Author :
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 36,38 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781590784594
Describes the role played by the chimpanzee, Ham, in developing manned space flight in the U.S.
Author : Carrie Waddington Martin
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,46 MB
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 147971061X
From Cameroon to the moon, This is the true story of a young chimpanzee Who becomes the world’s first and most Celebrated Astrochimp! Hams’s 16 minute Flight in January 1961 immediately paved the way of human space flight. This story is exciting, nail-biting and Triumphant. Follow the adventures of Ham as Her successfully goes from tree-tops to astrochimp Training and discovers that life can bring unexpected Adventures. Ham’s message is to embrace change and Thrive: “Don’t be afraid. Life’s a parade. Your Adventures are waiting for you!”
Author : Constantine Georgiou
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Chimpanzees as laboratory animals
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Author : Colin Burgess
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,88 MB
Release : 2007-07-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 0387496785
This 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.
Author : H. A. Rey
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 2009-12-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0547342519
After repeatedly disastrous efforts to get himself out of trouble, George ends up being the first monkey in space.
Author : Colin Burgess
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 29,73 MB
Release : 2013-09-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3319011561
Inevitably, 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.
Author : Joshua Wheeler
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0374714150
A 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.
Author : Melinda Farbman
Publisher : Enslow Publishing
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,38 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766014787
Describes the life of the chimpanzee that was sent into space as part of the American space program, describing his capture, training, the actual flight, and his life afterwards.
Author : Allan Janus
Publisher : Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc.
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 27,30 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781593730482
This 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.
Author : Nancy Leschnikoff
Publisher : Usborne
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 16,69 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780794532352
This lavishly illustrated book is packed with stickers of fabulous fashions throughout history. From Romans in the draped togas, to Elizabethans in lace ruffs and Victorians in tight corsets, find out how styles have changed over the centuries, and who has set the trends.
