Author: William R. CorlissPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Outer space
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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The Interplanetary Pioneers
Author: William R. CorlissPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Outer space
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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The Interplanetary Pioneers: Summary
Author: William R. CorlissPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Outer space
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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The Interplanetary Pioneers: Operations
Author: William R. CorlissPublisher:
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Category : Outer space
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Space Pioneers and where They are Now
Author: Earl J. MontoyaPublisher:
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Category : Outer space
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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The Interplanetary Pioneers
Author: William R. CorlissPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Outer space
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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The Interplanetary Pioneers. Volume 1: Summary
Author: William Roger CorlissPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Outer space
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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The Pioneers
Author: David McCulloughPublisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1501168681
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that’s “as resonant today as ever” (The Wall Street Journal)—the settling of the Northwest Territory by courageous pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would define our country. As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler was instrumental in opening this vast territory to veterans of the Revolutionary War and their families for settlement. Included in the Northwest Ordinance were three remarkable conditions: freedom of religion, free universal education, and most importantly, the prohibition of slavery. In 1788 the first band of pioneers set out from New England for the Northwest Territory under the leadership of Revolutionary War veteran General Rufus Putnam. They settled in what is now Marietta on the banks of the Ohio River. McCullough tells the story through five major characters: Cutler and Putnam; Cutler’s son Ephraim; and two other men, one a carpenter turned architect, and the other a physician who became a prominent pioneer in American science. They and their families created a town in a primeval wilderness, while coping with such frontier realities as floods, fires, wolves and bears, no roads or bridges, no guarantees of any sort, all the while negotiating a contentious and sometimes hostile relationship with the native people. Like so many of McCullough’s subjects, they let no obstacle deter or defeat them. Drawn in great part from a rare and all-but-unknown collection of diaries and letters by the key figures, The Pioneers is a uniquely American story of people whose ambition and courage led them to remarkable accomplishments. This is a revelatory and quintessentially American story, written with David McCullough’s signature narrative energy.
The Interplanetary Pioneers
Author: William R. CorlissPublisher:
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Category : Outer space
Languages : en
Pages :
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Martian Summer
Author: Andrew KesslerPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497641403
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
A space enthusiast goes inside mission control with a motley crew of rocket scientists in this “fascinating journey of discovery peppered with humor” (Publishers Weekly). The Phoenix Mars mission was the first man-made probe ever sent to the Martian arctic. Its purpose was to find out how climate change could turn a warm, wet planet (read: Earth) into a cold, barren desert (read: Mars). Along the way, Phoenix discovered a giant frozen ocean trapped beneath the north pole of Mars, exotic food for aliens, and liquid water, and laid the foundation for NASA’s current exploration of Mars using the Curiosity rover. This is not science fiction. It’s fact. And for the luckiest fanboy in fandom, it was the best vacation ever. Andrew Kessler spent the summer of 2008 in NASA’s mission control with one hundred thirty of the world’s best planetary scientists and engineers as they carried out this ambitious operation. He came back with a story of human drama about modern-day pioneers battling NASA politics, temperamental robots, and the bizarre world of daily life in mission control.
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