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2001by Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 1568494173 (1-56849-417-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: '2001'Book summary:When an enigmatic monolith is found buried on the moon, scientists are amazed to discover that it's at least 3 million years old. Even more amazing, after it's unearthed the artifact releases a powerful signal aimed at Saturn. What sort of alarm has been triggered? To find out, a manned spacecraft, the Discovery, is sent to investigate. Its crew is highly trained--the best--and they are assisted by a self-aware computer, the ultra-capable HAL 9000. But HAL's programming has been patterned after the human mind a little too well. He is capable of guilt, neurosis, even murder, and he controls every single one of Discovery's components. The crew must overthrow this digital psychotic if they hope to make their rendezvous with the entities that are responsible not just for the monolith, but maybe even for human civilization.
Clarke wrote this novel while Stanley Kubrick created the film, the two collaborating on both projects. The novel is much more detailed and intimate, and definitely easier to comprehend. Even though history has disproved its "predictions," it's still loaded with exciting and awe-inspiring science fiction. --Brooks Peck [via]
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- 2001 A Space Odyssey: ISBN 0451452739 (0-451-45273-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - 2001: ISBN 0451457994 (0-451-45799-4)
Softcover, Roc - 2001 Space Odyssey: ISBN 0582461367 (0-582-46136-7)
Softcover, Prentice Hall - 2001: ISBN 0451450639 (0-451-45063-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library - 2001 A Space Odyssey: ISBN 0090898303 (0-09-089830-3)
Hardcover, Hutchinson - 2001 : A Space Odyssey: ISBN 0451198492 (0-451-19849-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - 2001: ISBN 0453002692 (0-453-00269-2)
Hardcover, New Amer Library - 2001 A Space Odyssey: ISBN 0606160086 (0-606-16008-6)
Hardcover, Demco Media - 2001: ISBN 0816174865 (0-8161-7486-5)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co - 2001: ISBN 8401492742 (84-01-49274-2)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori - 2001: ISBN 1568494173 (1-56849-417-3)
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- 2001 A Space Odyssey: ISBN 0451452739 (0-451-45273-9)
Apollo 11by R. Conrad Stein, David J. CatrowISBN 0516046926 (0-516-04692-6)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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Apollo 13by Jim Lovell, Jeffrey KlugerISBN 0618056653 (0-618-05665-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Apollo 13'Book summary:On April 13, 1970, three American astronauts were on their way to the moon when a mysterious explosion rocked their ship, forcing them to abandon the main ship and spend four days in the tiny lunar module which was intended to support two men for two days. A harrowing story of danger, courage and brilliant off-the-cuff engineering solutions which resulted in a dramatic rescue. [via]
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Apollo 13by Jeffrey KlugerISBN 0618619585 (0-618-61958-5)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Apollo 13'Book summary:On April 13, 1970, three American astronauts were on their way to the moon when a mysterious explosion rocked their ship, forcing them to abandon the main ship and spend four days in the tiny lunar module which was intended to support two men for two days. A harrowing story of danger, courage and brilliant off-the-cuff engineering solutions which resulted in a dramatic rescue. [via]
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Carrying the Fireby Michael CollinsISBN 0553239481 (0-553-23948-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeysby Michael CollinsISBN 1885283148 (1-885283-14-8)
Hardcover, Adventure Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys'Book summary:NASA astronaut Michael Collins trained as an experimental test pilot before venturing into space as a vital member of the Gemini 10 and Apollo 11 missions. In Carrying the Fire, his account of his voyages into space and the years of training that led up to them, Collins reveals the human tensions, the physical realities, and the personal emotions surrounding the early years of the space race.
Collins provides readers with an insider's view of the space program and conveys the excitement and wonder of his journey to the moon. As skilled at writing as he is at piloting a spacecraft, Collins explains the clash of personalities at NASA and technical aspects of flight with clear, engaging prose, withholding nothing in his candid assessments of fellow astronauts Neil Armstrong, John Glenn, and Buzz Aldrin, and officials within NASA.
A fascinating memoir of mankind's greatest journey told in familiar, human terms, Carrying the Fire is by turns thrilling, humorous, and thought-provoking, a unique work by a remarkable man. [via]More editions of Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys:
- Carrying the Fire : An Astronaut's Journeys: ISBN 081541028X (0-8154-1028-X)
Softcover, Cooper Square Publishers, Incorporated - Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys: ISBN 0374119198 (0-374-11919-8)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux - Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys: ISBN 0374119171 (0-374-11917-1)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus and Giroux - Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys: ISBN 1885283148 (1-885283-14-8)
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The Case for Marsby Robert Zubrin, Richard WagnerISBN 0684827573 (0-684-82757-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Case for Mars'Book summary:"For our generation and many that will follow, Mars is the New World," writes Zubrin. This book went to press serendipitously, just as NASA was making its startling if heavily-qualified announcement that simple life may have once existed on the fourth rock from the sun. Zubrin doesn't spend an enormous amount of time arguing why Mars exploration is desirable -- we all want astronauts to go there, don't we? -- but rather devotes the bulk of this book explaining how it can happen on a sensible, bare-bones budget of $20-30 billion and a "travel light and live off the land" philosophy. [via]
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The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Mustby Richard Wagner, Robert ZubrinISBN 0684835509 (0-684-83550-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must'Book summary:Since the beginning of human history Mars has been an alluring dream-- the stuff of legends, gods, and mystery. The planet most like ours, it has still been thought impossible to reach, let alone explore and inhabit.
Now with the advent of a revolutionary new plan, all this has changed. Leading space exploration authority Robert Zubrin has crafted a daring new blueprint, Mars Direct, presented here with illustrations, photographs, and engaging anecdotes.
"The Case for Mars" is not a vision for the far future or one that will cost us impossible billions. It explains step-by-step how we can use present-day technology to send humans to Mars within ten years; actually produce fuel and oxygen on the planet's surface with Martian natural resources; how we can build bases and settlements; and how we can one day "terraform" Mars-- a process that can alter the atmosphere of planets and pave the way for sustainable life. [via]
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Chariots for Apollo: The Making of the Lunar Moduleby Joshua Stoff, Charles R. PellegrinoISBN 0689115598 (0-689-11559-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Chariots for Apollo: The Untold Story Behind the Race to the Moonby Charles R. Pellegrino, Joshua StoffISBN 0380802619 (0-380-80261-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chariots for Apollo: The Untold Story Behind the Race to the Moon'Book summary:It began in the depths of the Cold War, with two nations hurtling steel chariots into the atmosphere, each vowing to be the first to the moon. Then, in 1961, John F. Kennedy challenged America -- and from Long Island to Cape Canaveral, Houston to Huntsville, an army of engineers, scientists, bureaucrats and astronauts were swept up into the effort. Somehow, America would put a man on the moon's surface and bring him back safely before the decade was over. But how?
For eight frantic years the engineers would design and redesign, the scientists would argue, and brave men would trust their lives to virtually untested machinery. This dramatic chronicle of the race to the moon takes us behind the scenes of this awesome quest, into the minds of the people whose lives were devoted to it and changed by it, and through the missions themselves -- including the tragedy of Apollo 13. A riveting portrait of ingenuity, determination, and raw human courage, "Chariots for Apollo is the powerful story of how one society came together to reach its goal -- a quarter of a million miles away. [via]
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Cosmosby Carl SaganISBN 8432036269 (84-320-3626-9)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Dragonfly: An Epic Adventure of Survival in Outer Spaceby Bryan BurroughISBN 0060932694 (0-06-093269-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Dragonfly: Nasa and the Crisis Aboard Mirby Bryan BurroughISBN 0887307833 (0-88730-783-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Engines of Godby Jack McDevittISBN 0441002846 (0-441-00284-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilizationby Robert ZubrinISBN 1585420360 (1-58542-036-0)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization'Book summary:Humans are not native to the Earth. So posits astronautical engineer Bob Zubrin in the opening of Entering Space. We're native to just a small sliver of it, the spot where our species originated in tropical Kenya. We set out from that paradise about 50,000 years ago, north into "the teeth of the Ice Age," and all the ground we've gained since then has been thanks to our tenacity and our tools.
Zubrin reasons that it's time we cover a little more ground. Written with a boyish enthusiasm and formidable techie know-how, Entering Space urges us to realize "the feasibility, the necessity, and the promise" of becoming a space-faring civilization, of colonizing our own solar system and beyond. And Zubrin, author of the influential and widely acclaimed The Case for Mars, knows his stuff--NASA adapted his plans for near-term human exploration of Mars, and Carl Sagan gave the author no less credit: "Bob Zubrin really, nearly alone, changed our thinking on this issue." Entering Space plots the second and third phases of humanity's course--now that we've mastered our own planet, Zubrin says we must first look to settling our solar system (beginning with Mars) and then to the galaxy beyond.
With its practicable visions of using "iceteroids" to terraform Mars and harnessing the power of the outlying gas giants ("the solar system's Persian Gulf"), Entering Space succeeds at making the fantastic seem attainable, the stuff of science fiction, science fact. --Paul Hughes [via]
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A Fire on the Moonby Norman MailerISBN 0297179527 (0-297-17952-7)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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First on the Moon. a Voyage With Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins [And] Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.,by Neil ArmstrongISBN 0316051608 (0-316-05160-8)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Full Moonby Andrew Chaikin, Michael LightISBN 0375406344 (0-375-40634-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Full Moon'Book summary:In Full Moon, one of the best science photography books ever published, Michael Light presents a voyage in images to the Moon and back. Light took NASA's master negatives of photos taken by Apollo astronauts and scanned them electronically. The resulting pictures are so vivid they seem more clear than real life. Light orders the photos sequentially, selecting the most arresting images from each mission, to create a truly cinematic experience. In the first section, depicting blastoff, you can almost feel the violent shaking of the rocket as it strains to escape Earth's gravity. Then you see the quiet stillness of weightlessness, the astronauts' view down at a perfectly silent Earth, boundless oceans contrasting with bright white clouds. A spacewalk adds vertigo--the astronaut looks fragile and very alone as he floats outside his capsule far above his home planet. Then comes the waiting, as the long voyage toward the Moon continues.
As you watch the cratered surface get closer and closer, you have no sense of scale until you see the miniscule silver and gold lander dropping gently to land on the Moon. Leaving the cluttered interior of the capsule in bulky, awkward suits, the astronauts bring delicate tracings of color--gold on the lander; red, white, and blue on the spacesuits' flag patches--to this black-and-white world. Five huge gatefolds in this section give you indescribable views of the intricately scarred surface of the Moon.
You return to space for the reuniting of the lander and capsule, and a repetition of the tedious journey back home. Finally, you watch a chaotic splashdown in the riot of colors that is Earth.
A nice section in the back of the book explains each photo with a detailed caption, and an essay by author Andrew Chaikin (A Man on the Moon) adds more written context to this stunning visual experience. The book is printed on very high-quality paper, with matte black frames for the photos and a gorgeous, wordless cover. Every space fan should have a copy. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Full Moonby Michael LightISBN 0375414940 (0-375-41494-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Full Moon'Book summary:The most thrilling of all journeys--the missions of the Apollo astronauts to the surface of the Moon and back--yielded 32,000 extraordinarily beautiful photographs, the record of a unique human achievement. Until recently, only a handful of these photographs had been released for publication; but now, for the first time, NASA has allowed a selection of the master negatives and transparencies to be scanned electronically, rendering the sharpest images of space that we have ever seen. Michael Light has woven 129 of these stunningly clear images into a single composite voyage, a narrative of breathtaking immediacy and authenticity that begins with the launch and is followed by a walk in space, an orbit of the Moon, a lunar landing and exploration, and a return to Earth with an orbit and splashdown.
Graced by five 45-inch-wide gatefolds that display the lunar landscape, from above the surface and at eye level, in unprecedented detail and clarity, Full Moon conveys on each page the excitement, disorientation, and awe that the astronauts themselves felt as they were shot into space and then as they explored an alien landscape and looked back at their home planet from hundreds of thousands of miles away.
Published on the thirtieth anniversary of Apollo 11--the first landing on the Moon--this remarkable and mesmerizing volume is, like the voyages it commemorates and re-creates, an experience both intimate and monumental. [via]More editions of Full Moon:
Gemini : Steps to the Moonby David ShaylerISBN 1852334053 (1-85233-405-3)
Softcover, Springer
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Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8by Robert ZimmermanISBN 1568581181 (1-56858-118-1)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Ageby Walter A. McDougallISBN 159740165X (1-59740-165-X)
Hardcover, Acls History E-Book Project
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heavens And the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age'Book summary:This highly acclaimed study approaches the space race as a problem in comparative public policy. Drawing on published literature, archival sources in both the United States and Europe, interviews with many of the key participants, and important declassified material, such as the National Security Council's first policy paper on space, McDougall examines U.S., European, and Soviet space programs and their politics. Opening with a short account of Nikolai Kibalchich, a late nineteenth-century Russian rocketry theoretician, McDougall argues that the Soviet Union made its way into space first because it was the world's first "technocracy"which he defines as "the institutionalization of technological change for state purpose." He also explores the growth of a political economy of technology in both the Soviet Union and the United States.
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- The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age: ISBN 0801857481 (0-8018-5748-1)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr - The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age: ISBN 0465028888 (0-465-02888-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group - The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age: ISBN 046502887X (0-465-02887-X)
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The History of Developing the National Space Transportation System: The Beginning through STS-50by Dennis R. JenkinsISBN 0963397400 (0-9633974-0-0)
Softcover, Broadfield Pub
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History of Nasa: America's Voyage to the Stars/06983by E. John De WaardISBN 0671069837 (0-671-06983-7)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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A House in Spaceby Henry S.F. CooperISBN 0030166861 (0-03-016686-1)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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Life in Spaceby Time LifeISBN 0316850632 (0-316-85063-2)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life in Space'Book summary:Richard Gordon. Apollo astronaut. Signed Book. Free tracking. [via]
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Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13by Jim Lovell, Kluger JeffreyISBN 0395670292 (0-395-67029-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13'Book summary:In April 1970, during the glory days of the Apollo space program, NASA sent Navy Captain Jim Lovell and two other astronauts on America's fifth mission to the moon. Only fifty-five hours into the flight of Apollo 13, disaster struck: a mysterious explosion rocked the ship, and soon its oxygen and power began draining away. Commander Lovell and his crew watched in alarm as the cockpit grew darker, the air grew thinner, and the instruments winked out one by one. The full story of the moon shot that almost ended in catastrophe has never been told, but now Lovell and coauthor Jeffrey Kluger bring it to vivd life. What begins as a smooth flight is transformed into a hair-raising voyage from the moment Lovell calls out, "Houston, we've got a problem." Minutes after the explosion, the astronauts are forced to abandon the main ship for the lunar module, a tiny craft designed to keep two men alive for just two days. But there are three men aboard, and they are four days from home. As the hours tick away, the narrative shifts from the crippled spacecraft to Mission Control, from engineers searching desperately for solutions to Lovell's wife and children praying for his safe return. The entire nation watches as one crisis after another is met and overcome. By the time the ship splashes down in the Pacific, we understand why the heroic effort to rescue Lovell and his crew is considered by many to be NASA's finest hour. This riveting book puts the reader right in the spacecraft during one of the worst disasters in the history of space exploration. Written with all the color and drama of the best fiction, Lost Moon is the true story of a thrilling adventure and an astonishing triumph over nearly impossible odds. It was a major Oscar(R)-nominated motion picture directed by Ron Howard and starred Tom Hanks and Kevin Bacon. [via]
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A Man on the Moonby Andrew ChaikinISBN 0140272011 (0-14-027201-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Man on the Moon'Book summary:A decade in the making, this book is based on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with each of the twenty-four moon voyagers, as well as those who contributed their brain power, training and teamwork on Earth. In his preface Chaikin writes, "We touched the face of another world and became a people without limits."
What follows are thrilling accounts of such remarkable experiences as the rush of a liftoff, the heart-stopping touchdown on the moon, the final hurdle of re-entry, competition for a seat on a moon flight, the tragic spacecraft fire, and the search for clues to the origin of the solar system on the slopes of lunar mountains.
"I've been there. Chaikin took me back."--Gene Cernan, Apollo 17 astronaut [via]More editions of A Man on the Moon:
- A Man on the Moon: ISBN 0140097066 (0-14-009706-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA - A Man on the Moon: ISBN 0783556756 (0-7835-5675-6)
Hardcover, Warner Books Inc - A Man on the Moon: ISBN 0783556772 (0-7835-5677-2)
Hardcover, Warner Books Inc - A Man on the Moon: ISBN 0783556799 (0-7835-5679-9)
Hardcover, Warner Books Inc - A Man on the Moon: ISBN 0140272011 (0-14-027201-1)
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A Man on the Moon Pt. 1: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronautsby Andrew ChaikinISBN 0670814466 (0-670-81446-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Men from Earthby Malcolm McConnell, Buzz AldrinISBN 0553053744 (0-553-05374-4)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Stepsby Marshall T. SavageISBN 0316771635 (0-316-77163-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy-In 8 Easy Stepsby Marshall T. Savage, Keith SpangleISBN 0963391496 (0-9633914-9-6)
Softcover, Empyrean Pub
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Moon Shotby Alan Shepard, Deke SlaytonISBN 1570361673 (1-57036-167-3)
Softcover, Turner Pub
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Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moonby Shepard, Alan B., Jr., Deke SlaytonISBN 1878685546 (1-878685-54-6)
Hardcover, Turner Publishing, Incorporated
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Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earthby Andrew SmithISBN 0007155425 (0-00-715542-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth'Book summary:The Apollo lunar missions of the 1960s and 1970s have been called the last optimistic acts of the twentieth century. Twelve astronauts made this greatest of all journeys and were indelibly marked by it, for better or for worse. Journalist Andrew Smith tracks down the nine surviving members of this elite group to find their answers to the question "Where do you go after you've been to the Moon?"
A thrilling blend of history, reportage, and memoir, Moondust rekindles the hopeful excitement of an incandescent hour in America's past and captures the bittersweet heroism of those who risked everything to hurl themselves out of the known world -- and who were never again quite able to accept its familiar bounds.
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Murmurs of Earthby Carl SaganISBN 0345283961 (0-345-28396-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Nasa and the Exploration of Space: With Works from the Nasa Art Collectionby Roger Launius, Bertram Ulrich, Mary KalamarasISBN 1556706960 (1-55670-696-0)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Of a Fire on the Moonby Norman MailerISBN 0394620194 (0-394-62019-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Pale Blue Dotby Carl SaganISBN 0345376595 (0-345-37659-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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--The Washington Post Book World (front page review)
In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time.
Future generations will look back on our epoch as the time when the human race finally broke into a radically new frontier--space. In Pale Blue Dot Sagan traces the spellbinding history of our launch into the cosmos and assesses the future that looms before us as we move out into our own solar system and on to distant galaxies beyond. The exploration and eventual settlement of other worlds is neither a fantasy nor luxury, insists Sagan, but rather a necessary condition for the survival of the human race.
"TAKES READERS FAR BEYOND Cosmos . . . Sagan sees humanity's future in the stars."
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Pale Blue Dot : A Vision of the Human Future in Spaceby Carl SaganISBN 0679764860 (0-679-76486-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceshipby George B. DysonISBN 0805059857 (0-8050-5985-7)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship'Book summary:Like cheap, shiny space suits and bug-eyed rubber monsters, nuclear-powered spaceships today seem like little more than laughably naïve 1950s science fiction tropes. It might have been otherwise--and still could be. George Dyson, son of supergenius physicist Freeman Dyson, wrote Project Orion to share some of his father's amazing research with the world. Much had been kept secret for years, but Dyson's unique insider status permits great depth and breadth on this important tale. Conceived in the wake of Sputnik, Project Orion was a true vision of '50s engineering: a huge 40-person ship powered by hundreds of tiny atomic bombs, capable of much greater lift and efficiency than chemically driven rockets. Struggles between NASA, the military, Congress, and other parties doomed Orion, but Dyson has gathered hundreds of documents and interviewed most of the researchers and engineers who worked together, trying to reach "Saturn by 1970." His knack for storytelling makes the book a quick, delightful read; even the staunchest anti-nuke activist has to admit that lighting a cigarette off a parabolic mirror facing a bomb test is pretty cool. By the end of the 20th century, technology had caught up with the vision of Orion--it's considered one of our best bets for long-distance space transit. Whether or not that could ever happen politically, Project Orion is a compelling exploration of scientific imagination. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Promise of Spaceby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 0425075656 (0-425-07565-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Right Stuffby Tom WolfeISBN 1579124585 (1-57912-458-5)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Right Stuff'Book summary:Tom Wolfe began The Right Stuff at a time when it was unfashionable to contemplate American heroism. Nixon had left the White House in disgrace, the nation was reeling from the catastrophe of Vietnam, and in 1979--the year the book appeared--Americans were being held hostage by Iranian militants. Yet it was exactly the anachronistic courage of his subjects that captivated Wolfe. In his foreword, he notes that as late as 1970, almost one in four career Navy pilots died in accidents. "The Right Stuff," he explains, "became a story of why men were willing--willing?--delighted!--to take on such odds in this, an era literary people had long since characterized as the age of the anti-hero."
Wolfe's roots in New Journalism were intertwined with the nonfiction novel that Truman Capote had pioneered with In Cold Blood. As Capote did, Wolfe tells his story from a limited omniscient perspective, dropping into the lives of his "characters" as each in turn becomes a major player in the space program. After an opening chapter on the terror of being a test pilot's wife, the story cuts back to the late 1940s, when Americans were first attempting to break the sound barrier. Test pilots, we discover, are people who live fast lives with dangerous machines, not all of them airborne.
Wolfe traces Alan Shepard's suborbital flight and Gus Grissom's embarrassing panic on the high seas (making the controversial claim that Grissom flooded his Liberty capsule by blowing the escape hatch too soon). The author also produces an admiring portrait of John Glenn's apple-pie heroism and selfless dedication. By the time Wolfe concludes with a return to Yeager and his late-career exploits, the narrative's epic proportions and literary merits are secure. Certainly The Right Stuff is the best, the funniest, and the most vivid book ever written about America's manned space program. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux - The Right Stuff: ISBN 0553275569 (0-553-27556-9)
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Smithsonian Guide : Spaceflightby Valerie Neal, Cathleen S. Lewis, Frank H. WinterISBN 002860007X (0-02-860007-X)
Softcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Smithsonian Guide : Spaceflight'Book summary:Seven thematic sections detail landmark events, technological advances, and the drama of the men, women, and machines that took us into space. Here are rocket launch vehicles and space stations, moon explorations and military satellites, the pioneering flights of Gagarin and Glenn, and more. Fact boxes and diagrams explain such concepts as attitude control, while two-page sections feature subjects from "walking" in space to Voyager's grand tour. Spaceflight includes more than 350 illustrations, photographs, and other artworks. Events that shaped the course of spaceflight are presented in an 8-page foldout illustrated timeline, an instant reference to the entire subject. The 40-page photo glossary offers concise explanations of technical and scientific terms, plus biographies of major figures. [via]
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The Space Shuttle Operator's Manualby Kerry M. Joels, Gregory P. Kennedy, David LarkinISBN 0345341813 (0-345-34181-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Space Shuttle Operators Manualby Gregory P. Kennedy, David Larkin, Kerry Mark JoelsISBN 0345303210 (0-345-30321-0)
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Space Shuttle: The History of Developing the National Space Transportation Systemby Dennis R. JenkinsISBN 0963397443 (0-9633974-4-3)
Hardcover, Motorbooks Intl
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Space Shuttle: The History of the National Space Transportation System The First 100 Missionsby Dennis R. JenkinsISBN 0963397451 (0-9633974-5-1)
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Spaceflight: A Smithsonian Guideby Valerie Neal, Cathleen S. Lewis, Frank H. WinterISBN 0028600401 (0-02-860040-1)
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The Sparrowby Mary Doria RussellISBN 0449912558 (0-449-91255-8)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sparrow'Book summary:In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing from a planet which will come to be known as Rakhat. While United Nations diplomats endlessly debate a possible first contact mission, the Society of Jesus quietly organizes an eight-person scientific expedition of its own. What the Jesuits find is a world so beyond comprehension that it will lead them to question the meaning of being "human." When the lone survivor of the expedition, Emilio Sandoz, returns to Earth in 2059, he will try to explain what went wrong... Words like "provocative" and "compelling" will come to mind as you read this shocking novel about first contact with a race that creates music akin to both poetry and prayer. [via]
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This New Oceanby William E. BurrowsISBN 0375754857 (0-375-75485-7)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This New Ocean'Book summary:More comprehensive than The Right Stuff, more critical than Apollo 13, This New Ocean is a near-perfect history of the men (and occasional women) who have "slipped the surly bonds of Earth." Eminent science journalist and space expert William E. Burrows covers just about everyone in history--from Daedalus to John Glenn--who ever designed or flew a rocket, trying to "ride the arrow" to the moon and beyond. It's a trail of testosterone from start to finish, but it makes for an engrossing read. One of Burrows's most interesting points is that without the cold war we never would have made it into space. He writes, "...the rocket would forever serve two masters at the same time, or rather a single master with two dispositions: one for war and one for peace." Werner von Braun, Robert Goddard, and other rocketry pioneers may indeed have wanted to explore space, but they knew the only way to get there was on the military's back.
Burrows extensively researched his subject, and he seems to want to include a little bit of everything; too much detail bogs down the narrative in places. Then again, he is no apologist for the space programs of the United States and the former U.S.S.R., and to tell their complete stories requires laying a great deal of political and scientific groundwork. When it comes to the great, memorable moments in space history, Burrows really shines. In telling the stories of Sputnik's first orbit, Neil Armstrong's moonwalk, Challenger's fiery death, and Sojourner's Martian road trip, he captures both the gee-whiz technological accomplishment and the very human emotions of the men and women involved. --Therese Littleton [via]
Venusby Ben BovaISBN 0812579402 (0-8125-7940-2)
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2001 Una Odisea Espacial / 2001. A Space Odysseyby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 8497599292 (84-9759-929-2)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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› Find signed collectible books: '2001 Una Odisea Espacial / 2001. A Space Odyssey'Book summary:Una expedición a los confines del universo y a los del alma, en la que pasado, presente y futuro se amalgaman en un continuo enigmático. ¿Qué esencia última nos rige? ¿Qué lugar ocupa el hombre en el complejo entramado del infinito? ¿Qué es el tiempo, la vida, la muerte? Una grandiosa novela de dimensiones épicas cuyo amplio abanico de interpretaciones ofrece una visión totalizadora. Arthur C.Clarke colaboró estrechamente con Stanley Kubrick en la producción de la célebre película homónima. [via]
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Objetivo, La Luna/ Objective, the Moonby HergeISBN 2203751495 (2-203-75149-5)
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Una Odisea Espacial 2001, Usa/2001: A Space Odysseyby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 8434580926 (84-345-8092-6)
Softcover, Editorial Bruno
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Les Aventures De Tintin - Objectif Luneby HergeISBN 2203001151 (2-203-00115-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Aventures De Tintin - Objectif Lune'Book summary:62 pages de bandes dessinées. Coiffes usées. Plats auréolés. [via]
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On a Marche sur la Luneby HergéISBN 220300116X (2-203-00116-X)
Softcover, Editions de Minuit
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On a Marche sur la Lune'Book summary:Le 10 janvier 1929, un jeune reporter fait son apparition dans Le Petit Vingtième, le supplément pour enfants du quotidien belge Le XXe siècle. Son nom ? Tintin. Accompagné de Milou, un jeune chien blanc, il part pour la "Russie soviétique". Son créateur, un certain Georges Remi, signe Hergé, pseudonyme inspiré par ses initiales. Après ce premier voyage en Russie, qui donne naissance à l'album Tintin chez les Soviets, le jeune reporter s'envole pour l'Afrique (Tintin au Congo), puis pour l'Amérique. Mais c'est Le Lotus bleu, publié dans Le Petit Vingtième dès août 1934, qui marque un tournant important dans l'Suvre d'Hergé. Celui-ci, après avoir rencontré Tchang Tchong-Jen, jeune étudiant chinois qui lui a ouvert les yeux sur l'Asie, va désormais se soucier de rigueur documentaire. Il va aussi s'efforcer de faire passer dans ses histoires un message d'humanisme et de tolérance. Le succès de son reporter à la houppe ne va cesser de grandir. Hergé lui fait parcourir le monde. Il teinte ses aventures d'onirisme (L'Étoile mystérieuse), flirte avec le surnaturel (Les Sept Boules de cristal), l'expédie même sur la lune.
Il donne à Tintin des compagnons d'aventure qui vont prendre une place essentielle : les Dupont/d (Les Cigares du pharaon), le capitaine Haddock (Le Crabe aux pinces d'or), le professeur Tournesol (Le Secret de la Licorne) ou Bianca Castafiore (Le Sceptre d'Ottokar). Hergé n'hésite pas à jouer avec ses personnages : Les Bijoux de la Castafiore montrent un Tintin dépassé par les événements, loin de son image traditionnelle. Jusqu'à l'Suvre ultime, laissée inachevée par la mort d'Hergé en mars 1983 : Tintin et l'alph-art, dont la dernière case montre le héros en bien fâcheuse posture...
Tintin a su séduire les jeunes comme les adultes. Grâce à la lisibilité de la narration et du dessin, la justesse des dialogues, le sens du rebondissement et de l'intrigue... Mais aussi le souffle de l'aventure, de l'amitié et de la générosité. Et, en plus, ce quelque chose d'indéfinissable qu'Hergé lui-même ne savait expliquer... Une bande dessinée universelle. --Gilbert Jacques [via]
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