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By: Dennis R Jenkins
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This is the eighty year history of developing reusable lifting--reentry spacecraft. From the early works of Eugen Sanger in Germany to the Cold War developments in the United States, and finally to the ultimate experiment--the Space Shuttle. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first Space Shuttle launch, this greatly enlarged third edition adds many previously uncovered early designs, details the latest modifications to the operational vehicles, and provides expanded coverage of the first 100 Space Shuttle missions.
By: Jeffrey Zuehlke
List Price: $6.95
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Perfect for young, curious minds
We bought this for our preschool grandson who was really into rockets and space ships and count downs. His favorite toy was a die cast space shuttle. The book put it all together with real photographs and simple text that explained and labeled everything. After we read it through to him several times, he could point out all the parts on his shuttle and was able to explain many of parts and what they did. The readability level of the book along with the emphasis on highlighting and explaining one thing per page is ideal for this age. I can't wait to get him more books from this series.
By: Kerry Mark Joels
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Welcome Aboard!
You are about to embark on a spectacular adventure, blazing a trail for future space travel in the world's greatest flying machine.
Prepare for lift-off using the step-by-step instructions for launch and ascent. Soar into the sky consulting the authentic gatefold reproduction of the Shuttle's instrument panel. Operate the remote manipulator arm, the space telescope, and the data relay satellite as you communicate with ground control. Chart your space flight using the authentic fold-out orbital map. Hurtle back through the Earth's atmosphere to land the aircraft gently like a glider.
Congratulations! We hope your mission is rewarding and fascinating!
Sincerely,
Directorate for Crew Training
Written for the layperson by curators at the National Air and Space Museum, with colorful illustrations throughout, THE SPACE SHUTTLE OPERATOR'S MANUAL takes the reader through all the motions of an actual mission -- from preparation to takeoff to orbit to re-entry.
By: Pat Duggins
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"Pat Duggins knows of what he writes. Final Countdown is a solid read."--Jay Barbree, NBC's veteran space correspondent and author of the New York Times bestseller Moon Shot
The Space Shuttle was once the cornerstone of the U.S. space program. However, each new flight brings us one step closer to the retirement of the shuttle in 2010. Final Countdown is the riveting history of NASA's Space Shuttle program, its missions, and its impending demise. It also examines the plans and early development of the space agency's next major effort: the Orion Crew Exploration Capsule.
Journalist Pat Duggins, National Public Radio's resident "space expert," chronicles the planning stages of the shuttle program in the early 1970s, the thrills of the first flight in 1981, construction of the International Space Station in the 1990s, and the decision in the early 2000s to shut it down.
As a rookie reporter visiting the Kennedy Space Center hangar to view the Challenger wreckage, Duggins was in a unique position to offer a poignant eyewitness account of NASA's first shuttle disaster. In Final Countdown, he recounts the agency's struggle to rebound after the Challenger and Columbia tragedies, and explores how politics, scientific entrepreneurship, and the human drive for exploration have impacted the program in sometimes unexpected ways.
Duggins has covered eighty-six shuttle missions, and his twenty-year working relationship with NASA has given him unprecedented access to personnel. Many spoke openly and frankly with him, including veteran astronaut John Young, who discusses the travails to get the shuttle program off the ground. Young's crewmate, astronaut Bob Crippen, reveals the frustration and loss he felt when his first opportunity to go into space on the first planned space station was taken away.
As the shuttle program winds down, more astronauts may face similar disappointments. Final Countdown is a story of lost dreams, new hopes, and the ongoing conquest of space.
By: Mark Lardas
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The Space Shuttle is one of the oldest and most famous manned launch systems â?" the only launch vehicle that has been used for a longer period of time is the Soviet (now Russian) R-7 booster. By the start of the third millennium, the Space Shuttle had carried crews into space over 85 times. Although not a military structure, the Shuttle had been sold as an all-purpose launch system to be used jointly for military and civilian purposes. Featuring full-colour photos throughout, this book covers the design, development and operational history of a unique vehicle.
By: Carmen Bredeson
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From friendly dolphins to giant pandas, from icebergs and glaciers to energy from the sun, from magnets to solids, liquids, and gases, Rookie Read-About Science is a natural addition to the primary-grade classroom with books that cover every part of the science curricula. Includes: animals, nature, scientific principles, the environment, weather, and much more!
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Educating kids with fabulous anthropomorphic animals
Richard Scarry's world of anthropomorphic animals have enterntained and educated kids for generations. Scarry educates children with a variety of fun themes that kids can relate to and enjoy.
In this book, Scarry takes us on 4 mini-adventures with two of his best loved characters, Huckle Cat and Lowly Worm.
Kids learn here how a Space Shuttle works, about how to some basic First Aid, what lies underneath manholes and the process of mailing a letter.
All children should live and learn with Richard Scarry.
This ecucation series is called Lowly Worm's How, Why and Where Books.
By: Ben Evans
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On February 1st 2003, one of the worst and most public disasters ever witnessed in the human space programme unfolded with horrifying suddenness in the skies above north central Texas. The Space Shuttle Columbia ? the world?s first truly reusable manned spacecraft ? was lost during her return to Earth, along with a crew of seven. It was an event that, after the loss of Space Shuttle Challenger during a launch 17 years before, the world had hoped it would never see again. This book details each of Columbia?s 28 missions in turn, as told by scientists and researchers who developed and supported her many payloads, by the engineers who worked on her and by the astronauts who flew her. In doing so, it is intended to provide a fitting tribute to this most remarkable flying machine and those who perished on her last mission.
By: David M. Harland
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In spite of the Challenger and Columbia disasters, the US Space Shuttle, which entered service in 1981, remains the most successful spacecraft ever developed. Conceived and designed as a reusable spacecraft to provide cheap access to low Earth orbit, and to supersede expendable launch vehicles, serving as the National Space Transportation System, it now coexists with a new range of commercial rockets. David Harland?s definitive work on the Space Shuttle explains the scientific contribution the Space Shuttle has made to the international space programme, detailing missions to Mir, Hubble and more recently its role in the assembly of the International Space Station. This substantial revision to existing chapters and extension of ?The Space Shuttle?, following the loss of Columbia, will include a comprehensive account of the run-up to resumption of operations and conclude with a chapter beyond the Shuttle, looking at possible future concepts for a partly or totally reusable space vehicle which are being considered to replace the Shuttle.
By: Philip S. Harrington
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With one hundred full-color photographs by Roger Ressmeyer and others and with text by popular astronomy writer Phil Harrington, "The Space Shuttle: A Photographic History" tells the fascinating and inspiring story of the space shuttle program from 1972 to 2003.
In over a hundred missions aboard six different shuttles, hundreds of astronauts from around the world have conducted thousands of space experiments and thrilled us with their orbital exploits.
For the first time, a beautiful photographic book allows the general reader to survey the history of the space shuttle program and be uplifted by the pioneering spirit of one of humanity's grandest enterprises.
• Chinese American Hero: Wen Tsing Chow
This is Week 16 of AsianWeek?s salute to Chinese American heroes, in strategic partnership with Chinese American Heroes, a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to documenting the contributions of Chinese Americans to America and the world. In celebration of our Independence Day on July 4th we will be highlighting some of our veterans and others who have made major contributions to America?s national defense as well as the protection of our liberties and freedom. We lead off with someone w
• Report: Study Finds Ares Alternative Viable and Affordable
Space Flight panel study finds alternative rocket ?capable? Orlando Sentinel A study done by NASA engineers at various agency centers on behalf of the U.S. Human Space Flight Review Committee has found that shuttle program manager John Shannon?s alternative to the Constellation rockets is capable and affordable. (...) Read the rest of Report: Study Finds Ares Alternative Viable and Affordable (108 words) © Douglas for Parabolic Arc , 2009. | Permalink | No comment | Add to
• Fly Society - Fly With Us Or Lie Beneath Us
Fly Society - Fly With Us Or Lie Beneath Us Tracklist 01. Intro 02. The Takeover 03. Get Rich 04. Professional 05. Mean Wit It (feat. Ras) 06. Space Shuttle 07. Supras 08. Shout Out To 09. Stop Frontin (FS Gunnerz) 10. Turn?t Up (RAAO) 11. Swagga 12. Drama 13. You Know What It Is 14. Super Starz 15. Gimmie That (feat. Mecca Dawn) 16. Step Yall Swag Up 17. Fresh 18. Get It Girl 19. Run Way 20. What Cha Face Look Like 21. Over Prepared 22. We Winning (feat. Jay Rock
• Space Flight panel study finds alternative rocket "capable"
A study done by NASA engineers at various agency centers on behalf of the U.S. Human Space Flight Review Committee has found that shuttle program manager John Shannon's alternative to the Constellation rockets is capable and affordable. The alternative rocket...
• Shocking: Islam investigator ejected from D.C. Muslim conference
Illegally detained: ?CAIR and ISNA essentially tried to get me killed? WASHINGTON ? With a high-profile Christian keynote speaker, Rick Warren, the Islamic Society of North America billed its July 4 national convention here as a major outreach to non-Muslims, but it chose to eject by force an American investigating Islamist radicalism in the U.S. Dave Gaubatz, a former Air Force special agent who has traveled the country investigating radical Islamist mosques and attempts at imposing Sharia
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