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Into The Void - Adventures Of The Spacewalkers

by John Youskauskas e Melvin Croft

~~40,55€~~ 36,50€ 10% OFF

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 Into the Void focuses on the unique story of those who have ventured outside the spacecraft into the unforgiving vacuum of space, including the difficulty and danger, the adaptation required, and the euphoria of seeing space separated by only a thin faceplate.
Star Bound - A Beginner'S Guide To The American Space Program, From Goddard'S Rockets To Goldilocks Planets And Everything In Between

by Bruce Mccandless e Emily Carney

~~29,80€~~ 26,82€ 10% OFF

 Star Bound is a satelliteâ€™s-eye view of the history of American space exploration, for readers interested in the drama, dreams, and daring that produced the nationâ€™s first ventures into the cosmos.
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Star Bound - A Beginner'S Guide To The American Space Program, From Goddard'S Rockets To Goldilocks Planets And Everything In Between

by Bruce Mccandless e Emily Carney

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 Star Bound is a satelliteâ€™s-eye view of the history of American space exploration, for readers interested in the drama, dreams, and daring that produced the nationâ€™s first ventures into the cosmos.
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Beyond Blue Skies - The Rocket Plane Programs That Led To The Space Age

by Chris Petty

30,90€ + 10% CARD

 Beyond Blue Skies examines the thirty-year period after World War II during which aviation experienced an unprecedented era of progress that led the United States to the boundaries of outer space.
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Long Voyage To The Moon - The Life Of Naval Aviator And Apollo 17 Astronaut Ron Evans

by Geoffrey Bowman

30,90€ + 10% CARD

 Biography of Apollo 17 astronaut Ron Evans (1933â€"1990).
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Footprints In The Dust - The Epic Voyages Of Apollo, 1969-1975

30,90€ + 10% CARD

 Following the fortieth anniversary of Apollo 11, Footprints in the Dust offers a thorough, engrossing, and multifaceted account of the Apollo missions. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with key figures in the space program, the authors convey the human drama and chart the technological marvels that went into the Apollo missions.
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Ambassadors From Earth - Pioneering Explorations With Unmanned Spacecraft

by Jay Gallentine

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 Ambassadors from Earth reminds us that our first mad scrambles to reach orbit, the moon, and the planets were littered with enough histrionics and cliff-hanging turmoil to rival the most far-out sci-fi film. But it all really happened!Drawing on original interviews with key players and bolstered by previously unpublished photographs, journal excerpts, and primary source documents, Jay Gallentine delivers a quirky and unforgettable look at the lives and legacy of the people who conceived, built, and guided our first unmanned spacecraft and planetary probes. From the Sputnik and Explorer satellites of the late 1950s, to the thrilling Voyager "Grand Tour" of the '70s and '80s, they yielded some of the most celebrated successes and spectacular failures of the space age.Confessed one participant, "We were making it up as we went along."Gallentine fearlessly clambers to the bottom of a surprisingly bitter controversy over who first developed the technique of using gravity to steer a spacecraft. Also of special note are his candid discussions with James Van Allen, the discoverer of the rings of planetary radiation that now bear his name.
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Oscar Charleston - The Life And Legend Of Baseball'S Greatest Forgotten Player

by Jeremy Beer

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 The biography of Oscar Charleston, a Negro Leagues legend and one of baseballâ€™s greatest and most unjustifiably overlooked players.
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Over Seas Of Memory - A Novel

by Michaël Ferrier

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 Based loosely on the author's life, this novel recounts the narrator's journey following the footsteps of his Mauritius-born grandfather, Maxime, who abruptly boarded a boat bound for Madagascar in 1922 and never returned. MichaÃ«l Ferrier tells a tale of discovery as well as the elusive, colorful story of Maxime's life.
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The Ultimate Engineer - The Remarkable Life Of Nasa'S Visionary Leader George M. Low

by Richard Jurek

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 The Ultimate Engineer portrays NASA pioneer George M. Lowâ€™s remarkable life, accomplishments, and legacy as a key visionary and leader.
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Bold They Rise - The Space Shuttle Early Years, 1972-1986

by David Hitt e Heather R. Smith

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 Bold They Rise recounts the golden age of the Space Shuttle-from its first to its twenty-fifth launch, ending with the tragic flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
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Light Of Earth - Reflections On A Life In Space

by Al Worden e Francis French

25,39€ + 10% CARD

 Coauthored with spaceflight historian Francis French, The Light of Earth is Al Wordenâ€™s wide-ranging look at the greatest-ever scientific undertaking, in which he was privileged to be a leading participant.
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Red Letters - Two Fervent Liverpool Fc Supporters Correspond Through The Epic Season That Wouldn'T End

by Michael Maccambridge e Neil Atkinson

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 Red Letters is the story of Liverpool FCâ€™s first title-winning season in thirty years, game by game, in real time, with hopes and expectations tested and altered as the season progressesâ€"through insights from two avid Liverpool supporters.
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The Sisterhood - The 99ers And The Rise Of U.S. Women'S Soccer

by Rob Goldman

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 The Sisterhood is the story of the first and second generations of national team players, known as the 99ers, who were the driving force behind the rise of U.S. womenâ€™s soccer and who built the foundation for the teamâ€™s enduring success.
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Realizing Tomorrow - The Path To Private Spaceflight

by Chris Dubbs e Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom

20,96€ + 10% CARD

 Nearly forty years passed between the Apollo moon landings, the grandest accomplishment of a government-run space programme, and the Ansari X PRIZE - winning flights of SpaceShipOne, the greatest achievement of a private space programme. Now, as we hover on the threshold of commercial spaceflight, Chris Dubbs and Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom look back at how we got to this point.
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Wheels Stop - The Tragedies And Triumphs Of The Space Shuttle Program, 1986-2011

by Rick Houston

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 The human story of the Space Shuttle program fromÂ the aftermath of the Challenger accident and ending with the final flight in 2011.
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To A Distant Day - The Rocket Pioneers

by Chris Gainor

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 Although the dream of flying is as old as the human imagination, the notion of rocketing into space may have originated with Chinese gunpowder experiments during the Middle Ages. Rockets as both weapons and entertainment are examined in this engaging history of how human beings acquired the ability to catapult themselves into space.
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X-15 Rocket Plane - Flying The First Wings Into Space

by Michelle Evans

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 With the Soviet Unions launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold War soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into space. The X-15 Rocket Plane tells the enthralling yet little-known story of the hypersonic X-15, the winged rocket ship that met this challenge and opened the way into human-controlled spaceflight. Drawing on interviews with those who were there, Michelle Evans captures the drama and excitement of, yes, rocket science: how to handle the heat generated at speeds up to Mach 7, how to make a rocket propulsion system that could throttle, and how to safely reenter the atmosphere from space and make a precision landing. This book puts a human face on the feats of science and engineering that went into the X-15 program, many of them critical to the development of the Space Shuttle. And, finally, it introduces us to the largely unsung pilots of the X-15. By the time of the Apollo 11 moon landing, thirty-one American astronauts had flown into space-eight of them astronaut-pilots of the X-15. The X-15 Rocket Plane restores these pioneers, and the others who made it happen, to their rightful place in the history of spaceflight.
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Ultimate Engineer - The Remarkable Life Of Nasa'S Visionary Leader George M. Low

by Richard Jurek

25,39€ + 10% CARD

 The Ultimate Engineer portrays NASA pioneer George M. Lowâ€™s remarkable life, accomplishments, and legacy as a key visionary and leader.
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Ultimate Engineer - The Remarkable Life Of Nasa'S Visionary Leader George M. Low

by Richard Jurek

25,39€ + 10% CARD

 The Ultimate Engineer portrays NASA pioneer George M. Lowâ€™s remarkable life, accomplishments, and legacy as a key visionary and leader.
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Shattered Dreams - The Lost And Canceled Space Missions

by Colin Burgess

27,59€ + 10% CARD

 Delves into the personal stories and recollections of men and women who were in line to fly a specific or future space mission but lost that opportunity due to personal reasons, mission cancellations, or even tragedies. While some of the subjects are familiar names in spaceflight history, the accounts of others are told here for the first time.
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Shattered Dreams - The Lost And Canceled Space Missions

by Colin Burgess

27,59€ + 10% CARD

 Delves into the personal stories and recollections of men and women who were in line to fly a specific or future space mission but lost that opportunity due to personal reasons, mission cancellations, or even tragedies. While some of the subjects are familiar names in spaceflight history, the accounts of others are told here for the first time.
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Come Fly With Us - Nasa'S Payload Specialist Program

by John Youskauskas e Melvin Croft

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 Tells the story of an elite group of space travellers who flew as members of many space shuttle crews from pre-Challenger days to Columbia in 2003. Not part of the regular NASA astronaut corps, these professionals known as ""payload specialists"" came from a wide variety of backgrounds and were chosen for a wide variety of scientific, political, and national security reasons.
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Outposts On The Frontier - A Fifty-Year History Of Space Stations

by Jay Chladek

41,96€ + 10% CARD

 A vast trove of stories filled with excitement, danger, humor, sadness, failure, and success, Outposts on the Frontier reveals how the Soviets and the Americans combined strengths to build space stations over the past fifty years. At the heart of these scientific advances are people of both greatness and modesty.
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