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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
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...
Publisher
Gaiam Americas
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 187 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
See some of the most extraordinary missions in space exploration, to destinations such as Saturn's moon, Titan. Also, view the all-familiar walk on the moon in a whole new light.
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xviii, 374 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the greatest moments in human spaceflight by weaving together essential, fascinating documents from NASA's history. Beginning with rocket genius Wernher von Braun's vision for voyaging to Mars, and closing with Elon Musk's contemporary plan to get there, this volume traces major events like the founding of NASA, the first American astronauts in space, the moon landings, the Challenger disaster, the daring Hubble Telescope repairs, and more....
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
153 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Since NASA was established in 1958, it has landed rovers on distant planets and launched telescopes deep into space, all so that we can look back to the beginning of time. Through stunning images provided by NASA and fascinating sidebars and profiles of lesser know contributors to the NASA program, young space fans will learn how NASA started, how it faced challenges along the way, how much it has achieved, and how it will continue to move forward...
Author
Language
English
Description
As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and America's race to the moon. On May 25, 1961, JFK made an astonishing announcement: his goal of putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade. In this engrossing, fast-paced epic, Douglas Brinkley returns to the...
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Education
Language
English
Formats
Description
Space exploration may be NASA's mission, but its innovative leadership practices are founded on solid, down-to-earth methods anyone can apply, anywhere. Pyle has used the agency's unique methods for driving innovation to train leaders of Fortune 500 companies, and now he provides practical, proven lessons that will help you envision the future of your organization with clarity, meet every challenge with tenacity, and manage innovation with groundbreaking...
Author
Series
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses how in the 1950s, black women made critical contributions to NASA by performing calculations that made it possible for the nation's astronauts to fly into space and return safely to Earth.--
Edwards and Harris discuss the critical contributions black women made to NASA in the 1950s. They performed by hand the calculations that made it possible for the nation's astronauts to fly into space and return safely to Earth. Their efforts made it...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Sigma
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
NASA's history is a familiar story, but its prehistory is an important and rarely told tale. The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and the U.S. Air Force brought rocket technology into the world of manned flight: NACA test pilots flew cutting-edge aircraft in the thin upper atmosphere while Air Force pilots rode to the fringes of space in balloons to see how humans handled radiation at high altitude. At the end of World War II Wernher von...
Publisher
Discovery Communications
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 258 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Since the dawn of mankind, we have stared up at the lights in the sky and wondered.. Now join the heroic men and women who have dared the impossible on some of the greatest adventures ever undertaken - the quest to reach out beyond Earth.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 340 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the 1960s, locked in a heated race to launch the first human into space, the United States selected seven superstar test pilots and former military air fighters to NASA's astronaut class -- the Mercury 7. The men endured grueling training and constant media attention for the honor of becoming America's first space heroes. But a group of 13 women -- accomplished air racers, test pilots, and flight instructors -- were enduring those same astronaut...
Author
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Diversion Books edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 281 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Escaping Gravity is former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver's firsthand account of how a handful of revolutionaries overcame the political patronage and bureaucracy that threatened the space agency. The success of Elon Musk's SpaceX, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, and countless other commercial space efforts were preceded by decades of work by a group of people Garver calls "space pirates." Their quest to transform...
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (47 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
April 1970, the Apollo 13 mission is 178,000 miles from Earth, just two days away from a lunar landing, when an explosion rips the spacecraft apart and puts the crew's lives on the line. Only the leadership of Jim Lovell, the ingenuity of the NASA team in space and on the ground, and the robust systems of the spacecraft offer a chance for survival.
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