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Live TV from orbit

Steven-Boniecki Dwight, Author | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2013

Live TV From Orbit presents the planning and development of the TV systems used on those flights and summarises the TV coverage during the respective missions. Engineers and planners involved with NASA, Westinghouse and RCA help complement the d[...]

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The farthest shore : a 21st century guide to space

Joseph N. Pelton, Editor ; Angelia P. Bukley, Editor | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | Space series | 2010

The Farthest Shore is a comprehensive new guide to space systems and exploration as we reach anew into space in the 21st century. Inside this substantially enlarged and revised edition, (now over 500 pages!) everyone from a questing student to [...]

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Live TV from the Moon

Steven-Boniecki Dwight, Author | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2010

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Saturn V : the complete manufacturing and test records and supplemental material

Alan Lawrie | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2010

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The Wright stuff : the century of effort behind your ticket to space

D.A. Webber, Author ; Buzz Aldrin, Author of introduction, etc. | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2010

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Apollo 17

Robert Godwin, Editor | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | The NASA mission reports | 2009

Content : 1. Summary -- 2. Introduction -- 3. Trajectory -- 4. Lunar surface science -- 5. Inflight science and photography -- 6. Medical experiments and inflight demonstrations -- 7. Command and service module -- 8. Lunar module performance -- [...]

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Energy crisis : solution from space

Ralph. Nansen | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2009

Our troubled world -- The energy eras -- Solar power satellites begin -- Our energy situation today -- Global warming -- The solution -- The fourth energy era -- A development plan -- What others think -- What is next? -- Stopping energy wars -[...]

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License to orbit : The future of commercial space travel

Joseph N. Pelton ; Peter Marshall | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | Apogee Books space series | 2009

Contents : Citizen astronauts : how soon? The billionaires enter the commercial space race. The leading players and their challengers. The international scene. Tha spaceport stampede. Will it work as a business? How safe is private space travel?[...]

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Lightcraft flight handbook : LTI-20

Leik Myrabo ; John S. Lewis | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2009

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The nuclear rocket : making our planet green, peaceful and prosperous

James A. Dewar ; Robert Bussard | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | Apogee Books space series | 2009

Ideas and themes -- Six propositions -- Three assumptions -- If you build it, we will launch it or the free launch -- The heavy lifter re-core engine -- Nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation, nuclear energy and the environment -- Four politica[...]

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The rocket belt pilot's manual : a guide by the Bell test pilot

William P. Suitor, Author | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | Apogee Books space series | 2009

"The rocketbelt, a device designed by Bell Aerosystems in the 1960s to be a tactical rescue vehicle for the United States Army, is described here for the first time by one of the machine's original test pilots. Covering everything from service a[...]

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Floating to space : the airship to orbit program

John M. Powell | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2008

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Krafft Ehricke's extraterrestrial imperative

Marsha Freeman | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2008

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Saturn I/Ib : the complete manufacturing and test records

Alan Lawrie | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | Apogee Books space series | 2008

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Apollo advanced lunar exploration planning

Robert Godwin | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | Apogee Books space series | 2007

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To the end of the solar system : the story of the nuclear rocket

James A. Dewar | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | Apogee Books space series | 2007

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The lunar exploration scrapbook : a pictorial history of lunar vehicles

Robert Godwin | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2007

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Apollo spacecraft news reference : (lunar module)

Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation. ; Public Affairs, Space. ; United States. ; National Aeronautics and Space Administration. ; Manned Spacecraft Center (U.S.) | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2006

DVD Grumman lunar module TM-1-1964 -- Grummann lunar simulator -- LM construction 1964 -- EVA suit test 1964 -- LM descent engine tests -- LM underwater ingress training -- LM assembly 1968 -- LM peel-away slide show.

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Go for launch : an illustrated history of Cape Canaveral

Joel W. Powell ; Art. LeBrun | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | Apogee Books space series | 2006

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ISScapades : the crippling of America's space program

Donald A. Beattie | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2006

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Project Mars : a technical tale

Wernher Von Braun ; Henry J. White | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | Apogee Books Science Fiction | 2006

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Spaceships : a reference guide to international reusable launch vehicle concepts from 1944 to the present

Robert A. Goehlich | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2006

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Surveyor : lunar exploration program

Robert Godwin, Editor | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | The NASA mission reports | 2006

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Deep space : the NASA mission reports

Robert Godwin, Editor ; Steve Whitfield, Editor ; United States., Editor ; National Aeronautics and Space Administration., Editor | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | Apogee Books space series | 2005

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Getting off the planet : training astronauts

Mary Jane Chambers ; Randall M. Chambers | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | Apogee Books space series | 2005

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On to Mars 2 : exploring and settling a new world

Robert M. Zubrin, Editor ; Frank Crossman, Editor | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | Apogee Books space series | 2005

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Return to the Moon

Rick (ed.) Tumlinson ; Erin Medlicott | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | Apogee Books space series | 2005

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Saturn V : the complete manufacturing and test records : plus supplemental material

Alan Lawrie ; Robert Godwin | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | Apogee Books space series | 2005

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The farthest shore : a 21st century guide to space

Joseph N. Pelton, Editor ; Angelia P. Bukley, Editor | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | Space series | 2004

The Farthest Shore is a comprehensive new guide to space systems and exploration as we reach anew into space in the 21st century. Inside this substantially enlarged and revised edition, (now over 500 pages!) everyone from a questing student to [...]

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Moonrush : improving life on earth with the moon's resources

Dennis Wingo | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2004

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How NASA learned to fly in space : an exciting account of the Gemini missions

David M. Harland | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2004

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New moon rising : the making of America's new space vision and the remaking of NASA

Frank Jr. Sietzen ; Keith L. Cowing | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | Apogee Books space series | 2004

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Space tourism : do you want to go?

John R. Spencer ; Karen L. Rugg | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2004

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Mars : the NASA mission reports

Robert Godwin, Editor | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2004

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Apollo EECOM : journey of a lifetime

Sy. Liebergot ; David M. Harland | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2003

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Dyna-Soar : hypersonic strategic weapons system

Robert Godwin | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | Apogee Books space series | 2003

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Gemini 12 : the NASA mission reports

Robert Godwin | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2003

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Interstellar travel and multi-generation space ships

Yoji Kondo, Editor ; Frederick C. Bruhweiler, Editor ; John Moore, Editor | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2003

This book is a part of the collection of papers which were presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Symposium, held in Boston on February 15, 2002. The contributors try to answer questions as Why do we want to travel [...]

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The rocket team

Frederik Ordway ; Mitchell R. Sharpe | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2003

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Sigma 7 : the six orbits of Walter M. Schirra

Robert Godwin, Editor ; Steve Whitfield, Editor | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2003

Disc NASA movie, The flight of Sigma 7; video interview with Walter M. Schirra, done in September 1999; NASA documents, Space medicine in Project Mercury (SP-4003).

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Space Trivia

William R. Pogue | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2003

The book spans the period from the Mercury project of the early 1960s right up to the current Shuttle/Space Station era. Have fun with the 800-questions and answers.

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A vision of future space transportation : a visual guide to future spacecraft concepts

Tim McElyea | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2003

The glorious Space Age has come and gone. So what's next now? This book is a guide of future space transportation concepts. From Earth-to-Orbit to in-space transportation, you will sample what is being considered and get an easy-to -understand e[...]

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Woman of space : cool careers on the final frontier

Laura S. Woodmansee | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2003

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Apollo 17 : the NASA mission reports

Robert Godwin, Editor ; United States, Editor | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | The NASA mission reports | 2002

It was just past midnight in the early morning hours of 7 December 1972 when the last manned Saturn V roared from the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center. Strapped into the crowded Command Module were Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module P[...]

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Apollo 9 : the NASA mission reports

Robert Godwin | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2002

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The conquest of space

David Lasser | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2002

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Creating space : the story of the space age told through models

Matt Irvine | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2002

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Gemini 7 : the NASA mission reports

Robert Godwin, Editor | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2002

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On to Mars : colonizing a new world

Robert M. Zubrin, Editor ; Franck Crossman, Editor | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2002

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Women Astronauts

Laura S. Woodmansee | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2002

Few books are relating the story of women in astronautics, that one concerns all women and the special place they had in the history of space exploration.

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Freedom 7 : the first U.S. manned space flight

Robert Godwin, Editor | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | Apogee Books space series | 2001

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Rocket and space corporation Energia : the legacy of S.P. Korolev

Robert Godwin | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2001

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Space shuttle : STS flights 1-5, incl. approach & landing tests : the NASA mission reports

Robert Godwin, Editor ; United States., Editor ; National Aeronautics and Space Administration., Editor | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2001

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Apollo 10 : the NASA mission reports

Robert Godwin, Editor | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | The NASA mission reports | 2000

On May 18th 1969 NASA launched the last in a series of daring test flights of the Apollo hardware. Apollo 10 would follow swiftly on the heels of the successful flight of Apollo 9. The goal was to send a second crew into space but this time with[...]

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Apollo 13 : the NASA mission reports

Robert Godwin, Editor | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | The NASA mission reports | 2000

In 1970 some considered Apollo 13 a catastrophic failure but it has since been recognised as one of NASA's truly great moments, when the spirit of daring and ingenuity came to life in the team at Mission Control as they successfully brought the [...]

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Apollo 14 : the NASA mission reports

Robert Godwin, Editor | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | The NASA mission reports | 2000

After the unfortunate accident which befell Apollo 13 the job of getting NASA back to the moon fell on the shoulders of America's oldest astronaut Alan B. Shepard. Shepard had been grounded since the flight of Freedom 7 in 1961 due to an inner [...]

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Apollo 7 : the NASA mission reports

Robert Godwin, Editor | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | The NASA mission reports | 2000

October 1968 and the United States manned space program was about to be reborn. An entirely new space vehicle awaited its pilots at Pad 34. After 21 months the three-man Apollo space capsule had undergone a transformation. Over 1300 modificatio[...]

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Apollo 8 : the NASA mission reports

Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | The NASA mission reports | 2000

On December 21st 1968 the NASA sent three men to orbit the moon. Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders were to be the first living creatures to enter deep space. It was the boldest step y[...]

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Gemini 6 : the NASA mission reports

Robert Godwin | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2000

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The high frontier : human colonies in space

Gerard K. O'Neill | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 2000

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Mars : the NASA mission reports

Robert Godwin, Editor | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | AP-2000-002.1 | 2000

The Red Planet has been a beacon to every race of mankind since the dawn of history. Today Mars stands as a symbol of the high frontier -the next logical step in our exploration of the universe around us. In 1964 the United States of America lau[...]

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X-15 : the NASA mission reports

Robert Godwin, Editor | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | AP-2000-653-2 | 2000

The history of aviation in the 20th century is filled with remarkable accomplishments. None more remarkable than the world's first winged spacecraft. From 1957 to 1975 the United States and the Soviet Union played a high stakes game as they put [...]

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Apollo 12 : the NASA mission report

Robert Godwin, Editor | Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books | 1999

When the crew of Apollo 11 returned to Earth in July 1969, they brought with them a wealth of new information about the moon. Now astronauts Charles (Pete) Conrad, Alan Bean and Richard Gordon would return to the moon and build on that knowledge[...]

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Friendship 7 : the first flight of John Glenn : the NASA mission reports

Burlington, Ont. : Apogee books

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