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  • The Last Man on the Moon

    One Man's Part in Mankind's Greatest Adventure

    From the Apollo 17 commander and NASA veteran, "an exciting, insider's take on what it was like to become one of the first humans in space" ( Publishers Weekly).Eugene Cernan was a unique American who came of age as an astronaut during the most exciting and dangerous decade of space flight. His career spanned the entire Gemini and Apollo programs, from being the first person to spacewalk all the ... Leer más

    $211 MXN

  • L'ultimo uomo sulla Luna

    L'astronauta Eugene Cernan e la corsa allo spazio degli Stati Uniti

    La più grande avventura del secolo scorso: la folle, intensa e appassionante corsa alla conquista dello spazio e della Luna, il mondo a noi più vicino ma anche incredibilmente lontano, orbitando a oltre 380.000 km dalla Terra.Chi meglio del comandante della missione che ha portato gli ultimi uomini sul nostro satellite naturale può raccontare gli eventi straordinari culminati nei moduli che sono ... Leer más

    $211 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Fallen Astronauts

    Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon, Revised Edition

    Series series Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
    Near the end of the Apollo 15 mission, David Scott and fellow moonwalker James Irwin conducted a secret ceremony unsanctioned by NASA: they placed on the lunar soil a small tin figurine called The Fallen Astronaut, along with a plaque bearing a list of names. By telling the stories of those sixteen astronauts and cosmonauts who died in the quest to reach the moon between 1962 and 1972, this book ... Leer más

    $460 MXN

  • Soviets in Space

    Russia’s Cosmonauts and the Space Frontier

    de Colin Burgess ...
    Series series Kosmos
    In this deeply researched chronology, Colin Burgess describes the Soviet Union’s extraordinary success in the pioneering years of space exploration. Within a decade the Soviets not only launched the world’s first satellite, but were the first to send an animal and a human being into Earth orbit. More than that, their ground-breaking missions sent a woman into space, launched a three-man spacecraft ... Leer más

    $514 MXN

  • Shattered Dreams

    The Lost and Canceled Space Missions

    de Colin Burgess ...
    Series series Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
    Shattered Dreams delves into the personal stories and recollections of several men and women who were in line to fly a specific or future space mission but lost that opportunity due to personal reasons, mission cancellations, or even tragedies. While some of the subjects are familiar names in spaceflight history, the accounts of others are told here for the first time. Colin Burgess features ... Leer más

    $410 MXN

  • Freedom 7

    The Historic Flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr.

    de Colin Burgess ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    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 ... Leer más

    $816 MXN

  • Aurora 7

    The Mercury Space Flight of M. Scott Carpenter

    de Colin Burgess ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    T****O A NATION enthralled by the heroic exploits of the Mercury astronauts, the launch of Lt. Cmdr. Scott Carpenter on NASA’s second orbital space flight was a renewed cause for pride, jubilation and celebration. Within hours, that excitement had given way to stunned disbelief and anxiety as shaken broadcasters began preparing the American public for the very real possibility that an American ... Leer más

    $689 MXN

  • Liberty Bell 7

    The Suborbital Mercury Flight of Virgil I. Grissom

    de Colin Burgess ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    NASA’s Mercury astronauts were seven highly skilled professional test pilots. Each of them seemed to possess the strength of character and commitment necessary to overcome apparently insurmountable obstacles as the United States entered into a Cold War space race with the Soviet Union. This was never more evident than on the epic suborbital MR-4 flight of Liberty Bell 7 with astronaut Virgil (‘Gus ... Leer más

    $816 MXN

  • Sigma 7

    The Six Mercury Orbits of Walter M. Schirra, Jr.

    de Colin Burgess ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Colin Burgess offers a comprehensive yet personal look at the 1962 orbital mission of Wally Schirra aboard the spacecraft Sigma 7, the first book about this popular pioneering astronaut which explores his entire life and accomplishments. This continues the Pioneers in Early Spaceflight series, the volumes of which form an excellent record of Project Mercury's pioneering early phase of the Space ... Leer más

    $725 MXN

  • Faith 7

    L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., and the Final Mercury Mission

    de Colin Burgess ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book celebrates the final spaceflight in the Mercury series, flown by NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper, who led an adventurous life in the cockpit of airplanes and spacecraft alike, and on his Mercury mission he became the last American ever to rocket into space alone. He flew in the Mercury and Gemini programs and served as head of flight crew operations in both the Apollo and Skylab programs ... Leer más

    $725 MXN

  • Friendship 7

    The Epic Orbital Flight of John H. Glenn, Jr.

    de Colin Burgess ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    In this spellbinding account of an historic but troubled orbital mission, noted space historian Colin Burgess takes us back to an electrifying time in American history, when intrepid pioneers were launched atop notoriously unreliable rockets at the very dawn of human space exploration.A nation proudly and collectively came to a standstill on the day this mission flew; a day that will be forever ... Leer más

    $689 MXN

  • Audiolibro

    Australia's Greatest Escapes

    Gripping tales of wartime bravery

    de Colin Burgess ...
    Narrado por Steve Shanahan ...

    Completo

    11 hora 7 minutos

    Australia's greatest escape stories from two world warsAustralia’s Greatest Escapes is a collection of stories about the most hazardous aspect of the prisoner of war experience – escape. Here is all the adventure, suspense and courage of ordinary Australians who defied their captors; men who tunnelled to freedom, crawled through stinking drains, or clawed a passage beneath barbed wire in a ... Leer más

    $484 MXN