Author: James Blish
Publisher: Avon Books
ISBN: 9780380579686
Category : Interplanetary voyages
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Mission to the Heart Stars
Author: James Blish
Publisher: Avon Books
ISBN: 9780380579686
Category : Interplanetary voyages
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Publisher: Avon Books
ISBN: 9780380579686
Category : Interplanetary voyages
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
The NASA Kepler Mission
Author: Steve B.. Howell
Publisher: IOP Publishing Limited
ISBN: 9780750322942
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book covers the numerous, paradigm changing scientific discoveries in exoplanets and other areas of astrophysics made possible by the NASA Kepler and K2 Missions. It is suitable for the interested layperson, pupils of science and space missions, and advanced science students and researchers.
Publisher: IOP Publishing Limited
ISBN: 9780750322942
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book covers the numerous, paradigm changing scientific discoveries in exoplanets and other areas of astrophysics made possible by the NASA Kepler and K2 Missions. It is suitable for the interested layperson, pupils of science and space missions, and advanced science students and researchers.
Today's All-Star Missions Churches
Author: Tom Telford
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 0801063817
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A helpful collection of studies on churches with strong and innovative missions programs.
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 0801063817
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A helpful collection of studies on churches with strong and innovative missions programs.
Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars
Author: Eileen M. Collins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1956763007
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The long-awaited memoir of a trailblazer and role model who is telling her story for the first time. Eileen Collins was an aviation pioneer her entire career, from her crowning achievements as the first woman to command an American space mission as well as the first to pilot the space shuttle to her early years as one of the Air Force’s first female pilots. She was in the first class of women to earn pilot’s wings at Vance Air Force Base and was their first female instructor pilot. She was only the second woman pilot admitted to the Air Force’s elite Test Pilot Program at Edwards Air Force Base. NASA had such confidence in her skills as a leader and pilot that she was entrusted to command the first shuttle mission after the Columbia disaster, returning the US to spaceflight after a two-year hiatus. Since retiring from the Air Force and NASA, she has served on numerous corporate boards and is an inspirational speaker about space exploration and leadership. Eileen Collins is among the most recognized and admired women in the world, yet this is the first time she has told her story in a book. It is a story not only of achievement and overcoming obstacles but of profound personal transformation. The shy, quiet child of an alcoholic father and struggling single mother, who grew up in modest circumstances and was an unremarkable student, she had few prospects when she graduated from high school, but she changed her life to pursue her secret dream of becoming an astronaut. She shares her leadership and life lessons throughout the book with the aim of inspiring and passing on her legacy to a new generation.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1956763007
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The long-awaited memoir of a trailblazer and role model who is telling her story for the first time. Eileen Collins was an aviation pioneer her entire career, from her crowning achievements as the first woman to command an American space mission as well as the first to pilot the space shuttle to her early years as one of the Air Force’s first female pilots. She was in the first class of women to earn pilot’s wings at Vance Air Force Base and was their first female instructor pilot. She was only the second woman pilot admitted to the Air Force’s elite Test Pilot Program at Edwards Air Force Base. NASA had such confidence in her skills as a leader and pilot that she was entrusted to command the first shuttle mission after the Columbia disaster, returning the US to spaceflight after a two-year hiatus. Since retiring from the Air Force and NASA, she has served on numerous corporate boards and is an inspirational speaker about space exploration and leadership. Eileen Collins is among the most recognized and admired women in the world, yet this is the first time she has told her story in a book. It is a story not only of achievement and overcoming obstacles but of profound personal transformation. The shy, quiet child of an alcoholic father and struggling single mother, who grew up in modest circumstances and was an unremarkable student, she had few prospects when she graduated from high school, but she changed her life to pursue her secret dream of becoming an astronaut. She shares her leadership and life lessons throughout the book with the aim of inspiring and passing on her legacy to a new generation.
Mission to the Stars
Author: Alfred Elton Van Vogt
Publisher: New York : Berkley Publishing Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The colonies of Fifty Suns, hidden for eons in an ocean of stars, are finally traced by the warship, Star Cluster, of Imperial Earth. Torn By rebellion, Fifty Suns must crush the titanic Earth forces or submit to the domination of the Great Galactic Union. It falls to one man, Peter Maltby, brilliant leader of the feared Mixed Men, to unite the warring factions of his galaxy and guide them to victory. But first he must resolve his own crossed loyalties. For Captain Maltby of Fifty Suns is alsop the passionate lover of Lady Laurr, Grand Commander of the Star Cluster, warrior of Imperial Earth ...
Publisher: New York : Berkley Publishing Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The colonies of Fifty Suns, hidden for eons in an ocean of stars, are finally traced by the warship, Star Cluster, of Imperial Earth. Torn By rebellion, Fifty Suns must crush the titanic Earth forces or submit to the domination of the Great Galactic Union. It falls to one man, Peter Maltby, brilliant leader of the feared Mixed Men, to unite the warring factions of his galaxy and guide them to victory. But first he must resolve his own crossed loyalties. For Captain Maltby of Fifty Suns is alsop the passionate lover of Lady Laurr, Grand Commander of the Star Cluster, warrior of Imperial Earth ...
Mission to Horatius
Author: Mack Reynolds
Publisher: Beyond Words/Atria Books
ISBN: 9780671028121
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
In 1967, Western Publishing released the first ever Star Trek novel as part of a line of books that included such other TV hits as Bonanza and Land of the Giants. Lost for over thirty years, this tale of Captain Kirk's mysterious mission to a primitive planet is back to thrill the legions of fans of the most successful science-fiction series of all time. Sure to be a collector's item, STAR TREK: MISSION OT HORATIUS is being reprinted by Pocket Books in a facsimile edition, complete with the original 1967 covers and interior illustrations, as part of its celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the incredibly popular Star Trek fiction line.
Publisher: Beyond Words/Atria Books
ISBN: 9780671028121
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
In 1967, Western Publishing released the first ever Star Trek novel as part of a line of books that included such other TV hits as Bonanza and Land of the Giants. Lost for over thirty years, this tale of Captain Kirk's mysterious mission to a primitive planet is back to thrill the legions of fans of the most successful science-fiction series of all time. Sure to be a collector's item, STAR TREK: MISSION OT HORATIUS is being reprinted by Pocket Books in a facsimile edition, complete with the original 1967 covers and interior illustrations, as part of its celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the incredibly popular Star Trek fiction line.
Mission to the Stars
Author: Alfred Elton Van Vogt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Chasing New Horizons
Author: Alan Stern
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 125009898X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Called "spellbinding" (Scientific American) and "thrilling...a future classic of popular science" (PW), the up close, inside story of the greatest space exploration project of our time, New Horizons’ mission to Pluto, as shared with David Grinspoon by mission leader Alan Stern and other key players. On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than 3 billion miles from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft called New Horizons screamed past Pluto at more than 32,000 miles per hour, focusing its instruments on the long mysterious icy worlds of the Pluto system, and then, just as quickly, continued on its journey out into the beyond. Nothing like this has occurred in a generation—a raw exploration of new worlds unparalleled since NASA’s Voyager missions to Uranus and Neptune—and nothing quite like it is planned to happen ever again. The photos that New Horizons sent back to Earth graced the front pages of newspapers on all 7 continents, and NASA’s website for the mission received more than 2 billion hits in the days surrounding the flyby. At a time when so many think that our most historic achievements are in the past, the most distant planetary exploration ever attempted not only succeeded in 2015 but made history and captured the world’s imagination. How did this happen? Chasing New Horizons is the story of the men and women behind this amazing mission: of their decades-long commitment and persistence; of the political fights within and outside of NASA; of the sheer human ingenuity it took to design, build, and fly the mission; and of the plans for New Horizons’ next encounter, 1 billion miles past Pluto in 2019. Told from the insider’s perspective of mission leader Dr. Alan Stern and others on New Horizons, and including two stunning 16-page full-color inserts of images, Chasing New Horizons is a riveting account of scientific discovery, and of how much we humans can achieve when people focused on a dream work together toward their incredible goal.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 125009898X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Called "spellbinding" (Scientific American) and "thrilling...a future classic of popular science" (PW), the up close, inside story of the greatest space exploration project of our time, New Horizons’ mission to Pluto, as shared with David Grinspoon by mission leader Alan Stern and other key players. On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than 3 billion miles from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft called New Horizons screamed past Pluto at more than 32,000 miles per hour, focusing its instruments on the long mysterious icy worlds of the Pluto system, and then, just as quickly, continued on its journey out into the beyond. Nothing like this has occurred in a generation—a raw exploration of new worlds unparalleled since NASA’s Voyager missions to Uranus and Neptune—and nothing quite like it is planned to happen ever again. The photos that New Horizons sent back to Earth graced the front pages of newspapers on all 7 continents, and NASA’s website for the mission received more than 2 billion hits in the days surrounding the flyby. At a time when so many think that our most historic achievements are in the past, the most distant planetary exploration ever attempted not only succeeded in 2015 but made history and captured the world’s imagination. How did this happen? Chasing New Horizons is the story of the men and women behind this amazing mission: of their decades-long commitment and persistence; of the political fights within and outside of NASA; of the sheer human ingenuity it took to design, build, and fly the mission; and of the plans for New Horizons’ next encounter, 1 billion miles past Pluto in 2019. Told from the insider’s perspective of mission leader Dr. Alan Stern and others on New Horizons, and including two stunning 16-page full-color inserts of images, Chasing New Horizons is a riveting account of scientific discovery, and of how much we humans can achieve when people focused on a dream work together toward their incredible goal.
Solar System Mission
Author: Francis Spencer
Publisher: Crabtree Seedlings
ISBN: 9781039644700
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Take a tour of the galaxies and the universe. Learn about our Sun, the eight true planets, and the dwarf planets in our solar system. Find out what lies beyond the eighth planet, Neptune"--Back cover.
Publisher: Crabtree Seedlings
ISBN: 9781039644700
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Take a tour of the galaxies and the universe. Learn about our Sun, the eight true planets, and the dwarf planets in our solar system. Find out what lies beyond the eighth planet, Neptune"--Back cover.
The Continuing Mission
Author: Judith Reeves-Stevens
Publisher: Pocket Books/Star Trek
ISBN: 9780671025595
Category : Star Trek films
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This tribute to the creation of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" celebrates the tenth anniversary of the popular TV series, profiling the people who originated it. 700+ illustrations & color photos.
Publisher: Pocket Books/Star Trek
ISBN: 9780671025595
Category : Star Trek films
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This tribute to the creation of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" celebrates the tenth anniversary of the popular TV series, profiling the people who originated it. 700+ illustrations & color photos.