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"Recently declassified documents reveal NASA's ambitious plans of going far beyond the moon were in the works as early as the 1950s -- 'Mars by 1965, Saturn by 1970'. Discover the surprising details behind this ground-breaking effort with fascinating insights from the brilliant physicists who were instrumental to deep-space projects that were top secret ... until just recently"--Container.
83) The space race
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Astronauts and cosmonauts were the heroes of a 20th Century battle without weapons the race for global dominance in space. The Space Race explores how the quest to put a man on the moon fueled fast-paced scientific research and kept the world occupied with more peaceful pursuits at a time when the world seemed to be on the edge of nuclear annihilation. Readers will learn how to examine primary and secondary source materials, which reveal the political...
84) Man on the moon
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Disc 1. This disc covers the pre-launch preparations for the flight and moon landing by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. It goes on to cover the subsequent landings on the moon and includes the Apollo 13 rescue and the first launch of the shuttle Columbia. Disc 2. The 40th anniversary edition includes the history of NASA, an introduction to the people who made the Mercury and Apollo programs possible, an inside look at the Apollo mission and an additional...
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"This is the story of the work of the original NASA space pioneers; men and women who were suddenly organized in 1958 from the then National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) into the Space Task Group. A relatively small group, they developed the initial mission concept plans and procedures for the U.S. space program. Then they boldly built hardware and facilities to accomplish those missions. The group existed only three years before they...
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Astronauts: Project Mercury, one of America's greatest milestones in the space race, served as the stepping stone for our knowledge of manned space flight. One of the earliest NASA edited films, this film documents the selection of the original 7 astronauts for the famed project. Watch as Slayton, Glenn, Shepard, Schirra, Grissom, Cooper and Carpenter undergo rigorous testing and training, both psychological and physical, to be among the first men...
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"Space Age Adventures is a guidebook which combines short entertaining stories from spaceflight history with more than 100 adventurous activities/sites across the U.S., including outdoor astronaut training locations, air & space museums, and historic sites for space enthusiasts to visit"--
"When people think about space travel, they usually look skyward. But much of spaceflight history happened down here on Earth. Space Age Adventures presents more...
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