Amazing stories of the space age
true tales of Nazis in orbit soldiers on the moon orphaned martian robots and other fascinating accounts from the annals of spaceflight
Book - 2017
Reveals the most unusual space missions ever devised inside and outside of NASA during a time when nothing was too odd to be taken seriously, and the race to the moon and the threat from the Soviet Union trumped all other considerations. --Publisher.
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Amherst, New York :
Prometheus Books,
2017.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Amazing stories of the space age : |b true tales of Nazis in orbit, soldiers on the moon, orphaned martian robots, and other fascinating accounts from the annals of spaceflight / |c Rod Pyle. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Amherst, New York : |b Prometheus Books, |c 2017. | |
| 300 | |a 341 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations (some color) ; |c 23 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Nazis in space: project silverbird -- Red moon: countering the communist threat on Earth and in space -- Das Marsprojekt: red planet armada -- Project Orion: we come in peace (with nuclear bombs!) -- LUNEX: Earth in the crosshairs -- The wheel: an inflatable space station -- Venusian empire: NASA's Mars/Venus flyby adventure -- Blue gemini: weaponizing orbit -- Flirting with death: the terrifying flight of Gemini 8 -- Manned orbiting laboratory: how to design, test, and never fly a space program -- Apollo 11: danger on the moon -- The first space shuttle: project dyna-soar -- Beyond the edge of space: the X-15B -- The sad, strange tale of Soyuz 1 -- The turtlenauts -- Falling to earth: the dangerous science of reentry -- Funeral for a viking: the end of Viking 1 -- Saving skylab: cowboys in space -- Near misses: danger stalks the space shuttle -- Showdown in space: firearms on the moon -- Buran: the Soviet Union's one-flight wonder -- Major Matt Mason: a man for the new space age. | |
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