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Author: Aleksandr Orlov Publisher: Random House ISBN: 0091949998 Category : Meerkat Languages : en Pages : 39
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Aleksandr's over-worked, fleaful assistant finally gets to tell his story - as faithfully told by Aleksandr Orlov. Captain Sergei finds himself at the forefront of the latest Meerthrust to the moon. Battling exhaustion, it's touch-and-go whether Sergei will achieve his ambition to play golf on the moon.
Author: Aleksandr Orlov Publisher: Random House ISBN: 0091949998 Category : Meerkat Languages : en Pages : 39
Book Description
Aleksandr's over-worked, fleaful assistant finally gets to tell his story - as faithfully told by Aleksandr Orlov. Captain Sergei finds himself at the forefront of the latest Meerthrust to the moon. Battling exhaustion, it's touch-and-go whether Sergei will achieve his ambition to play golf on the moon.
Author: Martin W. Sandler Publisher: Candlewick Press ISBN: 1536203998 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 227
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A nation in need of hope, the most powerful rocket ever launched, and the first three men to break the bounds of Earth: Apollo 8 was headed to the moon. In 1957, when the USSR launched Sputnik I, the first man-made satellite to orbit Earth, America’s rival in the Cold War claimed victory on a new frontier. The Space Race had begun, and the United States was losing. Closer to home, a decade of turbulence would soon have Americans reeling, with the year 1968 alone seeing the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy as well as many violent clashes between police and protesters. Americans desperately needed something good to believe in, and NASA’s mission to orbit Earth in Apollo 8 and test a lunar landing module was being planned for the end of the year. But with four months to go and the module behind schedule, the CIA discovered that the USSR was preparing to send its own mission around the moon — another crucial victory in the Space Race — and it was clearly time for a change of plan. In a volume full of astonishing full-color photographs, including the iconic Earthrise photo, Martin W. Sandler unfolds an incredible chapter in U.S. history: Apollo 8 wouldn’t just orbit Earth, it would take American astronauts to see the dark side of the moon.
Author: Sergei Urban Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0525542701 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 194
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The ultimate collection of DIY activities to do with your kids to teach STEM basics and beyond, from a wildly popular online dad. With more than 3 million fans, TheDadLab has become an online sensation, with weekly videos of fun and easy science experiments that parents can do with their kids. These simple projects use materials found around the house, making it easier than ever for busy moms and dads to not only spend more quality time with their children but also get them interested in science and technology. In this mind-blowing book, Sergei Urban takes the challenge off-screen with fifty step-by-step projects, including some that he has never shared online before. Each activity will go beyond the videos, featuring detailed explanations to simplify scientific concepts for parents and help answer the hows and whys of their curious children. Learn how to: explore new fun ways to paint; make slime with only two ingredients; defy gravity with a ping-pong ball; produce your own electricity, and more! With TheDadLab, parents everywhere will have an easy solution to the dreaded "I'm bored" complaint right at their fingertips!
Author: Dean Page Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1493184601 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 249
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We call to paper the quandary of Valerie Meridian and what to do with him. Valerie is a victim of the 21st Century. Valerie wants to do the right thing the television told him so trouble is, the television never told him exactly what the right thing is, and now he's spent his days in search of someone who might finish what it started. Well, Valerie's about to get a lesson in letting others do his thinking for him. Our story begins with a choice. For Valerie to help himself at the harm of another or to help another at the harm of himself. But what everyone forgot to tell him was that the world doesn't care if he makes the right choice or not, and that his decision will find him swiftly in a reality beyond even the television's infinite imagination a world of circuitry rampant, and of technology forgotten, of genetic minorities and of majority rule, a world of programmed morality and dogmatic conformity, of terrorism and colonization and a debauched human form, of mechanical police and organic computers, a world where truth and lie share a common interest, where death is held for ransom, and life is handed out for free.
Author: Colin Burgess Publisher: Reaktion Books ISBN: 1789144590 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 369
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The Greatest Adventure explores the past, present, and future of the space race. The space race was perhaps the greatest technological contest of the twentieth century. It was a thrilling era of innovation, discovery, and exploration, as astronauts and cosmonauts were launched on space missions of increasing length, complexity, and danger. The Greatest Adventure traces the events of this extraordinary period, describing the initial string of Soviet achievements: the first satellite in orbit; the first animal, man, and woman in space; the first spacewalk; as well as the ultimate US victory in the race to land on the moon. The book then takes the reader on a journey through the following decades of space exploration to the present time, detailing the many successes, tragedies, risks, and rewards of space exploration.
Author: Piers Bizony Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 006089010X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 324
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A half-century history of space exploration documents efforts from Sputnik to the present day, in a visual tour that profiles such subjects as a Gemini space capsule and deep-field images of ancient galaxies as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Author: James Harford Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0471327212 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 438
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How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive Beat America to the Moon. "Fascinating . . . packed with technical and historical detail for the space expert and enthusiast alike . . . Great stuff!"-New Scientist "In this exceptional book, James Harford pieces together a most compelling and well-written tale. . . . Must reading."-Space News. "Through masterful research and an engaging narrative style, James Harford gives the world its first in-depth look at the man who should rightly be called the father of the Soviet space program."-Norman R. Augustine, CEO, Lockheed Martin. "In Korolev, James Harford has written a masterly biography of this enigmatic 'Chief Designer' whose role the Soviets kept secret for fear that Western agents might 'get at' him."-Daily Telegraph. "Harford's fluency in Russian and his intimate knowledge of space technology give us insights that few, if any, Americans and Russians have had into this dark history of Soviet space."-Dr. Herbert Friedman, Chief Scientist, Hulburt Center for Space Research Naval Research Laboratory. "Reveals the complex, driven personality of a man who, despite unjust imprisonment in the Gulag, toiled tirelessly for the Soviet military industrial complex. . . . More than just a biography, this is also a history of the Soviet space program at the height of the Cold War. . . . Highly recommended."-Library Journal. "For decades the identity of the Russian Chief Designer who shocked the world with the launching of the first Sputnik was one of the Soviet Union's best-kept secrets. This book tells vividly the story of that man, Sergei Korolev, in remarkable detail, with many facts and anecdotes previously unavailable to the West."-Sergei Khrushchev, Visiting Senior Fellow, Center for Foreign Policy Development.
Author: Rebecca Stefoff Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 1515752674 Category : Languages : en Pages : 106
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This book explores various perspectives surrounding the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Readers are immersed in the action as their choices guide the narrative.
Author: William E. Burrows Publisher: Modern Library ISBN: 0307765482 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 795
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It was all part of man's greatest adventure--landing men on the Moon and sending a rover to Mars, finally seeing the edge of the universe and the birth of stars, and launching planetary explorers across the solar system to Neptune and beyond. The ancient dream of breaking gravity's hold and taking to space became a reality only because of the intense cold-war rivalry between the superpowers, with towering geniuses like Wernher von Braun and Sergei Korolyov shelving dreams of space travel and instead developing rockets for ballistic missiles and space spectaculars. Now that Russian archives are open and thousands of formerly top-secret U.S. documents are declassified, an often startling new picture of the space age emerges: the frantic effort by the Soviet Union to beat the United States to the Moon was doomed from the beginning by gross inefficiency and by infighting so treacherous that Winston Churchill likened it to "dogs fighting under a carpet"; there was more than science behind the United States' suggestion that satellites be launched during the International Geophysical Year, and in one crucial respect, Sputnik was a godsend to Washington; the hundred-odd German V-2s that provided the vital start to the U.S. missile and space programs legally belonged to the Soviet Union and were spirited to the United States in a derring-do operation worthy of a spy thriller; despite NASA's claim that it was a civilian agency, it had an intimate relationship with the military at the outset and still does--a distinction the Soviet Union never pretended to make; constant efforts to portray astronauts and cosmonauts as "Boy Scouts" were often contradicted by reality; the Apollo missions to the Moon may have been an unexcelled political triumph and feat of exploration, but they also created a headache for the space agency that lingers to this day. This New Ocean is based on 175 interviews with Russian and American scientists and engineers; on archival documents, including formerly top-secret National Intelligence Estimates and spy satellite pictures; and on nearly three decades of reporting. The impressive result is this fascinating story--the first comprehensive account--of the space age. Here are the strategists and war planners; engineers and scientists; politicians and industrialists; astronauts and cosmonauts; science fiction writers and journalists; and plain, ordinary, unabashed dreamers who wanted to transcend gravity's shackles for the ultimate ride. The story is written from the perspective of a witness who was present at the beginning and who has seen the conclusion of the first space age and the start of the second.
Author: Aleksandr Orlov
Author: Aleksandr Orlov
Author: Martin W. Sandler
Author: Sergei Urban
Author: Dean Page
Author: Colin Burgess
Author: Piers Bizony
Author: James Harford
Author: Allison Lassieur
Author: Rebecca Stefoff
Author: William E. Burrows