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Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 16
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xxxv, 371 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When the United States develops a new, state-of-the-art missile defense weapon, it threatens global stability and pits the world's superpowers in a contest for dominance in the space around Earth's orbit.
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Description
As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Season two rejoins the Hour Team in 1957 where we are introduced to new characters. With the advent of the space race and the threat of nuclear war looming, Britain grapples with an era of unprecedented scientific advancement, economic opportunity and cultural change.
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Apollo astronaut Gene Cernan stepped on the moon in December 1972 he left his footprints and his daughter's initials in the lunar dust. Now, over forty years later, is he ready to share his epic but deeply personal story of fulfillment, love and loss. Cernans burning ambition carried him from a quiet Chicago suburb to the spectacular and hazardous environment of space and ultimately, to the moon.
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On July 20, 1969, at 3:16 p.m., Commander Neil Armstrong brought the lunar module, Eagle , to a safe landing on the Moon. Millions of television viewers on Earth watched breathlessly as he then became the first man to set foot on the Moon. This amazing achievement was years, even centuries, in the making. The Moon and the heavens have intrigued mankind since ancient times. FOOTPRINTS ON THE MOON chronicles the spirit and determination of visionaries...
8) Saturn run
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Series
Description
The year is 2066. A Caltech intern inadvertently notices an anomaly from a space telescope -- something is approaching Saturn, and decelerating. Space objects don't decelerate. Spaceships do. A flurry of top-level government meetings produces the inescapable conclusion: Whatever built that ship is at least one hundred years ahead in hard and soft technology, and whoever can get their hands on it exclusively and bring it back will have an advantage...
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 414 pages ; 20 cm
Description
The Right Stuff is a 1979 book by Tom Wolfe about the pilots engaged in U.S. postwar research with experimental rocket-powered, high-speed aircraft as well as documenting the stories of the first Project Mercury astronauts selected for the NASA space program.
10) What is NASA?
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
107 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
"Find out all about NASA in this out-of-this-world addition to the What Was? series. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA, began in 1958. With its creation, the United States hoped to ensure it won the space race against the Soviet Union. Author Sarah Fabiny describes the origins of NASA, the launching of the Apollo program that landed the first human on the moon, and the many missions and discoveries that have taken...
Series
For all mankind volume 1
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 612 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In an alternative version of 1969, the Soviet Union beats the United States to the Moon, and the space race continues for decades with still grander challenges and goals.
Author
Publisher
Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
231 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Description
Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them from their white counterparts despite their groundbreaking successes.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xiii, 464 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimile, photographs ; 24 cm
Description
Shares the story of the remarkable NASA scientists and engineers who created America's space program and fulfilled President Kennedy's mandate to put a man on the Moon before 1970.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
512 pages cm
Description
A sixtieth-anniversary tribute to Russia's history-making first space mission documents the story of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the program's repurposing of a nuclear ballistic missile, and the Cold War challenges that shrouded the mission in secrecy.
15) Fight for space
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Examines reasons why the inspiration to pursue careers in science and technology ended in the 1970s as the space race came to a close.
16) Laika
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
205 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
This is the journey of Laika, the abandoned puppy destined to become Earth's first space traveler. With the blending of fact and fiction, this story intertwines three compelling lives. Along with Laika, there is Korolev, a driven engineer at the top of the Soviet space program and Yelena, the lab technician responsible for Laika's health and life.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[20016]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Throughout this nation's history, we have reached for the heavens and dreamed of touching the stars. Now Tom Hanks presents the dramatic story of the unforgettable Apollo missions.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018].
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
The most ambitious race humankind has ever undertaken was masterminded in the shadows by two engineers on opposite sides of the Cold War: Wernher von Braun, a former Nazi officer living in the US, and Sergei Korolev, a Russian rocket designer once jailed for crimes against his country. These two brilliant but controversial rocketeers never met, yet together they reshaped spaceflight and warfare. From Stalin?s brutal gulags and Hitler?s concentration...
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