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Stackpole Classics eBook Series

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  • World's First Spaceship Shuttle

    by Robert M. Powers ...
    Series series Stackpole Classics
    Join the crew of space shuttle Enterprise as they prepare to take the first step into the twenty-first century. Step aboard the world’s first reusable space vehicle with science writer Robert M. Powers for a cockpit view of a launch, orbit, re-entry, and return to earth. Preview the scheduled NASA shuttle missions in hundreds of line drawings and photographs of the crew at work in orbit. The ... Read more

    $22.83 NZD

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  • What Is NASA?

    by Sarah Fabiny, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by Ted Hammond ...
    Series series What Was?
    Find out all about NASA in this out-of-this-world addition to the What Was? series.The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA, began in 1958. With its creation, the United States hoped to ensure it won the space race against the Soviet Union. Author Sarah Fabiny describes the origins of NASA, the launching of the Apollo program that landed the first human on the moon, ... Read more

    $8.04 NZD

  • The Mammoth Book of Space Exploration and Disaster

    by Richard Russell Lawrence ...
    Series Book 358 - Mammoth Books
    In the words of those who trod the void and those at missioncontrol, here are over 50 of the greatest true stories of suborbital,orbital and deep-space exploration. From Apollo 8'sfirst view of a fractured, tortured landscape of craters on the'dark side' of the Moon to the series of cliff-hanger crisesaboard space station Mir, they include moments ofextraordinary heroic achievement as well as ... Read more

    $13.99 NZD

  • Space Shuttle 1981-2011

    Stories from 30 Years of Exploration

    by Sally Ride, Greg Freiherr, T.A. Heppenheimer ...
    Space Shuttle 1981-2011 is a lavishly illustrated special edition celebrating the space shuttle era. In thirty years of operation, space shuttles were used in 135 different missions; this volume presents the adventure stories of many of these missions in the astronauts’ own words. Additional contributions by space exploration writers cover the history of the program, technological challenges and ... Read more

    $15.17 NZD

  • Red Rover

    Inside the Story of Robotic Space Exploration, from Genesis to the Mars Rover Curiosity

    by Roger Wiens ...
    For centuries humankind has fantasized about life on Mars, whether it’s intelligent Martian life invading our planet (immortalized in H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds) or humanity colonizing Mars (the late Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles). The Red Planet’s proximity and likeness to Earth make it a magnet for our collective imagination. Yet the question of whether life exists on Mars-or has ... Read more

    $39.99 NZD

  • Mars Rover Curiosity

    An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer

    by Rob Manning, William L. Simon ...
    The firsthand account of the trials and tribulations of engineering one of the most complex pieces of space technology, the Mars Rover Curiosity, by its chief engineer Rob ManningIn the course of our enduring quest for knowledge about ourselves and our universe, we haven't found answers to one of our most fundamental questions: Does life exist anywhere else in the universe? Ten years and billions ... Read more

    $27.36 NZD

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  • Apollo 13

    A Successful Failure

    by Laura B. Edge ...
    "Houston, we've had a problem."On April 13, 1970, the three astronauts aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft were headed to the moon when a sudden explosion rocked the ship. Oxygen levels began depleting rapidly. Electrical power began to fail. Astronauts James Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise were about to be stranded in the inky void of outer space.The mission to the moon was scrapped. Now, Apollo ... Read more

    $18.39 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rocket Science and Spacecraft Fundamentals

    by Kathy Furgang ...
    Series series From Earth to the Stars
    None of humanity’s great achievements in space exploration would be possible without the work of the scientists who built those amazing rockets that blasted us into the heavens. This captivating resource about human accomplishments in rocket science covers the history of rocketry since the advent of rocket-powered missiles, as well as today’s triumphs and our hopes for the future. Straightforward ... Read more

    $45.99 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Milestones of Space

    Eleven Iconic Objects for the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

    by Michael J. Neufeld ...
    A history of exploration through eleven objects from the Air and Space Museum: "Takes you behind the scenes with firsthand stories and rare photos." —William F. Readdy, former NASA astronaut and Space Shuttle commanderThroughout human history, across cultures and landscapes, countless individuals have gazed with wonder in the same direction: upward. Getting to space was no easy task, and our quest ... Read more

    $24.02 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Starship Spotter

    Star Trek All Series

    by Adam 'mojo' Lebowitz, Robert Bonchune ...
    Series series Star Trek
    The Starship Spotter was created more than two centuries ago in the early years of deep space travel to serve as a reference guide to assorted space-going vessels. Captains of the spaceships of the United Earth Space Probe Agency used this invaluable tool to help their crews to distinguish friend from foe in the unexplored reaches of the cosmos.When the services were merged to form Starfleet, the ... Read more

    $23.97 NZD

  • Building Moonships

    The Grumman Lunar Module

    by Joshua Stoff ...
    Series series Images of America
    Chronicling the visual history of the design, construction and launch of the lunar module - one of the most historic machines in human history. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced his plans for landing a man on the moon by 1970 - despite the fact that the United States had a total of just 15 minutes of spaceflight experience up to that point. With that announcement, the space race had ... Read more

    $22.00 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Child's Introduction to Space Exploration

    An Explorer's Guide to Rockets, Astronauts, and Life in Zero Gravity

    by Michael E. Bakich, David J. Eicher ...
    Illustrated by Chelen Ecija ...
    Series series A Child's Introduction Series
    Get ready to blast off into the space! This interactive, fact-filled book by two space experts takes kids aged 8-12 on a journey through the universe with answers to all their questions on space exploration--from what the first rockets looked like and the first animal in space to what space food tastes like and what it’s like to live in zero gravity.We are living in a golden age of astronomy and ... Read more

    $28.99 NZD