[PDF] Far Side Of The Moon eBook

Author : Liisa Jorgensen
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 28,52 MB
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 164160607X

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The decades-long love story of a NASA commander and the leader of the Astronaut Wives Club Far Side of the Moon is the untold, fully authorized story of the lives of Frank and Susan Borman. One was a famous astronaut—an instrumental part of the Apollo space program—but the other was just as much a warrior. This real-life love story is far from a fairy tale. Life as a military wife was beyond demanding, but Susan always rose to the occasion. When Frank joined NASA and was selected to command the first mission to orbit the moon, that meant putting on a brave face for the world as her husband risked his life for the space race. The pressure and anxiety were overwhelming, and eventually Susan's well-hidden depression and alcoholism finally came to light. Frank had to come to terms with how his "mission above all else" mentality contributed to his wife's suffering. As Susan healed, she was able to begin helping others who suffered in silence from mental illness and addiction. Discover how Frank and Susan's love and commitment to each other is still overcoming life's challenges, even beyond their years as an Apollo commander and the founder of the Astronaut Wives Club.

Author : Bea Uusma Schyffert
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 13,97 MB
Release : 2003-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780811840071

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A biography of the astronaut, Michael Collins, who circled the moon in the Apollo 12 space capsule while his colleagues Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the lunar module and walked on the moon.

Author : Alex Irvine
Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 12,16 MB
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0884485374

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*Junior Library Guild Selection 2017* A unanimous selection to the 2018 Maverick Graphic Novel List! This graphic retelling of the Apollo 11 moon-landing mission follows astronaut Michael Collins, commander of the lunar orbiter, to the far side of the moon. When the Earth disappears behind the moon, Collins loses contact with his fellow astronauts on the moon’s surface, with mission control at NASA, and with the entire human race, becoming more alone than any human being has ever been before. In total isolation for 21 hours, Collins awaits word that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have managed to launch their moon lander successfully to return to the orbiter—a feat never accomplished before and rendered more problematic by the fuel burn of their difficult landing. In this singularly lonely and dramatic setting, Collins reviews the politics, science, and engineering that propelled the Apollo 11 mission across 239,000 miles of space to the moon. Fountas & Pinnell Level U

Author : Charles Byrne
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,22 MB
Release : 2007-10-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 0387732063

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The far side of the Moon, also called the "dark side of the Moon" was unknown to humanity until the Luna and Lunar Orbiter pictures were returned to Earth. This wonderful book contains beautiful photographs and newly-assembled mosaic images of the far side of the Moon, cleaned of transmission, imaging stripes and processing artifacts by today’s computer technology. Byrne’s superb analysis documents the appearance of the features of the far side with beautiful pictures from Lunar Orbiter. Until now, the far side Lunar Orbiter photos have only been available with strong reconstruction lines, but appear here for the first time as complete photographs, unmarred by imaging and processing artifacts.

Author : Jonathan Pearce
Publisher : BalonaBooks
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 44,87 MB
Release : 2006-02
Category :
ISBN : 0976547953

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A young Japanese nanny and an American boy find common ground during a drought in California in the 1870s.

Author : Ben Bova
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,48 MB
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765323877

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Six-time Hugo Award-winner Bova presents a book about the side of the Moon that never faces Earth. It is the ideal location for an astronomical observatory and also the setting for a tangled web of politics, personal ambition, love, jealousy, and murder.

Author : David P. D. Munns
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 27,66 MB
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0822988003

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From the beginning of the space age, scientists and engineers have worked on systems to help humans survive for the astounding 28,500 days (78 years) needed to reach another planet. They’ve imagined and tried to create a little piece of Earth in a bubble travelling through space, inside of which people could live for decades, centuries, or even millennia. Far Beyond the Moon tells the dramatic story of engineering efforts by astronauts and scientists to create artificial habitats for humans in orbiting space stations, as well as on journeys to Mars and beyond. Along the way, David P. D. Munns and Kärin Nickelsen explore the often unglamorous but very real problem posed by long-term life support: How can we recycle biological wastes to create air, water, and even food in meticulously controlled artificial environments? Together, they draw attention to the unsung participants of the space program—the sanitary engineers, nutritionists, plant physiologists, bacteriologists, and algologists who created and tested artificial environments for space based on chemical technologies of life support—as well as the bioregenerative algae systems developed to reuse waste, water, and nutrients, so that we might cope with a space journey of not just a few days, but months, or more likely, years.

Author : Douglas Wood
Publisher : Claire McKinneypr, LLC
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 30,67 MB
Release : 2020-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781733525381

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China's plan to build a military base on the Moon is side-lined when robots take command and scientists on the mission start to disappear. The only option left is for the United States and China to work together to battle Artificial Intelligence (AI) and prevent a nuclear incident on Earth.

Author : Sylvia Engdahl
Publisher : Sylvia Engdahl
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 33,90 MB
Release : 2003-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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On completion of her training as an agent of the interstellar federation's Anthropological Service, Elana is sent to a world whose people may soon destroy their civilization. Since not enough is understood about the situation to justify any interference with their evolution, the Service has no power to act; its agents must go as helpless observers, posing as natives, in the hope of gaining knowledge that may help to save other worlds. This passive role proves intolerable to the young, inexperienced agent assigned to the same city as Elana, a city under totalitarian rule. After falling in love with a local girl who has become Elana's closest friend, he identifies too completely with the natives and unwittingly endangers the entire world by a well-meant but ill-advised attempt to intervene. Forced to assume responsibility for undoing the damage, Elana finds that only she—at great cost—can prevent an immediate war of annihilation. Although this novel has the same heroine as the author's Newbery Honor book Enchantress from the Stars, it is not a sequel but a completely separate—and very different—story not intended for readers below high school age, which is also enjoyed by adults. The two books are in no way dependent on each other and can be read in either order.