(Hardback)
By: Michael Michaud
ISBN: 9780275921514
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1986
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Reaching for the High Frontier tells the story of the pro-space movement from the end of the moon landing program to the beginning of the space station program. It describes the origins, constituencies, and goals of the various groups in the movement, and reviews their tactics, successes, and the opportunities they may have missed.
(Paperback)
By: David A Clary
ISBN: 9780786887057
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2004
Publisher: Hyperion
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Traces the life and times of American rocket pioneer Robert H. Goddard, describing his essential contributions to the science and technology of the twentieth century, the sometimes turbulent life of the visionary genius, and his pivotal role in launching the Space Age. Reprint. 20,000 first printin
(Hardback)
By: Roger Handberg
ISBN: 9780275962951
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Discusses recent proposals for dramatic policy changes and offers conclusions regarding the implications of such changes with an eye toward their potential to restart the global arms race.
(Hardback)
By: Antony Milne
ISBN: 9780275977498
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Space debris is a growing environmental and space hazard. There could exist in the sky tens of millions of "space objects" measuring one centimetre across or smaller. This title investigates how the satellite industry can be protected from manmade and natural space hazards.
(Hardback)
By: Thomas Gangale
ISBN: 9781440871641
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Marie-Pier Boucher
ISBN: 9781350351028
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Joan Johnson-Freese
ISBN: 9780275958879
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An examination of the state of the U.S. space program as a whole. Part of the authors' treatise is that the two communities must stop ignoring each other if the space program is to become more than just a science project, a jobs program, or a political football.
(Paperback)
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1985
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The authors consider the various criteria applied in selecting astronauts from among military test pilots, scientists, and mission specialists, and demonstrate the scientific and social concerns which led to the policy changes that brought scientific specalists, women, and minorities into the space program.
(Paperback)
By: Adrian D'Amico
ISBN: 9781543956597
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)
By: Chris Jones
ISBN: 9780099513247
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Yet even amid the danger, the call of space is a siren song, and Too Far From Home details beautifully the majesty and mystique of space travel, while reminding us all how perilous it is to soar beyond the sky.
(Paperback, Expanded Edition)
By: Jack B. Zirker
ISBN: 9780691603667
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Eclipses have captured attention and sparked curiosity about the cosmos since the first appearance of humankind. Having been blamed for everything from natural disasters to the fall of kings, they are now invaluable tools for understanding many celestial as well as terrestrial phenomena. This clear, easy-to-understand guide explains what causes tot
(Paperback, Export/Airside)
By: Adriana Marais
ISBN: 9781800819818
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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A theoretical physicist's grand tour of how life emerged on earth and how human civilization will begin expanding beyond our home planet
(Hardback)
By: Matthew Weinzierl
ISBN: 9781647827168
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
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(Hardback, Enlarged Edition)
By: Michael H. Gorn
ISBN: 9780760395073
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2025
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
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From Sputnik 1 to the International Space Station, this revised and expanded edition of Spacecraft examines a vast array of groundbreaking capsules, spaceplanes, rockets, robotics, and stations from throughout aerospace history.
(Paperback)
By: Les Johnson
ISBN: 9780691258683
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Michael D. Leinbach
ISBN: 9781948924610
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Dean Regas
ISBN: 9781507207802
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
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(Hardback)
By: Rolf Fehlbaum
ISBN: 9783945852422
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
Publisher: Vitra Design Museum
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This limited-edition collection of space exploration toysfrom shuttles to space dogstaps into the nostalgia and imagination of 20th-century science fiction
(Paperback)
By: David W. Brown
ISBN: 9780063085572
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Loren Grush
ISBN: 9780349015200
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The remarkable true story of America's first women astronauts - six extraordinary women, each making history going to orbit aboard NASA's Space Shuttle.
(Paperback)
By: Giles Sparrow
ISBN: 9780500293669
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2018
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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One of four titles in Thames & Hudsons innovative new Big Idea series, this well-informed and lucid book takes a comprehensive look at the incredible ideas and possibilities born from the simple question, What shape is space
(Paperback)
By: Dean Regas
ISBN: 9781507205051
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th December 2017
Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
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(Hardback)
By: Roger D. Launius
ISBN: 9781588346490
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
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(Hardback)
By: Nicole Stott
ISBN: 9781541675049
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2021
UK Publication Date: 11th November 2021
Publisher: Basic Books
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Inspired by insights gained on the International Space Station, a NASA astronaut offers essential lessons to empower earthbound readers to fight climate change.
