Men first flew into space in 1961, but until The Right Stuff was first published in 1979 few people had a sense of the most engrossing side of that adventure: namely, the perceptions and goals of the astronauts themselves, aloft and during certain remarkable odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner world of the early astronauts, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and their confreres, that Tom Wolfe describes with his extraordinary powers of empathy....

Describes rockets, exploratory vehicles, and other technological aspects of space exploration, satellites, space stations, and the life and work of astronauts.

The Department of Defense is reorganizing the national security space structure and enhancing space capabilities. There are many discussions and studies taking place to identify what this enterprise will do and how it will be structured, but in Colorado we believe one thing is clear: Colorado is the right home for Department of Defense space assets now and into the future.

Author Craig Nelson restores the mystery and majesty to an event that may have become too familiar for most people to realize what a stunning achievement it represented in planning, technology, and execution. Through interviews, 23,000 pages of NASA oral histories, and declassified CIA documents on the space race, Nelson creates a vivid and detailed account of the Apollo 11 mission. From the quotidian to the scientific to the magical, readers are...

"A towering epic to rank with Douglas Preston's Blasphemy and Michael Crichton's Prey... Pandemic drought, skyrocketing oil prices, dwindling energy supplies and wars of water scarcity threaten the planet. Only four people can prevent global chaos. Gary Morgan--a brilliant, renegade scientist is pilloried by the scientific community for his belief in a space elevator: a pillar to the sky, which he believes will make space flight fast, simple and affordable....

Gerald Livingston is an orbital garbage collector and has been cleaning up things that have been abandoned in space for a hundred years when he comes across something "spinning" that isn't on the decades old orbital maps and suddenly an hour after he captures it and brings it in, rumors fill Earth's infomesh about the alien artifact.

Introduces a climate index based on radiative transfer theory and derived from the spectral radiances typically used to retrieve temperature profiles.

On February 20, 1962, John Glenn strapped himself into the seat of the Friendship 7. He was about to become the third American in space and the first American to orbit Earth. Find out more in NASA and the Astronauts, one of the titles in the Space Exploration series.

A young child thinks about what it would be like to be an astronaut and go out on a mission into space.