Space, the Final Frontier?
Space, the Final Frontier?

Author: Giancarlo Genta

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-02-13

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9780521814034

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What are our motivations for going into space? Where does our long-term space future lie? Why, and how, should we strive to reach, if not for the stars, at least for the Moon and Mars? This exciting book looks first at the progress that has already been made in our attempts to explore and expand beyond the Earth. Current and past space technologies and space stations are described, and the effects of the space environment on the human body are explained. A discussion of the merits of the robotic exploration of space is followed by a look at our exploration of the Moon and Mars. Final chapters touch on propulsion methods required for leaving our solar system, and ask which of the possibilities for future space travel is most likely to succeed. This thought provoking book will appeal to all those with an interest in the future of space exploration.

Final Frontier
Final Frontier

Author: David Owen

Publisher: Firefly Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9781552977750

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A young reader's guide to space exploration. Final Frontier is an illustrated guide to the past, present and future of space exploration. The book covers the early history of space flight: from the first unmanned missions, to the early manned flights and finally to the Apollo moon missions. Space program successes and failures are covered including the disasters that befell Apollo 1 and the shuttles Challenger and Columbia. The book explains how deep space is explored today with such sophisticated telescopes and space probes as: Hubble Space Telescope Manned space stations Unmanned probes such as Voyager and Pioneer Space stations such as Mir and Apollo-Soyuz. The proposed International Space Station is described as well as the unique challenges people will encounter in space such as living in a zero-gravity environment. The future of space exploration is discussed including the possibility of alien life on other solar systems. Proposed projects such as an automated lunar mining operation and a scientific base on Mars are also covered. Readers will enjoy Final Frontier for its colorful, abundant illustrations and easy-to-follow text.

Astronauts
Astronauts

Author: Jim Ottaviani

Publisher: First Second

Published: 2020-02-04

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 125077778X

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In the graphic novel Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier, Jim Ottaviani and illustrator Maris Wicks capture the great humor and incredible drive of Mary Cleave, Valentina Tereshkova, and the first women in space. The U.S. may have put the first man on the moon, but it was the Soviet space program that made Valentina Tereshkova the first woman in space. It took years to catch up, but soon NASA’s first female astronauts were racing past milestones of their own. The trail-blazing women of Group 9, NASA’s first mixed gender class, had the challenging task of convincing the powers that be that a woman’s place is in space, but they discovered that NASA had plenty to learn about how to make space travel possible for everyone.

The Final Frontier
The Final Frontier

Author: Neil Clarke

Publisher: Start Publishing LLC

Published: 2018-07-10

Total Pages: 833

ISBN-13: 1597806501

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The vast and mysterious universe is explored in this reprint anthology from award-winning editor and anthologist Neil Clarke (Clarkesworld magazine, The Best Science Fiction of the Year). The urge to explore and discover is a natural and universal one, and the edge of the unknown is expanded with each passing year as scientific advancements inch us closer and closer to the outer reaches of our solar system and the galaxies beyond them. Generations of writers have explored these new frontiers and the endless possibilities they present in great detail. With galaxy-spanning adventures of discovery and adventure, from generations ships to warp drives, exploring new worlds to first contacts, science fiction writers have given readers increasingly new and alien ways to look out into our broad and sprawling universe. The Final Frontier delivers stories from across this literary spectrum, a reminder that the universe is far large and brimming with possibilities than we could ever imagine, as hard as we may try.

Exploring the Final Frontier
Exploring the Final Frontier

Author: Dillon S. Maguire

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781608760800

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An analysis of NASA's plans for continuing human spaceflight after retiring the space shuttle / Congressional Budget Office -- The budgetary implications of NASA's current plans for space exploration / Congressional Budget Office -- NASA : assessments of selected large-scale projects / U.S. Government Accountability Office -- NASA cost management hearing : Scolese testimony / Christopher Scolese -- National Aeronautics and Space Administrations : overview, FY2009 budget, and issues for Congress / Daniel Morgan and Carl E. Behrens -- U.S. civilian space policy priorities : reflections 50 years after Sputnik / Deborah D. Stine.

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

Author: Mary Norris

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2015-04-06

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 0393246604

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New York Times Bestseller Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal "Hilarious…This book charmed my socks off." —Patricia O’Conner, New York Times Book Review Mary Norris has spent more than three decades working in The New Yorker’s renowned copy department, helping to maintain its celebrated high standards. In Between You & Me, she brings her vast experience with grammar and usage, her good cheer and irreverence, and her finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of practical advice.

The Universe Ate My Homework
The Universe Ate My Homework

Author: David Zeltser

Publisher: Carolrhoda Books

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 151241798X

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"Abby really doesn't want to do her homework. So she creates a black hole to swallow it up... but the black hole turns into a baby universe!"--

Apple Pie Fourth of July
Apple Pie Fourth of July

Author: Janet S. Wong

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9780152057084

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A Chinese American child fears that the food her parents are preparing to sell on the Fourth of July will not be eaten.

Space: The Final Frontier Gr. 4-6
Space: The Final Frontier Gr. 4-6

Author: Doug Sylvester

Publisher: Rainbow Horizons Publishing

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 59

ISBN-13: 155319084X

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Students explore the exciting and intriguing world of space. The first section includes lecture style content combined with interesting assignments and activities to build up an information base about galaxies, solar system, planets and gravity. The second section centers around fun activities devoted to space exploration, space menu, parachute making, egg splat competition and how a rocket works. Included is an extensive reproducible student Activity Handbook that contains related assignments that will guarantee that your students get a "blast" out of. This Earth Science lesson provides a teacher and student section with a variety of reading passages, activities, crossword, word search, exam, and answer key to create a well-rounded lesson plan.

C. S. Lewis on the Final Frontier
C. S. Lewis on the Final Frontier

Author: Sanford Schwartz

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-07-02

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0199888396

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Sanford Schwartz offers a penetrating new reading of Lewis's celebrated Space Trilogy. Taken together, Schwartz's readings call into question Lewis's self-styled image as a "dinosaur" out of step with the main currents of modern thought. Far from a simple struggle between an old-fashioned Christian humanism and a newfangled heresy, Lewis's Space Trilogy should be seen as the searching effort of a modern religious apologist to sustain and enrich the former through critical engagement with the latter.