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Space for Women: A History of Women With the Right Stuff. Santa Ana, California: Seven Locks Press. ISBN 978-1-931643-12-2. Gainor, Chris (2001). Arrows to the Moon: Avro's Engineers and the Space Race. Burlington, Ontario: Apogee Books. ISBN 978-1-896522-83-8. Gatland, Kenneth (1976). Manned Spacecraft, Second Revision.
The Right Stuff is a 1979 book by Tom Wolfe about the pilots engaged in U.S. postwar research with experimental rocket-powered, high-speed aircraft as well as documenting the stories of the first astronauts selected for the NASA's Project Mercury program.
In this timeline, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was not assassinated, and the space race continued apace. In 1987, a Third World War breaks out between the United States and North Korea, causing widespread devastation, but limited harm. (International expenditure on the space race had diminished the intensity of that nuclear arms race.)
Space Race, the Cold War geopolitical rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union in space primacy Moon Race, the race to have the first human landing on the Moon; Mars race, the rivalry between teams to put the first humans on or about the planet Mars; Billionaire space race, the entrepreneurial rivalry for private spaceflight ...
Beyond: Our Future in Space is a non-fiction book by astronomy professor Chris Impey on the history and future of human exploration of space. The book starts with a discussion of the human urge to explore, which led us to fan out over the Earth soon after leaving Africa. This urge may have a gene associated with it. [1]
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race is a 2018 picture book by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling, illustrated by Laura Freeman. The picture book is adapted from Shetterly's 2016 non-fiction book Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race ...
Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery is a 2017 memoir by American astronaut Scott Kelly and Margaret Lazarus Dean. The book details Kelly's life, as well as that of his twin brother Mark , as they became naval aviators and test pilots , and were both selected for NASA Astronaut Group 16 .
Wernher von Braun's space station concept (1952) Although Germans, Americans and Soviets experimented with small liquid-fuel rockets before World War II, launching satellites and humans into space required the development of larger ballistic missiles such as Wernher von Braun's Aggregat-4 (A-4), which became known as the Vergeltungswaffe 2 (V-2) developed by Nazi Germany to bomb the Allies in ...