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Apollo's Legacy : Perspectives on the Moon Landings (9781588346520) by Launius Roger D
epub |eng | 2019-05-14 | Author:Launius, Roger D.

Earthrise, one of the most powerful and iconic images from the Apollo program, was taken by astronaut Bill Anders in December 1968 during the Apollo 8 mission. This view of ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight May 14,2019 )
Neil Armstrong by Jay Barbree
epub |eng | | Author:Jay Barbree

With the moon closer to them than Earth, the astronauts had a crater-potted lunar surface staring them in the face. (NASA) It was a splendid, epochal moment sixty-nine hours and ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight April 27,2019 )
Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Michael Collins

All that from the cockpit of a Spitfire. What could he have said after one orbit? I cry that he was killed. * * * Day 4 begins with the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight April 18,2019 )
American Moonshot : John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race (9780062655080) by Brinkley Douglas
epub |eng | 2019-02-20 | Author:Brinkley, Douglas

ON A PARALLEL track, TV might have been invented for the use of space explorers. Throughout history, earthly explorers to unknown locales had returned with copious sketches and maps in ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 15,2019 )
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race by Douglas Brinkley
epub |eng | 2019-04-01 | Author:Douglas Brinkley

ON A PARALLEL track, TV might have been invented for the use of space explorers. Throughout history, earthly explorers to unknown locales had returned with copious sketches and maps in ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 15,2019 )
The Ordinary Spaceman by Clayton C. Anderson
epub |eng | 2015-03-22 | Author:Clayton C. Anderson [Anderson, Clayton C.]

Believe it or not, Russia’s version of winter survival training is easier. First of all, it’s only scheduled for two and a half days. Second, and perhaps most important, they ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight April 1,2019 )
The heavens and the earth : a political history of the space age by McDougall Walter A. 1946-
epub |eng | 1985-03-15 | Author:McDougall, Walter A., 1946-

Space Age Communism: The Khrushchevian Synthesis 293 "glorious" of all Soviet space feats, the three-man flight of Voskhod I, was brought back to earth mysteriously, after a single day in ...
( Category: History & Theory March 15,2019 )
Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11 by James Donovan
epub |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:James Donovan

The grief and shock felt throughout NASA—particularly in Houston, where so many knew the three men personally—were palpable. For their part, the astronauts knew they had to put the tragedy ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 12,2019 )
Space 2.0 by Rod Pyle
epub |eng | 2019-01-01 | Author:Rod Pyle

§120.1 General authorities, receipt of licenses, and ineligibility. Section 38 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2778), as amended, authorizes the President to control the export and import ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 2,2019 )
Laika's Window by Kurt Caswell
epub |eng | 2018-10-27 | Author:Kurt Caswell

FOUR ¤ Scouting the Atmosphere Let the dog, man’s helper and friend since prehistoric times, be sacrificed for science. But our dignity obligates us to do this only when necessary ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight October 28,2018 )
Apollo 8 by Jeffrey Kluger
epub |eng | | Author:Jeffrey Kluger

TEN December 21, 1968 Technically, Gene Kranz did not need to be present at Mission Control in Houston on the day Apollo 8 launched. The official manning list—the roster of ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight May 24,2017 )
The Long Space Age by Alexander MacDonald
epub |eng | 2017-04-30 | Author:Alexander MacDonald [MacDonald, Alexander]

Sources: Goddard, R., The Papers of Robert Goddard, vol. 1 (New York, 1970); see text of chapter 3 for specific source references. PWC-ratio equivalent value and GDP-ratio equivalent value calculations ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight May 3,2017 )
Spaceman by Mike Massimino
epub |eng | 2016-10-03 | Author:Mike Massimino

With my copilot, Snoopy, July 1969. Backyard adventures in space. Credit 1 Controlling the robot arm in my lab at MIT, with a 1980s hairstyle. Credit 2 With Mom and ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 21,2017 )
Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her by Rowland White
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2016-04-19 | Author:Rowland White [White, Rowland]

THIRTY-EIGHT Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, 1980 While NASA struggled to return American astronauts to space, the Air Force unmanned space program was thriving. The first year of the new ...
( Category: History February 24,2017 )
After Sputnik by Martin Collins
epub |eng | 2007-12-01 | Author:Martin Collins [Collins, Martin]

Apollo 12 Maurer Data Acquisition Camera 1969 “But essentially the camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.” —SUSAN SONTAG, On Photography, 1974 Astronaut ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight February 24,2017 )

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