Author :
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : H. A. Rey
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 33,78 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 : 436 pages
File Size : 49,41 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 : Colin Burgess
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 27,82 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 : 11,20 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 : Allan Janus
Publisher : Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc.
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 17,48 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 :
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 33,47 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Cemeteries
ISBN : 0865344868
Within this volume's pages, readers will find descriptions and directions to some of New Mexico's unique, sometimes controversial, cemeteries, monuments, and memorials as well as a beginner's guide to geneology. (Environmental Studies)
Author : Patrick Ford
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 36,82 MB
Release : 2021-07-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781839755224
The pugs of Cheese Sandwich, Prime Minister of the United Kakedom, have built a robot labrador to steal the world's tastiest bone.
Author : Dawn Cusick
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,67 MB
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1641608978
Meet Ham, Minnie, Enos, Roscoe, Tiger, and Rocky. When the United States was scrambling to catch up to the Soviets after their successful launch of Sputnik, they didn't turn to Mercury Seven astronauts Alan Shepard and John Glenn. Rather, they began bringing chimpanzees to Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico for a top-secret program. The goal? To do everything America needed to make space travel safe for humans and beat the Soviets. Based on extensive research and interviews with living members of the team of veterinarians, handlers, and psychologists who worked with the animals, The Astrochimps offers a fresh perspective on animal intelligence and the rise of the space age. Detailed back matter provides resources, space mission stats, and calls to action for young readers to honor the astrochimps' legacy and advocate for the humane treatment of chimpanzees today. Vividly depicted at work, at play, in and out of spacecrafts, these chimps played an under-appreciated part in helping the United States win the Space Race.
Author :
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 11,36 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781590782934
On 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.
