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Space stations and beyond / by Hamilton, John,1959-author.(CARDINAL)375866;
The cost of the Space Race for both the United States and the Soviet Union was immense, but many technology advancements resulted, including satellite communications and GPS navigation. With so much invested, both countries continued their space exploration efforts, even cooperating on some projects, such as the International Space Station. This title will examine the Skylab and Mir space stations, both nations' space shuttle efforts, and space exploration probes, leading to today's international cooperation between space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, and others.990L
Subjects: Mir (Space station); Astronauts; Manned space flight; Soyuz spacecraft; Extraterrestrial bases; Space stations; Large space structures (Astronautics);
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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NASA, the complete story by Total Content (Firm)(DLC)nr2004010791;
"Experience man's journey to the surface of the moon all over again, with this stellar collection of historical films and profiles of the men and women behind the scenes. It's one of the 20th century's greatest stories, and every moment--rom the early ambitious concepts and Kennedy's bold promise to the incredible 'giant leap for mankind'--s all here. NASA: The Complete Story also takes you through the space program's other great triumphs (and, yes, tragedies), including the Mercury and Gemini missions, the space shuttles, Skylab and more."--Publisher's description.DVD; double-sided.
Subjects: Documentary films.; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Project Mercury (U.S.); Friendship 7 (Spacecraft); Apollo 11 (Spacecraft); Apollo 13 (Spacecraft); Viking Mars Program (U.S.); Apollo Soyuz Test Project.; Columbia (Spacecraft); Astronautics; Manned space flight; Astronauts;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Spacecraft / by Owen, Ruth,1967-(CARDINAL)300402;
Includes bibliographical references (page 32) and index.Spacecraft have a very important job transporting people between Earth and space. Readers explore the history of this mode of transportation, including the spacecraft that brought people to the moon and the Soyuz spacecraft that carry astronauts today. This information is presented to readers through engaging main text and fun fact boxes, which provide additional details about this topic. Readers also learn about the future of space exploration, including spacecraft that could one day take people to Mars. Colorful photographs of spacecraft in action make this an out-of-this-world reading experience!3456690P
Subjects: Space vehicles;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Astronaut in training / by Clay, Kathryn,author.(CARDINAL)492562;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Want to go to space? Before launch, you've got some work to do! Find out what scuba diving, medical skills, and survival training all have to do with being an astronaut.Ages 7-9.K to grade 3.620LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Astronauts;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Disaster strikes! : the most dangerous space missions of all time / by Kluger, Jeffrey,author.(CARDINAL)318697;
The tale of the sinking spacecraft : Liberty Bell, 1961 -- Spin-out in space : Gemini 8, 1966 -- The no-good, terrible, horrible spacewalk : Gemini 9, 1966 -- The fire : Apollo 1, 1967 -- The unlucky mission of Soyuz 1 : Soyuz 1, 1967 -- Spin-out at the moon : Apollo 10, 1969 -- The moon trip and the lightning strike : Apollo 12, 1969 -- Apollo 13 behind the scenes : Apollo 13, 1970 -- The three lost cosmonauts : Soyuz 11, 1971 -- The lost teacher : Challenger, 1986 -- Crack-up in orbit : Mir Space Station, 1997 -- The astronaut who almost drowned in space : International Space Station, 2013."A collection of stories about space missions gone wrong."--Ages 8-12.Grades 4 to 6.NC1190LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Space vehicle accidents; Manned space flight;
Available copies: 24 / Total copies: 29
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Disaster strikes! : the most dangerous space missions of all time / by Kluger, Jeffrey,author.;
The tale of the sinking spacecraft : Liberty Bell 7, 1961 -- Spinout in space : Gemini 8, 1966 -- The terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad space walk : Gemini 9, 1966 -- The fire : Apollo 1, 1967 -- The unlucky mission of Soyuz 1 : Soyuz 1, 1967 -- Tumbling moonship : Apollo 10, 1969 -- The moon trip and the lightning strike : Apollo 12, 1969 -- Explosion in space : Apollo 13, 1970 -- The three lost cosmonauts : Soyuz 11, 1971 -- The lost teacher : Challenger, 1986 -- Crack-up in orbit : Mir Space Station, 1997 -- The astronaut who almost drowned in space : International Space Station, 2013."A collection of stories about space missions gone wrong."--Ages 8-12.Grades 4 to 6.
Subjects: Juvenile works.; Informational works.; Illustrated works.; History.; Juvenile works.; Informational works.; Illustrated works.; Space vehicle accidents; Manned space flight; Space vehicle accidents.; Manned space flight; Astronautics; Space shuttles; Space shuttles; Space race.; Space flight to the moon.; Astronautics; Astronautics.; Exploration of outer space.; Manned space flight.; Space vehicle accidents.;
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The White House tapes : eavesdropping on the President / by Prados, John.(CARDINAL)161161;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-331).CONTENTS OF CDs. Disc 1. Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower -- Discs 2-3. Kennedy -- Discs 4-5. Johnson -- Disc 6-7. Nixon -- Disc 8. Ford and Reagan -- Disc 9. Documentary disc: Introduction, Kennedy; Johnson; Nixon, Conclusion.Franklin D. Roosevelt -- September 27, 1940: President Roosevelt meets with African American leaders -- October 4, 1940: President Roosevelt meets with Speaker Sam Rayburn and Representative John McCormick -- Harry S. Truman -- Unknown dates, 1947-48: President Truman, telephone conversations -- Dwight D. Eisenhower -- January 7, 1955: President Eisenhower meets with Senator Walter George on the Bricker Amendment -- John F. Kennedy -- August 28, 1963: President Kennedy meets with civil rights leaders -- October 29, 1963: President Kennedy meets with his National Security Council on the question of supporting a coup in South Vietnam -- Lyndon B. Johnson -- March 2, 1964: President Johnson discusses Vietnam with Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara -- March 4, 1964: President Johnso discusses Vietnam with State Department policy planner Walt W. Rostow -- March 4, 1964: President Johnson discusses Vietnam and his Rostow conversation with National Security advisor McGeorge Bundy -- June 9, 1964: President Johnson discusses Vietnam with Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara -- June 23, 1964: President Johnson discusses the investigation of deaths of three civil rights workers in Mississippi with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (in two conversations) -- August 3,1964: President Johnson discusses an incident in the Gulf of Tonkin with Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara (in two conversations) -- August 4, 1964: The Gulf of Tonkin incident continues--President Johnson discusses bombing North Vietnam with Robert S. McNamara (in four conversations) -- August 4, 1964: FBI finds the bodies of slain civil rights workers--President Johnson discusses events with FBI Deputy Director "Deke" DeLoach, political advisor Lee White, and Mississippi Governor Paul Johnson ( in four conversations, interrupted by another call from Robert S. McNamara) -- August 4, 1964: The Gulf of Tonkin incident continues--President Johnson discusses U.S. retaliation with Defens Secretary Robert S. McNamara -- August 4, 1964: Conversations about the slain civil rights workers continued -- Richard M. Nixon -- March 26, 1971: President Nixon meets with his National Security Council on Vietnam, the invasion of Laos, and other issues in the war -- February 1, 1972: President Nixon meets with evangelist Billy Graham -- June 23, 1972: President Nixon holds meetings with White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman on handling the Watergate break-in controversy--the "smoking gun" tape (in three conversations) -- Gerald R. Ford -- July 17, 1975: President Ford talks to American and Russian astronauts aboard the docked Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft on a joint orbital mission -- September 1, 1975: President Ford discusses Middle East truce agreements with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat -- Ronald Reagan -- November 25, 1986: President Reagan's public statement accepting the resignation of National Security advisor Admiral John Poindexter over the Iran-Contra affair -- December 1, 1986: President Reagan makes opening remarks at the initial meeting of the Special Review Board (Tower Commission) created to review White House participation in the Iran-Contra affair -- December 2, 1986: President Reagan's address to the nation on the Iran-Contra affair -- December 4, 1986: President Reagan makes remarks and answers a few questions from reporters at his first meeting with new National Security advisor Frank C. Carlucci -- December 6, 1986: President Reagan makes new explanations of the Iran-Contra affair in a weekend radio speech.Contains complete transcripts of recorded phone conversations by presidents as they shaped historic events of the 20th century. Includes historical prefaces to each conversation offering context and identifying participants, and an extended introduction by John Prados telling the complete story of presidential recordings.
Subjects: Sound recordings.; White House (Washington, D.C.); Presidents; Audiotapes.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Frozen orbit / by Chiles, Patrick,author.;
"When a tiny space probe hurtled past Pluto in 2015, no one could know that its most amazing discovery would remain hidden for years. Only when a long-lost Soyuz is destroyed in the skies above Siberia does the truth begin to emerge. About to embark on NASA's first expedition to the outer planets, the crew of the spacecraft Magellan learns someone else has beaten them by a few decades: a top-secret Soviet project codenamed Arkangel. It was a mission that began before most of them were even born, and the Kremlin believes it drove their most trusted crew mad. During their long race to the Kuiper Belt, astronauts Jack Templeton and Traci Keene unwind a decades-old mystery buried in the pages of a dead cosmonaut's journal. Challenging their own beliefs about the nature of humanity, they will soon confront the question of existence itself"--
Subjects: Science fiction.; Action and adventure fiction.; Novels.; Interplanetary voyages; Space flight; Space probes;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The art of NASA : the illustrations that sold the missions / by Bizony, Piers,author.;
Formed in 1958, NASA has long maintained a department of visual artists to depict the concepts and technologies created in humankind's quest to explore the final frontier. Culled from a carefully chosen reserve of approximately 3,000 files deep in the NASA archives, the 200 artworks presented in this large-format edition provide a glimpse of NASA history like no other. From space suits to capsules, from landing modules to the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station, and more recent concepts for space planes, The Art of NASA presents 60 years of American space exploration in an unprecedented fashion. All the landmark early missions are represented in detail--Gemini, Mercury, Apollo--as are post-Space Race accomplishments, like the mission to Mars and other deep-space explorations. The insightful text relates the wonderful stories associated with the art. For instance, the incredibly rare early Apollo illustrations show how Apollo might have looked if the landing module had never been developed. Black-and-white Gemini drawings illustrate how the massive NASA art department did its stuff with ink pen and rubdown Letraset textures. Cross-sections of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project docking adapter reveal Russian sensitivity about US "male" probes "penetrating" their spacecraft, thus the androgynous "adapter" now used universally in space. International Space Station cutaways show how huge the original plan was, but also what was retained. Every picture in The Art of NASA tells a special story. This collection of the rarest of the rare is not only a unique view of NASA history--it's a fascinating look at the art of illustration, the development of now-familiar technologies, and a glimpse of what the space program might have looked like.
Subjects: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.; Space flights; Space shuttles;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Brick by brick : space / by Elsmore, Warren,author.(CARDINAL)608520;
The Solar System: The Moon ; The Earth ; Saturn's Rings -- Telescopes: Hubble ; James Webb -- Probes: Viking 1 Orbiter ; Voyager II ; Cassini ; Rosetta ; Mars Curiosity Rover -- Mission to the Moon: Lunar Command Module ; Lunar lander -- Rockets and space places: Soyuz Lifter ; Ariane Rocket ; Vostok 1 Rocket ; Saturn V Rocket ; Long March Rocket ; Delta IV Rocket ; Shuttle Orbiter -- Humans living in space: ISS ; MIR -- Astronauts: Astronaut -- Civilian travel: Whiteknighttwo ; Spaceshiptwo -- The future.Provides step-by-step instructions for creating over twenty space theme LEGO projects, including spacecrafts, probes, and planets.
Subjects: LEGO toys; Models and modelmaking;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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