Author: Rhys Darby
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN: 9780733628764
Category : Comedians
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"A handy autobiographical end-of-the-world companion"--Cover.

Author: Julian Guthrie
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698405854
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 465

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A New York Times bestseller! The historic race that reawakened the promise of manned spaceflight A Finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Alone in a Spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill rocketed toward space. He had eighty seconds to exceed the speed of sound and begin the climb to a target no civilian pilot had ever reached. He might not make it back alive. If he did, he would make history as the world’s first commercial astronaut. The spectacle defied reason, the result of a competition dreamed up by entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, whose vision for a new race to space required small teams to do what only the world’s largest governments had done before. Peter Diamandis was the son of hardworking immigrants who wanted their science prodigy to make the family proud and become a doctor. But from the age of eight, when he watched Apollo 11 land on the Moon, his singular goal was to get to space. When he realized NASA was winding down manned space flight, Diamandis set out on one of the great entrepreneurial adventure stories of our time. If the government wouldn’t send him to space, he would create a private space flight industry himself. In the 1990s, this idea was the stuff of science fiction. Undaunted, Diamandis found inspiration in an unlikely place: the golden age of aviation. He discovered that Charles Lindbergh made his transatlantic flight to win a $25,000 prize. The flight made Lindbergh the most famous man on earth and galvanized the airline industry. Why, Diamandis thought, couldn’t the same be done for space flight? The story of the bullet-shaped SpaceShipOne, and the other teams in the hunt, is an extraordinary tale of making the impossible possible. It is driven by outsized characters—Burt Rutan, Richard Branson, John Carmack, Paul Allen—and obsessive pursuits. In the end, as Diamandis dreamed, the result wasn’t just a victory for one team; it was the foundation for a new industry and a new age.

Author: Gökçe Günel
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478002409
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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In 2006 Abu Dhabi launched an ambitious project to construct the world’s first zero-carbon city: Masdar City. In Spaceship in the Desert Gökçe Günel examines the development and construction of Masdar City's renewable energy and clean technology infrastructures, providing an illuminating portrait of an international group of engineers, designers, and students who attempted to build a post-oil future in Abu Dhabi. While many of Masdar's initiatives—such as developing a new energy currency and a driverless rapid transit network—have stalled or not met expectations, Günel analyzes how these initiatives contributed to rendering the future a thinly disguised version of the fossil-fueled present. Spaceship in the Desert tells the story of Masdar, at once a “utopia” sponsored by the Emirati government, and a well-resourced company involving different actors who participated in the project, each with their own agendas and desires.

Author: Alan Rodgers
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1587151731
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Author: Piers Bizony
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101082267
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Ladies and gentlemen, start your spaceships with this book that explores an exciting new era of space travel—the perfect science gift! Personal space travel is no longer the stuff of science fiction. The future is here: Civilians are launching into orbit. How to Build Your Own Spaceship takes readers on a fun and quirky trip to the forefront of commercial space travel-the latest technology, the major business players, and the personal and financial benefits that are ripe for the picking. Science-writer Piers Bizony's breadth of knowledge, quick wit, and no-nonsense explanations of the hard science in this emerging arena will satisfy even the most dedicated space fanatics. With practical advice (from picking the best jet fuel to funding your own fleet of space crafts), unbelievable space facts, and fascinating photos, Bizony's user-friendly guide to blasting off is a must-have ticket to the final frontier.

Author: Patrick Parrinder
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1787588173
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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If you love the mission of science fiction, the interchange between cultures, the hopeful and inexorable trajectory of technology and ideas, you'll love this anthology of new stories from Chinese and English-language writers. An impressive joint project, this outstanding new anthology brings the best of Chinese and English-language science fiction in a mediation on the theme of Exploration in Space. New, emerging, established and much-lauded writers from both cultures are brought together to demonstrate that technology and humanity when they work together bring challenges, joy and benefits to all of humankind. From Bao Shu comes 'A Trip to the End', from Allen Stroud 'The First', from He Xi 'Never Meet Again in Life', from Amdi Silvestri 'A Minuet of Corpses' and under the guiding eye of Patrick Parrinder (President of the H.G. Wells society) and Yao Haijun (celebrated editor of Science Fiction World in China) thirteen authors create a series of worlds which will enthral and entertain.

Author: Ioan Ursu
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524672173
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Author Ioan Ursu creates this book in his wish to create a new philosophical, religious organization. Through this new organization, the author wants to unify all the religious. He wants all these teachings to be free of the influence of the alien entity (so-called angels) that divides us through religions and controls our social actions, creating numerous acts of conflict and war. Ursu wrote this book to express his personal opinions and answer to questions that appear in his life, and many are the same questions that bother you. He believes opinion is the philosophic answer that will intrigue you and make you love or hate them in the function of whatever philosophical religious beliefs you have. He wants you to join him as he unifies all religious teaching and frees them from the influence of alien entities (angels), who, with their teachings, divides us through religion and controls our social actions, creating numerous acts of war.

Author: Karsten Harder
Publisher: First Edition Design Pub.
ISBN: 1937520013
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Haran's everyday subsistence existence as a peasant abruptly changes when an alien ship and its occupants crash land by his little village. Haran's mind comes face to face with the alien mind Terach. Haran/Terach's story and the other interrelated stories in this novella probe the idea of our psyche, virtual identity, their possible coexistence, and the dark side of this duality. Elsewhere, Azil, the sole survivor of a planet attacked decades before makes the transition into adulthood and psychological coexistence with his long time virtual companion.

Author: Walter Sierra
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499095252
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 363

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In Space to Stay, the third book in the spell–binding The Saga of Rocket Science series, gives a thorough exposé of the U.S. Apollo and Space Shuttle programs. You will be there as Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee perish and get incinerated inside their locked Apollo 1 capsule; when Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise didn’t know if they would make it back alive aboard a freezing lunar module on Apollo 13; as Neil and Buzz experienced the euphoria of being the first humans to land on the Moon, while Mike Collins in lunar orbit and an anxious world looked on. You’ll see the same panoramic vistas of the lunar landscape and the beautiful blue marble we call Earth as the astronauts saw. You are taken inside the Challenger Space Shuttle as it caught fire and disintegrated in flight. What seven brave astronauts felt like as they plunged to their deaths in a basically intact crew cockpit. You’ll understand exactly what failed and how it failed on both the Challenger and the ill–fated Columbia space shuttles, and why another seven astronauts aboard the Columbia felt no pain despite their grisly annihilation during reentry.

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 1050

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