Space People from A-Z
Spangenburg, Ray - Moser, Diane
First Edition The dream of moving into space, exploring our Solar System, and the promise of discovering new worlds beyond has long challenged humankind, and the history of modern space exploration has given us an impressive, ongoing legacy of technological achievement, bold experimentation, bravery and pioneering spirit. SPACE PEOPLE-FROM A-Z, the fourth volume in the Facts On File Space Exploration series, describes this legacy, providing clearly written and concise biographies of the international community of visionaries, designers, researchers, astronauts and cosmonauts, astronomers and writers who have contributed to the field of space exploration, all in an easy-to-use dictionary format. In addition to a wealth of factual information, SPACE PEOPLE-FROM A-Z offers fascinating vignettes of courage, creativity, hard work and great determination, in short, "The Right Stuff" - sure to enthrall and inspire the young reader. Among the individuals covered are: • - Sally Ride - the first U.S. woman in space • - Sergei Korolev - the spacecraft designer and rocket engineer who spent several years in the Gulag archipelago because of his pioneering work • - Thomas Paine - former administrator of NASA during the Apollo missions and head of the recent National Commission on Space, which set an ambitious new agenda for the space program on the heels of the 1986 Challenger disaster • - Alexei Leonov - the heroic cosmonaut who took the world’s first space walk from Voskod 2 in 1965 • - Robert Goddard - the father of American rocketry • - Jake Garn - a U.S. senator from Utah, the first politician in space and a test subject for space-sickness experiments • - Scott Crossfield - the first man to fly at twice the speed of sound
hardcover with dust jacket
100 Seiten / pages
many pfotos and illustrations
very good condition
New York - Oxford - Sydney - 1990 - Facts On File
Art.Nr. 26035
