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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
To touch the face of God To touch the face of God 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 … OL16654324W
Red moon rising Red moon rising 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… OL16952239W
Cold War Space Sleuths Cold War Space Sleuths 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… OL19835207W
Starman Starman 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… OL19948264W
Beyond Beyond 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… OL20000693W
Amazing stories of the space age Amazing stories of the space age Rod Pyle 341 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : 23 cm OL20047393W
Spaceflight Spaceflight Michael J. Neufeld A brief, non-technical history of spaceflight. OL20186775W
Ad Astra Ad Astra Dallas Campbell 256 pages : 20 cm OL25707260W
Historic journeys into space Historic journeys into space 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… OL27014678W
A fiery peace in a cold war A fiery peace in a cold war 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… OL3063441W
The U.S. Space Camp book of astronauts The U.S. Space Camp book of astronauts Anne Baird Biographies of America's astronauts with a history of the space program. OL3752223W
Space Space Patrick Moore 216 p. 29 cm OL47486W
ROCKET MAN ROCKET MAN 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 … OL4783491W