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The space barons : Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and the quest to colonize the cosmos /

Christian Davenport, Author | New York (United States) : PublicAffairs | 2018

Nearly a half-century after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, these Space Barons-most notably Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, along with Richard Branson and Paul Allen-are using Silicon Valley-style innovation to dramatically lower the cost of space[...]

Women spacefarers : sixty different paths to orbit /

Umberto Cavallaro, Author | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in space exploration | 2017

Telling the stories of the women who broke down barriers to join the space program, this book starts with the orbital flight of USSR cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova in 1963, and includes the biographies of, and some interviews with, the 60 women [...]

No dream is too high : life lessons from a man who walked on the Moon /

Buzz Aldrin, Author ; Ken Abraham, Author | [S.l.] : National Geographic Society | 2016

"Beloved American hero Buzz Aldrin reflects on the wisdom, guiding principles, and irreverent anecdotes he's gathered through his event-filled life--both in outer space and on Earth--in this inspiring guide-to-life for the next generation. Every[...]

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German rocketeers in the heart of Dixie : making sense of the Nazi past during the civil rights era /

Monique Laney, Author | New Haven : Yale University Press | 2015

This thought-provoking study by historian Monique Laney focuses on the U.S. government-assisted integration of German rocket specialists and their families into a small southern community soon after World War II. In 1950, Wernher von Braun and [...]

German rocketeers in the heart of Dixie : making sense of the Nazi past during the civil rights era /

Monique Laney, Author | New Haven : Yale University Press | 2015

This thought-provoking study by historian Monique Laney focuses on the U.S. government-assisted integration of German rocket specialists and their families into a small southern community soon after World War II. In 1950, Wernher von Braun and [...]

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The overview effect : space exploration and human evolution

Frank White, Author | Reston, VA : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics | Library of flight | 2014

More then 30 years ago, Frank White coined the term "Overview Effect" to describe the cognitive shift in awareness that results from the experience of viewing Earth from orbit or the moon. He found that, with great consistency, this experience p[...]

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Voices of the Soviet space program : cosmonauts, soldiers, and engineers who took the USSR into space /

Slava Gerovitch, Author | New York : Palgrave Macmillan | Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology | 2014

In this remarkable oral history, Slava Gerovitch presents interviews with the men and women who witnessed Soviet space efforts firsthand. Rather than comprising a "master narrative," these fascinating and varied accounts bring to light the ofte[...]

Astronaut wives club : a true story /

Lily Koppel, Author | [S.l.] : Headline | 2013

"As America's Mercury Seven astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, television cameras focused on the brave smiles of their young wives. Overnight, these women were transformed from military spouses into American royalty. They had te[...]

Women in space - Following Valentina

David J. Shayler ; Ian A. Moule | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in space exploration | 2005

The story of woman in space charts the pioneering aeronautical developments of the early decades of the 20th century to the very start of human exploration, and on to the Shuttle and space station era. The authors chronicle these missions into s[...]

A case for humans in space : the European astronauts

Barbara Warmbein, Editor | [S.l.] : European Space Agency | ESA BR | 2004

Right stuff, wrong sex : America's first women in space program

Margaret A. Weitekamp | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | Gender relations in the American experience. | 2004

This book received the EMME Award in 2004.

The Mercury 13 : the untold story of thirteen American women and the dream of space flight

Martha Ackmann | Toronto : Random House | 2003

Just after 1961, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming America's first female astronauts.

A case for humans in space : the European astronauts

Barbara Warmbein, Editor | [S.l.] : European Space Agency | ESA BR | 2001

The overview effect : space exploration and human evolution

Frank White | Reston, VA : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics | 1998

Using interviews with and writings by numerous astronauts and cosmonauts, Franck White shows how experiences such as circling the Earth every ninety minutes and viewing it from the moon have profoundly affected our space travelers' perceptions o[...]

Soviet cosmonautics : questions and answers

Valentin Glushko, Editor | [S.l.] : Novosti Press Agency | 1988

The right stuff

Tom Wolfe, Author | New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux | 1979

A narrative of the early days of the U.S. space program and the people who made it happen, including Chuck Yeager, Pete Conrad, Gus Grissom, and John Glenn