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The Tetris Effect: An Urban Fantasy Thriller (Tetris Trilogy #1)
★★★★★ "For a first book and the beginning of a trilogy, it was very well executed. I will definitely be checking out the next book in this series." - Jessica Bronder. Book …
NASA's Scientist-Astronauts
Mounting pressure in the early 1960s from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to study ways of expanding the role of astronauts to conduct science on future space missions led …
Selecting the Mercury Seven
The names of the seven Mercury astronauts were announced in April 1959 amid a flurry of publicity and patriotism. This work provides biographical details of all thirty-two …
The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team
The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team will relate who these men were and offer far more extensive background stories, in addition to those of the more familiar names of early Soviet …
Interkosmos
This book focuses on the Interkosmos program, which was formed in 1967, marking a fundamentally new era of cooperation by socialist countries, led by the Soviet Union, in the study …
Liberty Bell 7
NASA’s Mercury astronauts were seven highly skilled professional test pilots. Each of them seemed to possess the strength of character and commitment necessary to overcome …
Upland Settlement in Britain
Animals in Space
Many readers will doubtless be astonished to learn that animals were being fired aloft in U.S. and Soviet research rockets in the late 1940s. In fact most people not only believe …
NASA's First Space Shuttle Astronaut Selection
Unofficially they called themselves the TFNG, or the Thirty-Five New Guys. Officially, they were NASA’s Group 8 astronauts, selected in January 1978 to train for orbital missions …
Moon Bound
Often lost in the shadow of the first group of astronauts for the Mercury missions, the second and third groups included the leading figures for NASA's activities for the following …