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"When Jakub Procha is sent into space to examine a cosmic dust cloud covering Venus, it may be a solo suicide mission. Dreaming of becoming a national hero and desperate to atone for his father's sins as a Communist informer, he leaves his beloved wife behind and launches into the galaxy. But things aboard spaceship JanHus1 quickly turn weird, and, to make matters worse, he soon learns that his wife has disappeared without a trace back on Earth. As...
22) Women in space: 23 stories of first flights, scientific missions, and gravity-breaking adventures
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Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Stories of the female pilots, physicists, and doctors who broke the stratospheric ceiling.
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Innovation Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Meet Dr. Ellen Ochoa, a determined space pioneer with a stellar symphony of talents. Growing up in a family of immigrants, Ellen dreamed of becoming a professional flutist, but all of that changed when she discovered engineering in college. Though she was told that field of study wasn't for girls, the bright young scientist refused to give up―ultimately becoming a NASA astronaut who shattered barriers and rocketed to success! The Astronaut...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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2019.
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English
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Decades after her grieving father, a laid-off NASA scientist, triggers chaotic changes in his pursuit of life-extending technology, an astronaut confronts dangerous family secrets to stop a world-threatening crisis.
"From the author of national bestseller The Book of Speculation, a poignant, fantastical novel about the electric combination of ambition and wonder that keeps us reaching toward the heavens. Eleven-year-old Nedda Papas is obsessed with...
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1999
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English
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He was the first astronaut to orbit the Earth. Nearly four decades later, as the world's oldest astronaut, his courage reveted a nation. But these two historical events only bracketed a life that covers the sweep of an extraordinary century.
John Glenn's autobiography spans the seminal events of the twentieth century. It is a story that begins with his childhood in Ohio where he learned the importance of family, community, and patriotism. He took...
John Glenn's autobiography spans the seminal events of the twentieth century. It is a story that begins with his childhood in Ohio where he learned the importance of family, community, and patriotism. He took...
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Hell divers volume 2
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Ten years ago, Hell Diver Xavier "X" Rodriguez fell to Earth. Those he left behind went on without him aboard the airship he once called home. Michael Everhart -- the boy once known as Tin -- has grown into a man and the commander of Hell Diver Raptor Team. While Michael dives to help keep the Hive in the air, Captain Leon Jordan rules with an iron fist at the helm of the ship. But unrest stirs under his strict leadership as a prophecy of hope sweeps...
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Lady astronaut novels volume 1
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2018.
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English
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On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space, and requires a much larger share of humanity to take part in the process. Elma York's experience...
33) Rama revealed
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Rama series volume 4
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1994
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English
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Nicole Wakefield, ex-governor of the colony ofhumans on the spaceship Rama III, is in her cell awaitingdeath for treason. She opposed the colony's new rulers. But Richard, her husband whom she thought dead, sendsrobots to rescue her.
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I Walked on the Moon. This is my journey. It didn't begin when I stepped on board Apollo 11 on July 16, 1969. It began the day I was born -- Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr., whom everyone called Buzz. Becoming an astronaut took more than education, discipline, and physical strength. It took years of determination and believing that any goal is possible -- from riding a bike alone across the George Washington Bridge at age ten to making a footprint on the...
36) To the Moon
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WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2000], c1999
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English
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The story of the Apollo project, the American mission that first put humankind on the moon. Includes interviews with the Apollo designers, the Cape Canaveral ground crew, and the astronauts themselves.
37) Life on Mars
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English
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"A young astronaut is trying to find life on Mars, but he's made a very big oversight"--
38) Delta-V
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"The bestselling author of Daemon returns with a near-future technological thriller, in which a charismatic billionaire recruits a team of adventurers to launch the first deep space mining operation--a mission that could alter the trajectory of human civilization. When itinerant cave diver James Tighe receives an invitation to billionaire Nathan Joyce's private island, he thinks it must be a mistake. But Tighe's unique skill set makes him a prime...
39) Ad astra
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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When a mysterious event in space threatens Earth, an astronaut sets out on a journey to find his long-lost father, who went missing during an expedition to Mars.
40) Voyagers
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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A group of young men and women on a mission to colonize a distant planet find their mission descending into chaos.
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