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Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A brilliant new account of the Voyager space program-its history, scientific impact, and cultural legacy
Launched in 1977, the two unmanned Voyager spacecraft have completed their Grand Tour to the four outer planets, and they are now on course to become the first man-made objects to exit our solar system. To many, this remarkable achievement is the culmination of a golden age of American planetary exploration, begun in the wake of the...
Launched in 1977, the two unmanned Voyager spacecraft have completed their Grand Tour to the four outer planets, and they are now on course to become the first man-made objects to exit our solar system. To many, this remarkable achievement is the culmination of a golden age of American planetary exploration, begun in the wake of the...
Author
Language
English
Description
On May 20, 1969, the thirty-story-high Apollo 11-Saturn V spaceship was trundled from Cape Kennedy’s Vehicle Assembly Building to Pad 39A for its final inspection and countdown. The nearly 1 million spectators who began gathering at Cape Kennedy for launch on July 16, 1969, were kept at least 3.5 miles away from the pad because, in an explosion, hundred-pound chunks of shrapnel would be hurled in a 3-mile radius. Finally, at 9:32 a.m., Neil...
7) Space
Author
Series
Publisher
NewForest Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
10) NASA
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the function of NASA and discusses its various space exploration programs and achievements.
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents milestones in the development of flight from the collection of the National Air and Space Museum and looks at early airplanes, war planes, space travel, and the future of flight.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Dye, NASA's longest-serving Flight Director, examines the split-second decisions that the directors and astronauts were forced to make in a field where mistakes are unthinkable, and where errors led to the loss of national resources-- and more importantly, one's crew. From the powerful fiery ascent to the majesty of on-orbit operations to the high-speed and critical re-entry and landing of a hundred-ton glider, he provides a look inside the Space...
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books (U.S.)
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
248 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Contains over 150 illustrated photographs that describe the history of the Kennedy Space Center and its space program, with information on the earliest development of rockets in the United States and Germany, the missile race and U.S.-Soviet rivalry, and the shuttle programs.
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
The major milestones in flight history illustrated from the collections of the National Air and Space Museum includes the development of flight and diagrams explaining flight science and technology.
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