Ham, the Astrochimp
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Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9781590784594
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the role played by the chimpanzee, Ham, in developing manned space flight in the U.S.
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Animals in Space
Author: Colin Burgess
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-07-05
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 0387496785
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is as a detailed, but highly readable and balanced account of the history of animal space flights carried out by all nations, but principally the United States and the Soviet Union. It explores the ways in which animal high-altitude and space flight research impacted on space flight biomedicine and technology, and how the results - both successful and disappointing - allowed human beings to then undertake that same hazardous journey with far greater understanding and confidence. This complete and authoritative book will undoubtedly become the ultimate authority on animal space flights.
Curious George Gets a Medal
Author: H. A. Rey
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2009-12-15
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 0547342519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter repeatedly disastrous efforts to get himself out of trouble, George ends up being the first monkey in space.
Freedom 7
Author: Colin Burgess
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-09-27
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 3319011561
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInevitably, there are times in a nation’s history when its hopes, fears and confidence in its own destiny appear to hinge on the fate of a single person. One of these pivotal moments occurred on the early morning of May 5, 1961, when a 37-year-old test pilot squeezed himself into the confines of the tiny Mercury spacecraft that he had named Freedom 7. On that historic day, U.S. Navy Commander Alan Shepard carried with him the hopes, prayers, and anxieties of a nation as his Redstone rocket blasted free of the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, hurling him upwards on a 15-minute suborbital flight that also propelled the United States into the bold new frontier of human space exploration. This book tells the enthralling story of that pioeering flight as recalled by many of the participants in the Freedom 7 story, including Shepard himself, with anecdotal details and tales never before revealed in print. Although beaten into space just three weeks earlier by the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Alan Shepard’s history-making mission aboard Freedom 7 nevertheless provided America’s first tentative step into space that would one day see its Apollo astronauts – including Alan Shepard – walk on the Moon.
Acid West
Author: Joshua Wheeler
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2018-04-17
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0374714150
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA rollicking debut book of essays that takes readers on a trip through the muck of American myths that have settled in the desert of our country’s underbelly Early on July 16, 1945, Joshua Wheeler’s great grandfather awoke to a flash, and then a long rumble: the world’s first atomic blast filled the horizon north of his ranch in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Out on the range, the cattle had been bleached white by the fallout. Acid West, Wheeler’s stunning debut collection of essays, is full of these mutated cows: vestiges of the Old West that have been transformed, suddenly and irrevocably, by innovation. Traversing the New Mexico landscape his family has called home for seven generations, Wheeler excavates and reexamines these oddities, assembling a cabinet of narrative curiosities: a man who steps from the stratosphere and free-falls to the desert; a treasure hunt for buried Atari video games; a village plagued by the legacy of atomic testing; a showdown between Billy the Kid and the author of Ben-Hur; a UFO festival during the paranoid Summer of Snowden. The radical evolution of American identity, from cowboys to drone warriors to space explorers, is a story rooted in southern New Mexico. Acid West illuminates this history, clawing at the bounds of genre to reveal a place that is, for better or worse, home. By turns intimate, absurd, and frightening, Acid West is an enlightening deep-dive into a prophetic desert at the bottom of America.
Animals Aloft
Author: Allan Janus
Publisher: Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9781593730482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the visual history and annecdotal story of the mascots, pets, companions and best friends that have made up a whole side of air history retrieved from legendary archives of the National Air & Space Museum.
Tales of Two Naughty Pugs
Author: Patrick Ford
Publisher:
Published: 2021-07-07
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9781839755224
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe pugs of Cheese Sandwich, Prime Minister of the United Kakedom, have built a robot labrador to steal the world's tastiest bone.
Thing
Author: David Walliams
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
Published: 2021-02-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780008349110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe jaw-achingly funny children's book from No. 1 bestselling author David Walliams - a deliciously daft Tall Story of a child who had everything, but still wanted more. Illustrated by artistic genius, Tony Ross. Meet the Meeks! Myrtle Meek has everything she could possibly want. But everything isn't enough. She wants more, more, MORE! When Myrtle declares she wants a FING, there's only one problem... What is a FING? Mr and Mrs Meek will do anything to keep their darling daughter happy, even visit the spooky library vaults to delve into the dusty pages of the mysterious Monsterpedia. Their desperate quest leads to the depths of the jungliest jungle where the rarest creatures can be found. But will they ever find a FING? An explosively funny, totally surreal Tall Story about two perfectly nice parents and their unbelievably monstrous daughter from the phenomenal bestselling author David Walliams.
Neil, Buzz, and Mike Go to the Moon
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Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 9781590782934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy set a goal for the nation: to put a man on the moon before the end of the decade. Eight years later, on July 20, 1969, the world heard Neil Armstrong announce, "The "Eagle has landed." Here is the exciting story of "Apollo 11 and the three men who made the historic flight to the moon: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins. When they were boys, each had dreamed of flying planes. Their dreams came true when they joined the United States military, flying and testing new types of aircraft. Finally, they became members of a select group of flyers called the Astronaut Corps, which would venture into space. From Project Mercury, whose goal was to put a single astronaut in orbit, to Project Apollo, whose goal was to put an astronaut on the moon, Richard Hilliard's lively picture book, featuring, a simple text, bold illustrations, and informative sidebars, follows the inspiring journey of three genuine heroes.
Captain Underpants: Two Turbo-Charged Novels in One (Full Colour!)
Author: Dav Pilkey
Publisher:
Published: 2021-01-07
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780702306778
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTWO CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS ADVENTURES NOW IN FULL COLOUR! George and Harold have created the greatest superhero in the history of their school - and now they're about to bring him to life! MEET CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS! HIS TRUE IDENTITY IS SO SECRET, EVEN HE DOESN'T KNOW WHO HE IS! FIGHTING FOR TRUTH, JUSTICE AND ALL THINGS PRE-SHRUNK AND COTTONY!
