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Breaking the Time Barrier
Author | : Jenny Randles |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2005-04-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0743492595 |
The race to build the first time machine.
Fighting for Space
Author | : Amy Shira Teitel |
Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2020-02-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1538716038 |
Spaceflight historian Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting story of the female pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space. When the space age dawned in the late 1950s, Jackie Cochran held more propeller and jet flying records than any pilot of the twentieth century—man or woman. She had led the Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots during the Second World War, was the first woman to break the sound barrier, ran her own luxury cosmetics company, and counted multiple presidents among her personal friends. She was more qualified than any woman in the world to make the leap from atmosphere to orbit. Yet it was Jerrie Cobb, twenty-five years Jackie's junior and a record-holding pilot in her own right, who finagled her way into taking the same medical tests as the Mercury astronauts. The prospect of flying in space quickly became her obsession. While the American and international media spun the shocking story of a "woman astronaut" program, Jackie and Jerrie struggled to gain control of the narrative, each hoping to turn the rumored program into their own ideal reality—an issue that ultimately went all the way to Congress. This dual biography of audacious trailblazers Jackie Cochran and Jerrie Cobb presents these fascinating and fearless women in all their glory and grit, using their stories as guides through the shifting social, political, and technical landscape of the time.
Breaking the Chains of Gravity
Author | : Amy Shira Teitel |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2015-10-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1472911199 |
The incredible story of spaceflight before the establishment of NASA. NASA's history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the Moon in 1969. But America's space agency wasn't created in a vacuum. It was assembled from pre-existing parts, drawing together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer. In the 1930s, rockets were all the rage in Germany, the focus both of scientists hoping to fly into space and of the German armed forces, looking to circumvent the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles. One of the key figures in this period was Wernher von Braun, an engineer who designed the rockets that became the devastating V-2. As the war came to its chaotic conclusion, von Braun escaped from the ruins of Nazi Germany, and was taken to America where he began developing missiles for the US Army. Meanwhile, the US Air Force was looking ahead to a time when men would fly in space, and test pilots like Neil Armstrong were flying cutting-edge, rocket-powered aircraft in the thin upper atmosphere. Breaking the Chains of Gravity tells the story of America's nascent space program, its scientific advances, its personalities and the rivalries it caused between the various arms of the US military. At this point getting a man in space became a national imperative, leading to the creation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, otherwise known as NASA.
The Secret Discovery of Australia
Author | : Kenneth Gordon McIntyre |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Space Transportation
Author | : Walter Edward Hammond |
Publisher | : AIAA |
Total Pages | : 740 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Astronautics |
ISBN | : 9781600861109 |
Annotation This practical book gives young professionals all the information they need to know to get started in the space business. It takes you step-by-step through processes for systems engineering and acquisition, design and development, cost analysis, and program planning and analysis. You'll find the systems engineering and design process that applies to all space transportation systems, then the overall system architecture considerations that also apply to all space transportation systems. There is also detailed coverage of space launch vehicles by class, including the current space shuttle, other manned reusable systems, expendable systems, and future systems. A companion CD-ROM contains the Operations Simulation and Analysis Modeling System software.
Benjamin Breaking Barriers
Author | : Malva Freymuth Tarasewicz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2014-03 |
Genre | : Autism in children |
ISBN | : 9780967002743 |
A fascinating memoir of a mother helping her autistic son to overcome his challenges; a success story that covers the journey from infancy to adulthood, and illustrates how love, determination, and hard work can conquer all. Written to have broad audience appeal, this book is simultaneously a valuable autism/special-needs resource for parents and professionals. It is filled with inspiring, creative ideas, and includes reader resources such as thought-provoking discussion questions and an index of the therapeutic interventions/attitudes discussed throughout the text. Benjamin, the focal subject of the story, has become a rising star in the world of public speaking, has been featured on TV and in various news stories, and is making a real impact in the communities that invite him to speak. His story encourages listeners to overcome their own barriers as well as educating them to have a more compassionate viewpoint towards those who are different. Benjamin s message reaches far beyond the bounds of autism, and so does this book, as is evidenced by the glowing advance praise provided by recognized names such as Rosalind Wiseman (NY Times bestselling author), Temple Grandin (world-famous autistic and author), Dr. Robert Melillo (bestselling author and co-founder of Brain Balance Centers), and others.
Tracking Apollo to the Moon
Author | : Hamish Lindsay |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2013-11-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 144710255X |
This is perhaps the most complete, detailed and readable story of manned space-flight ever published. The text begins with the historical origins of the dream of walking on the Moon, covers the earliest Mercury and Gemini flights and then moves on to the end of the Apollo era. In readable, fascinating detail, Hamish Lindsay - who was directly involved in all three programs - chronicles mankind's greatest adventure with a great narrative, interviews, quotes and masses of photographs, including some previously unpublished. In addition to bringing the history of these missions to life the book serves as a detailed reference for space enthusiasts and students.