Während eines Ausflugs auf eine geheimnissvolle Insel stürzen die 16-jährigen Freundinnen Cleo, E...

Die Geschwister Albert und Victoria Wiggins leben in einen Waisenhaus. Eines Tages fordern die Be...

Colin Burgess is the coauthor of Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon; Into T...

In this spellbinding account of an historic but troubled orbital mission, noted space historian C...

Resulting from the authors' deep research into these two pre-Shuttle astronaut groups, many intri...

The names of the seven Mercury astronauts were announced in April 1959 amid a flurry of publicity...

The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team will relate who these men were and offer far more extensive backg...

Often lost in the shadow of the first group of astronauts for the Mercury missions, the second an...

This book focuses on the Interkosmos program, which was formed in 1967, marking a fundamentally n...

NASA's Mercury astronauts were seven highly skilled professional test pilots. Each of them seemed...

This book celebrates the final spaceflight in the Mercury series, flown by NASA astronaut Gordon ...

Mounting pressure in the early 1960s from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to study ways of...

TO A NATION enthralled by the heroic exploits of the Mercury astronauts, the launch of Lt. Cmdr. ...

In this book there are entire chapters devoted to the most widely used bird counting techniques, ...

Unofficially they called themselves the TFNG, or the Thirty-Five New Guys. Officially, they were ...

Colin Burgess offers a comprehensive yet personal look at the 1962 orbital mission of Wally Schir...

Inevitably, there are times in a nation's history when its hopes, fears and confidence in its own...

Colin Burgess is the author of several books on spaceflight, including Faith 7: L. Gordon Cooper,...

Francis French is the former director of events for Sally Ride Science, and the current director ...

Colin Burgess is the author of books on space flight, including Teacher in Space: Christa McAulif...

Many people are aware of the first manned Apollo mission, in which Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Rog...

In the Shadow of the Moon tells the story of the most exciting and challenging years in spaceflig...

This newly revised edition of Teacher in Space tells the story of how McAuliffe graduated from he...

Many readers will doubtless be astonished to learn that animals were being fired aloft in U.S. an...

The Greatest Adventure explores the past, present, and future of the space race.

A beautifully illustrated history of the Soviet Union's leading role in the space race.