Pioneering Space
Author: James E. Oberg
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780070480391
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Author: James E. Oberg
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780070480391
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Author: Tam O'Shaughnessy
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 1626725918
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Years before millions of Americans tuned in to watch her historic space flight aboard the Challenger in 1983, Sally Ride stayed up late to watch Neil Armstrong become the first person to walk on the moon. The next morning, she woke up to win her first round singles match at a national junior tennis tournament. Sally Ride: A Photobiography of America's Pioneering Woman Astronaut, is an intimate journey from her formative years to her final moments. Before she was an astronaut, Sally was a competitive tennis player who excelled at the game to such an extent that Billie Jean King told her she could play on the pro circuit. Before she earned a Ph.D. in physics, she was called an underachiever by her high school classmates. After her first historic space flight-she took a second in 1984-Sally continued to break ground as an inspirational advocate for space exploration, public policy, and science education, who fought gender stereotypes and opened doors for girls and women in all fields during the second half of the twentieth century. This vivid photobiography, written by Sally's life, writing, and business partner, Tam O'Shaughnessy, offers an intimate and revealing glimpse into the life and mind of the famously private, book-loving, tennis-playing physicist who made history.
Author: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 2016-02-05
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This document communicates NASA’s strategy and progress to learn about the Red Planet, to inform us more about our Earth’s past and future, and may help answer whether life exists beyond our home planet. Together with NASA’s partners in academia and commercial enterprises, NASA’s vision is to pioneer Mars and answer some of humanity’s fundamental questions: • Was Mars home to microbial life? Is it today? • Could it be a safe home for humans one day? • What can it teach us about life elsewhere in the cosmos or how life began on Earth? • What can it teach us about Earth’s past, present, and future?
Author: James E. Oberg
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780070480346
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Author: Robin Kerrod
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Published: 2004-07-06
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780836857078
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Chronicles the history of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spaceflights through 1968, and presents information about the Vostok, Voskhod, Soyuz, and Zond missions.
Author: United States. National Commission on Space
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard Spilsbury
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9781403499516
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contents include: What are Astronauts?; What do Astronauts do in space?; What is it like to live on a spacecraft?; How have Astronauts changed our lives?; What does it take to become an Astronaut?; a timeline of space travel.
Author: Dean Robbins
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Published: 2017-05-16
Total Pages: 41
ISBN-13: 0399551859
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A true story from one of the Women of NASA! Margaret Hamilton loved numbers as a young girl. She knew how many miles it was to the moon (and how many back). She loved studying algebra and geometry and calculus and using math to solve problems in the outside world. Soon math led her to MIT and then to helping NASA put a man on the moon! She handwrote code that would allow the spacecraft’s computer to solve any problems it might encounter. Apollo 8. Apollo 9. Apollo 10. Apollo 11. Without her code, none of those missions could have been completed. Dean Robbins and Lucy Knisley deliver a lovely portrayal of a pioneer in her field who never stopped reaching for the stars.