Download or read book The Apollo Murders written by Chris Hadfield and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE TIMES (LONDON) THRILLER OF THE YEAR PICK AN INDIGO BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR NOMINATED for The Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize and the Sideways Award for Alternate History "Exciting." —Andy Weir, author of The Martian "Nail-biting." —James Cameron, writer and director of Avatar and Titanic "Not to be missed." —Frederick Forsyth, author of The Day of the Jackal An exceptional Cold War thriller from the dark heart of the Space Race, by astronaut and bestselling author Chris Hadfield. 1973. A final, top-secret mission to the Moon. Three astronauts in a tiny module, a quarter of a million miles from home. A quarter of a million miles from help. As Russian and American crews sprint for a secret bounty hidden away on the lunar surface, old rivalries blossom and the political stakes are stretched to the breaking point back on Earth. Houston flight controller Kazimieras "Kaz" Zemeckis must do all he can to keep the NASA crew together, while staying one step ahead of his Soviet rivals. But not everyone on board Apollo 18 is quite who they appear to be. Full of the fascinating technical detail that fans of The Martian loved, and reminiscent of the thrilling claustrophobia, twists and tension of The Hunt for Red October, The Apollo Murders puts you right there in the moment. Experience the fierce G-forces of launch, the frozen loneliness of Space and the fear of holding on to the outside of a spacecraft orbiting the Earth at 17,000 miles per hour, as told by a former Commander of the International Space Station who has done all of those things in real life. Strap in and count down for the ride of a lifetime.
Download or read book Canadarm and Collaboration written by Elizabeth Howell and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With interviews from Chris Hadfield and Marc Garneau, the tale of Canada’s involvement in international space exploration from the 1960s to the present day Canada is a small but mighty power in space exploration. After providing the Canadarm robotic arm for the space shuttle in 1981, Canada received an invitation to start an astronaut program — a program that quickly let its people accumulate skill and prestige. Canadian astronauts have since commanded the International Space Station, flown as co-pilots on spacecraft, and even held senior roles within NASA. This book traces how Canada grew from small beginnings into a major player in international space policy. You will hear about Canada’s space program from the words of its astronauts, from Canadian celebrity Chris Hadfield to Liberal cabinet minister Marc Garneau to Governor General Julie Payette. You will experience the excitement and challenges of reporting on a rocket launch in Kazakhstan, as Canada sent its latest astronaut to space in preparation for possible moon missions in the 2020s. And you will learn from the people who work behind the scenes on Canadian space technology and space policy about why we are doing this — and what we plan to do next.
Download or read book Canadian Astronaut Moon written by Canada Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-02 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada Day Canadian Novelty Notebook Daily dairy / journal / notebook to write in, for creative writing, for creating list, for scheduling, Organizing and Recording your thoughts. Makes a perfect gift idea for all Canadian, gift idea for Canada Day and anyone who loves Canada. Show everyone your value kindness in the world and show your pride to your country with this cool notebook. Perfectly sized at 6" x 9" 120 pages Softcover Bookbinding Flexible Paperback
Download or read book Canadian Astronaut Moon written by Canada Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-02 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada Day Canadian Novelty Notebook Daily dairy / journal / notebook to write in, for creative writing, for creating list, for scheduling, Organizing and Recording your thoughts. Makes a perfect gift idea for all Canadian, gift idea for Canada Day and anyone who loves Canada. Show everyone your value kindness in the world and show your pride to your country with this cool notebook. Perfectly sized at 6" x 9" 120 pages Softcover Bookbinding Flexible Paperback
Download or read book Maple Leaf in Space written by John Melady and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Canada's contributions to space exploration and profiles famous Canadian astronauts, such as Roberta Bondar, the first Canadian woman in space.
Download or read book The Astronaut Who Painted the Moon The True Story of Alan Bean written by Dean Robbins and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey to the moon on the Apollo 12 mission with Alan Bean, the fourth astronaut to walk on the lunar surface and the only artist to paint its beauty firsthand! As a boy, Alan wanted to fly planes. As a young navy pilot, Alan wished he could paint the view from the cockpit. So he took an art class to learn patterns and forms. But no class could prepare him for the beauty of the lunar surface some 240,000 miles from Earth. In 1969, Alan became the fourth man and first artist on the moon. He took dozens of pictures, but none compared to what he saw through his artistic eyes. When he returned to Earth, he began to paint what he saw. Alan's paintings allowed humanity to experience what it truly felt like to walk on the moon. Journalist and storyteller Dean Robbins's tale of this extraordinary astronaut is masterful, and artist Sean Rubin's illustrations are whimsical and unexpected. With back matter that includes photos of the NASA mission, images of Alan's paintings, and a timeline of lunar space travel, this is one adventure readers won't want to miss!
Download or read book The Darkest Dark written by Chris Hadfield and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encouraging readers to dream the impossible, The Darkest Dark follows a young boy intrigued by space, but afraid of the dark, inspired by the childhood of real-life astronaut Chris Hadfield and brought to life by Terry and Eric Fan's lush, evocative illustrations. Chris loves rockets and planets and pretending he's a brave astronaut, exploring the universe. Only one problem. At night, Chris doesn't feel so brave. He's afraid of the dark. When he watches the groundbreaking moon landing on TV, Chris learns that space is the darkest dark there is, and through that lesson discovers that the dark isn't just scary, but beautiful and exciting—especially when you have big dreams to keep you company.
Download or read book Canada Astronaut Moon written by Canada Publishing and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada Day Canadian Novelty Notebook Daily dairy / journal / notebook to write in, for creative writing, for creating list, for scheduling, Organizing and Recording your thoughts. Makes a perfect gift idea for all Canadian, gift idea for Canada Day and anyone who loves Canada. Show everyone your value kindness in the world and show your pride to your country with this cool notebook. Perfectly sized at 6" x 9" 120 pages Softcover Bookbinding Flexible Paperback
Download or read book An Astronaut s Guide to Life on Earth written by Chris Hadfield and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel to space and back with astronaut Chris Hadfield's "enthralling" bestseller as your eye-opening guide (Slate). Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, and been temporarily blinded while clinging to the exterior of an orbiting spacecraft. The secret to Col. Hadfield's success-and survival-is an unconventional philosophy he learned at NASA: prepare for the worst- and enjoy every moment of it. In An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, Col. Hadfield takes readers deep into his years of training and space exploration to show how to make the impossible possible. Through eye-opening, entertaining stories filled with the adrenaline of launch, the mesmerizing wonder of spacewalks, and the measured, calm responses mandated by crises, he explains how conventional wisdom can get in the way of achievement — and happiness. His own extraordinary education in space has taught him some counterintuitive lessons: don't visualize success, do care what others think, and always sweat the small stuff. You might never be able to build a robot, pilot a spacecraft, make a music video or perform basic surgery in zero gravity like Col. Hadfield. But his vivid and refreshing insights will teach you how to think like an astronaut, and will change, completely, the way you view life on Earth — especially your own. "Hadfield proves himself to be not only a fierce explorer of the universe, but also a deeply thoughtful explorer of the human condition." —Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
Download or read book Canada Astronaut Moon written by Canada Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-02 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada Day Canadian Novelty Notebook Daily dairy / journal / notebook to write in, for creative writing, for creating list, for scheduling, Organizing and Recording your thoughts. Makes a perfect gift idea for all Canadian, gift idea for Canada Day and anyone who loves Canada. Show everyone your value kindness in the world and show your pride to your country with this cool notebook. Perfectly sized at 6" x 9" 120 pages Softcover Bookbinding Flexible Paperback
Download or read book Canada Astronaut Moon written by Canada Publishing and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada Day Canadian Novelty Notebook Daily dairy / journal / notebook to write in, for creative writing, for creating list, for scheduling, Organizing and Recording your thoughts. Makes a perfect gift idea for all Canadian, gift idea for Canada Day and anyone who loves Canada. Show everyone your value kindness in the world and show your pride to your country with this cool notebook. Perfectly sized at 6" x 9" 120 pages Softcover Bookbinding Flexible Paperback
Download or read book Canadians in Space written by John Melady and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2009-08-24 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 5 October 1984, Marc Garneau became Canada's first astronaut when he rocketed into space from a launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida. In doing so, Garneau became a national hero. Seven of his fellow citizens followed in his footsteps, many more than once. Julie Payette, a young mother and adventurer from Montreal was the first Canadian woman to visit the International Space Station. Chris Hadfield, a former fighter pilot from Ontario, was the first Canadian to do a spacewalk, while Saskatchewan-born Doctor Dave Williams performed surgery on test animals while his shuttle sped around the globe. This book was written as a 25th anniversary tribute to these brave men and women who defied tremendous odds, risked their lives, and soared from earth on sheets of flame. By leaving the only planet known to be habitable, they became true explorers in an ever-expanding universe we will never completely know.
Download or read book Canada Astronaut Moon written by Canada Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-02 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada Day Canadian Novelty Notebook Daily dairy / journal / notebook to write in, for creative writing, for creating list, for scheduling, Organizing and Recording your thoughts. Makes a perfect gift idea for all Canadian, gift idea for Canada Day and anyone who loves Canada. Show everyone your value kindness in the world and show your pride to your country with this cool notebook. Perfectly sized at 6" x 9" 120 pages Softcover Bookbinding Flexible Paperback
Download or read book Apollo 8 written by Jeffrey Kluger and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of the historic voyage to the moon that closed out one of our darkest years with a nearly unimaginable triumph In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind’s first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, and since then the Apollo program had suffered one setback after another. Meanwhile, the Russians were winning the space race, the Cold War was getting hotter by the month, and President Kennedy’s promise to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade seemed sure to be broken. But when Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders were summoned to a secret meeting and told of the dangerous mission, they instantly signed on. Written with all the color and verve of the best narrative non-fiction, Apollo 8 takes us from Mission Control to the astronaut’s homes, from the test labs to the launch pad. The race to prepare an untested rocket for an unprecedented journey paves the way for the hair-raising trip to the moon. Then, on Christmas Eve, a nation that has suffered a horrendous year of assassinations and war is heartened by an inspiring message from the trio of astronauts in lunar orbit. And when the mission is over—after the first view of the far side of the moon, the first earth-rise, and the first re-entry through the earth’s atmosphere following a flight to deep space—the impossible dream of walking on the moon suddenly seems within reach. The full story of Apollo 8 has never been told, and only Jeffrey Kluger—Jim Lovell’s co-author on their bestselling book about Apollo 13—can do it justice. Here is the tale of a mission that was both a calculated risk and a wild crapshoot, a stirring account of how three American heroes forever changed our view of the home planet.
Download or read book Moon Mission written by Sigmund Brouwer and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique look at the successful Ñ though nearly disastrous Ñ Apollo 11 moon landing! In a riveting narrative told from the astronautsÕ points of view, readers get to relive every step of Apollo 11Õs 1969 mission Ñ from ignition to moon walk to splashdown Ñ including the nail-biting (and relatively unknown) crucial moments when it came close to failure. And, setting this book apart, each step is linked to the innovations and discoveries from the past four centuries that made it possible. ItÕs a fascinating new perspective on an epic journey Ñ and how STEM set it in motion! Readers better fasten their seat belts, theyÕre in for the ride of a lifetime!
Download or read book Breaking the Chains of Gravity written by Amy Shira Teitel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible story of spaceflight before the establishment of NASA. NASA's history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the Moon in 1969. But America's space agency wasn't created in a vacuum. It was assembled from pre-existing parts, drawing together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer. In the 1930s, rockets were all the rage in Germany, the focus both of scientists hoping to fly into space and of the German armed forces, looking to circumvent the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles. One of the key figures in this period was Wernher von Braun, an engineer who designed the rockets that became the devastating V-2. As the war came to its chaotic conclusion, von Braun escaped from the ruins of Nazi Germany, and was taken to America where he began developing missiles for the US Army. Meanwhile, the US Air Force was looking ahead to a time when men would fly in space, and test pilots like Neil Armstrong were flying cutting-edge, rocket-powered aircraft in the thin upper atmosphere. Breaking the Chains of Gravity tells the story of America's nascent space program, its scientific advances, its personalities and the rivalries it caused between the various arms of the US military. At this point getting a man in space became a national imperative, leading to the creation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, otherwise known as NASA.
Download or read book Canada Astronaut Moon written by Canada Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-02 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada Day Canadian Novelty Notebook Daily dairy / journal / notebook to write in, for creative writing, for creating list, for scheduling, Organizing and Recording your thoughts. Makes a perfect gift idea for all Canadian, gift idea for Canada Day and anyone who loves Canada. Show everyone your value kindness in the world and show your pride to your country with this cool notebook. Perfectly sized at 6" x 9" 120 pages Softcover Bookbinding Flexible Paperback
