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  • Dark Star

    A New History of the Space Shuttle

    by Matthew H. Hersch ...
    A captivating history of NASA’s Space Transportation System—the space shuttle—chronicling the inevitable failures of a doomed design.In Dark Star, Matthew Hersch challenges the existing narrative of the most significant human space program of the last 50 years, NASA’s space shuttle. He begins with the origins of the space shuttle: a century-long effort to develop a low-cost, reusable, rocket ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Inventing the American Astronaut

    by Matthew H. Hersch ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Who were the men who led America's first expeditions into space? Soldiers? Daredevils? The public sometimes imagined them that way: heroic military men and hot-shot pilots without the capacity for doubt, fear, or worry. However, early astronauts were hard-working and determined professionals - 'organization men' - who were calm, calculating, and highly attuned to the politics and celebrity of the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • Rocket Men

    The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon

    by Craig Nelson ...
    A New York Times Bestseller"Celebrates a bold era when voyaging beyond the Earth was deemed crucial to national security and pride."-The Wall Street JournalRestoring the drama, majesty, and sheer improbability of an American triumph, this is award-winning historian Craig Nelson's definitive and thrilling story of man's first trip to the moon. At 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 rocket ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Digital Apollo

    Human and Machine in Spaceflight

    by David A. Mindell ...
    The incredible story of how human pilots and automated systems worked together to achieve the ultimate achievement in flight—the lunar landings of NASA’s Apollo programAs Apollo 11’s Lunar Module descended toward the moon under automatic control, a program alarm in the guidance computer’s software nearly caused a mission abort. Neil Armstrong responded by switching off the automatic mode and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Comm Check...

    The Final Flight of Shuttle Columbia

    by Michael Cabbage, William Harwood ...
    On February 1, 2003, the unthinkable happened. The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated 37 miles above Texas, seven brave astronauts were killed and America's space program, always an eyeblink from disaster, suffered its second catastrophic in-flight failure. Unlike the Challenger disaster 17 years earlier, Columbia's destruction left the nation one failure away from the potential abandonment of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Higher

    100 Years of Boeing

    by Russ Banham ...
    "A lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched overview of the aerospace giant's first century." — Aviation WeekOver the course of a century, the Boeing Company grew from a small outfit operating out of a converted boathouse—producing a single pontoon plane made from canvas and wood—into the world's largest aerospace company. The thrilling story of the celebrated organization is filled with ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Secret of Apollo

    Systems Management in American and European Space Programs

    by Stephen B. Johnson ...
    Series series New Series in NASA History
    "Skillfully interweaving technical details and fascinating personalities, Johnson tells the history of systems management in the U.S. and Europe." —Howard McCurdy, author of Space and the American ImaginationWinner of the Emme Award for Astronautical Literature from the American Astronautical SocietyHow does one go about organizing something as complicated as a strategic-missile or space ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spaceflight in the Shuttle Era and Beyond

    Redefining Humanity's Purpose in Space

    by Valerie Neal ...
    An exploration of the changing conceptions of the Space Shuttle program and a call for a new vision of spaceflight.The thirty years of Space Shuttle flights saw contrary changes in American visions of space. Valerie Neal, who has spent much of her career examining the Space Shuttle program, uses this iconic vehicle to question over four decades' worth of thinking about, and struggling with, the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Apollo in the Age of Aquarius

    by Neil M. Maher ...
    In summer 1969, astronauts landed on the moon and hippie hordes descended on Woodstock—two era-defining events that are not entirely coincidental. Neil M. Maher shows how NASA’s celestial aspirations were tethered to terrestrial concerns of the time: the civil rights struggle, the antiwar movement, environmentalism, feminism, and the culture wars. ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Into the Black

    The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her

    by Rowland White ...
    A book “no aviation buff will want to miss” (The Wall Street Journal) and “the perfect tale that educates as it entertains” (Clive Cussler, #1 bestselling author), Into the Black recaptures the historic moments leading up to and the exciting story of the astronauts who flew the daring maiden flight of the space shuttle Columbia.Using interviews, NASA oral histories, and recently declassified ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Apollo 8

    The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon

    by Jeffrey Kluger ...
    The untold story of the historic voyage to the moon that closed out one of our darkest years with a nearly unimaginable triumphIn August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind’s first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, and since then the Apollo program had suffered one setback ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • What Is NASA?

    by Sarah Fabiny, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by Ted Hammond ...
    Series series What Was?
    Find out all about NASA in this out-of-this-world addition to the What Was? series.The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA, began in 1958. With its creation, the United States hoped to ensure it won the space race against the Soviet Union. Author Sarah Fabiny describes the origins of NASA, the launching of the Apollo program that landed the first human on the moon, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD