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To touch the face of God
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Kendrick Oliver |
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth..." In 1968 the world watched as Earth rose over the moonscape, televised from the orbiting Apollo 8 mission capsule. Radioing back to Houston … |
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Red moon rising
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Matthew Brzezinski |
The behind-the-scenes story of the fierce battles on earth that launched the superpowers into space. Khrushchev was frustrated at America's U-2 spy plane, which flew too high to be shot down. But Rus… |
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Cold War Space Sleuths
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Dominic Phelan |
<p><i>Cold War Space Sleuths</i> reads like a Cold War espionage novel, but the reality of the story about the dedicated amateur observers bent on finding out about Soviet spaceflight during the Cold… |
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Starman
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Jamie Doran |
On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first person to venture into space, gaining worldwide fame in a quick 108-minute journey. Starman tells for the first time Gagarin's personal odyssey from p… |
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Beyond
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Chris Impey |
A report on humanity's imminent potential for living in space covers topics ranging from China's 2020 space station and the colonization of Mars to space-elevator innovations and the mapping of Earth… |
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Amazing stories of the space age
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Rod Pyle |
341 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : 23 cm |
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Spaceflight
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Michael J. Neufeld |
A brief, non-technical history of spaceflight. |
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Ad Astra
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Dallas Campbell |
256 pages : 20 cm |
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Historic journeys into space
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Thomas Reilly,Lynn Homan |
The visual history of one of man's greatest challenge's, the exploration of space, is presented here through the use of photographs taken by amateurs, astronauts and on-board cameras. These images, d… |
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A fiery peace in a cold war
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Neil Sheehan |
From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize--winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that cha… |
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The U.S. Space Camp book of astronauts
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Anne Baird |
Biographies of America's astronauts with a history of the space program. |
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Space
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Patrick Moore |
216 p. 29 cm |
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ROCKET MAN
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David A. Clary |
Working in isolation in the decades before World War II, Robert Goddard pioneered the technical developments that made rocket propulsion feasible—but was ridiculed in the press for his “loony” ideas … |
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