Women Astronauts is a fun, inspirational book for girls, young women and anyone interested in space exploration and what it's like to be an astronaut. It contains biographies and color photos of all of the living women astronauts from around the world. Includes bonus CD-ROM.
Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) final report, August 2003 - The Gehman Board Report to NASA on the Space Shuttle Programme.
Features reviews and recollections of several rarities and monster catalogues from '80s bands. This work re-evaluates the classics and adds some trivia titbits. It also includes a CD of Eighties Rarities.
Based on an imaginary trip to space with America's and Canada's school children, this book presents a collection of children's questions about travelling to and living in space. It includes 94 different categories of questions, answered by internationally recognised experts including astronauts, educators, astronomers, doctors, and engineers.
If you have an interest in understandin the universe, this book is a good place to start; it covers everything from atomic physics to astronomy, with colourful graphics and easy to understand text.
Readers will gain the most comprehensive view available on what President Bush's new space vision will do for human exploration of the Solar System-and how nearly everything NASA does will change as a result.
Attempts to reveal the truth about romantic rendezvous in Earth's orbit and beyond as well as the advantages and difficulties of having sex in space. From chemistry to psychology, this exploration runs the reproductive and sexual gamut, from lust and sexual mechanics to conception, pregnancy, and birth in low-gravity situations.
Taken directly from the NASA archives, this work presents the details of the Mercury-Atlas 8 mission, the overall Project Mercury game plan, and the people who made the mission a complete success.
Chronicles all of the details of the space shuttle Columbia's first five flights.
An in-depth reference work covering the people, places, and history of the musical group Pink Floyd. From the earliest days of the band, this book explains band relationships, from The Abdabs to Zee.
The highly detailed graphic images of the Apollo Lunar Module (LM) leap from the page and pull the reader in to another world in another time. The LM proved to be a milestone in human innovation and engineering excellence.
Deals with Beatles books. With thousands of listings, this title includes books by the band, about the band and featuring the band, as well as the better reproductions of their music in print.
Is the story of the Atlas rocket, America's first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), and workhorse of the civil and military apace programs since the late 1950s, covering its military career from conception, and its role in America's space programs to the present day.
Told through the reflections of the author, prompted by events that occurred during two space shuttle missions as a NASA astronaut aboard the shuttles Endeavour and Columbia. Taking the reader into space, he attempts to share experiences that drove him to overcome obstacles and become the one who journeyed beyond the bonds of earth into space.