Harcourt
Apollo 13: The NASA Mission Reports
by Robert Godwin
Listed under NASA Mission Reports
The
CASE FOR MARS
by Robert Zubrin
Paperback from Free Press
Countdown
: A History of Space Flight
by T. A. Heppenheimer
Paperback from John Wiley & Sons
Entering
Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization
by Robert Zubrin
Paperback from J. P. Tarcher
Failure
Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
by Gene Kranz
Paperback from Berkley Pub Group
Introduction
to Space: The Science of Spaceflight (Orbit, a Foundation Series)
by Thomas Damon
Paperback from Krieger Publishing Company
Managing Martians
by Donna Shirley et al.
Donna Shirley dreamed of going to Mars since she was a starstruck kid
in Oklahoma, reading science fiction and staring up at the big Western
sky. Managing Martians chronicles her life from flight-obsessed childhood
to the realization of her dream as manager of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's
Mars Exploration Program--the people who sent Pathfinder and the rover
Sojourner to the red planet in 1997.
Listed under Women in Space
Moon
Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module (Smithsonian History of
Aviation and Spaceflight Series)
by Thomas J. Kelly
(Hardcover)
Space
and the American Imagination (Smithsonian History of Aviation Series)
by Howard E. McCurdy
(Paperback)
Space
Mission Analysis and Design, 3rd edition (Space Technology Library)
by James R. Wertz
Paperback from Microcosm, Inc
1992
Memories
of the Space Age
by J. G. Ballard
Prophetic science fiction by the author of Empire of the Sun
Hardcover from Arkham House Pub
Special Order
The
Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of
Space Flight
by Martha Ackmann, Lynn Sherr
Hardcover from Random House
Modern
Spacecraft Dynamics and Control
by Marshall H. Kaplan
Hardcover from John Wiley & Sons
1976
Project
Mercury: Nasa's First Manned Space Programme (Springer-Praxis Books in
Astronomy and Space Sciences)
by John Catchpole
Hardcover from Springer Verlag
Full
Moon
by Michael Light, Andrew Chaikin
Hardcover from Knopf
Power
to Explore: A History of Marshall Space Flight Center, 1960-1990
by Andrew J. Dunar, Stephen P. Waring
Hardcover from US Government Printing Office
Availability: Special Order
Introduction
to Space Flight
by Francis J. Hale
Paperback from Prentice Hall
1993
Availability: Special Order
Journey
to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Guidance Computer
by Eldon C. Hall
Paperback from American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics
The
Moonlandings : An Eyewitness Account
by Reginald Turnill
Hardcover from Cambridge University Press
Project
Apollo (Out of This World)
by Ray Spangenburg, Kit Moser, Diane Moser
School & Library Binding from Franklin Watts, Incorporated
Project
Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship
by George Dyson
Like cheap, shiny space suits and bug-eyed rubber monsters, nuclear-powered
spaceships today seem like little more than laughably naïve
1950s science fiction tropes. It might have been otherwise--and still could
be. George Dyson, son of supergenius physicist Freeman Dyson, wrote Project
Orion to share some of his father's amazing research with the world. Much
had been kept secret for years, but Dyson's unique insider status permits
great depth and breadth on this important tale. Conceived in the wake of
Sputnik, Project Orion was a true vision of '50s engineering: a huge 40-person
ship powered by hundreds of tiny atomic bombs, capable of much greater
lift and efficiency than chemically driven rockets. Struggles between NASA,
the military, Congress, and other parties doomed Orion, but Dyson has gathered
hundreds of documents and interviewed most of the researchers and engineers
who worked together, trying to reach "Saturn by 1970." His knack for storytelling
makes the book a quick, delightful read; even the staunchest anti-nuke
activist has to admit that lighting a cigarette off a parabolic mirror
facing a bomb test is pretty cool. By the end of the 20th century, technology
had caught up with the vision of Orion--it's considered one of our best
bets for long-distance space transit. Whether or not that could ever happen
politically, Project Orion is a compelling exploration of scientific imagination.
--Rob Lightner - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 320 pages
Henry Holt & Company, Inc.; ISBN: 0805059857; (April
) |
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The
Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space
by Eugene Cernan, Don Davis
Hardcover from St. Martin's Press
Interstellar
Travel: Past, Present, and Future
by John W. MacVey
Paperback from Scarborough House
1991
The
Rocket Men : Vostok and Voskhod, the First Soviet Manned Spaceflights
by Rex Hall, David J. Shayler
Paperback from Springer Verlag
Russian
Spacesuits
by Isaac Abramov, A. Ingemar Skoog, Isaak P. Abramov, Ingemar Skoog
Paperback from Springer Verlag
Space
Shuttle: The First 20 Years -- The Astronauts' Experiences in Their Own
Words
by Tony Reichhardt, Smithsonian Institution, Dorling Kindersley Publishing
Hardcover from DK Publishing
Mars
on Earth: The Adventures of Space Pioneers in the High Arctic
by Robert Zubrin
Hardcover from J. P. Tarcher
