The X-15 Rocket Plane

Michelle Evans

• Hardcover | Engels | Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
• With the Soviet Union's launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold War soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into spa... Lees meer

Apollo Pilot

Donn Eisele

• Hardcover | Engels | Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
• In October 1968 Donn Eisele flew with fellow astronauts Walt Cunningham and Wally Schirra into Earth orbit in Apollo 7 . The first manned mission in t... Lees meer

Come Fly with Us

Melvin Croft, John Youskauskas

• Hardcover | Engels | Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
• Winner of the 2020 Space Hipsters Prize for Best Book in Astronomy, Space Exploration, or Space History Come Fly with Us is the story of an elite grou... Lees meer

In the Shadow of the Moon

Francis French, Colin Burgess

• Paperback | Engels | Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
• In the Shadow of the Moon tells the story of the most exciting and challenging years in spaceflight, with two superpowers engaged in a titanic struggl... Lees meer

The Ultimate Engineer

Richard Jurek

• Hardcover | Engels | Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
• This well-researched book is as much a history of NASA as a biography of George Low, and as such is an important contribution to the history of the ag... Lees meer

Footprints in the Dust

• Hardcover | Engels | Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
• Following the fortieth anniversary of Apollo 11 , as NASA prepares to return astronauts to the moon, Footprints in the Dust offers a thorough, engross... Lees meer

Wheels Stop

Rick Houston

• Hardcover | Engels | Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
• Humanity's first reusable spacecraft and the most complex machine ever built, NASA's Space Shuttle debuted with great promise and as a dependable sour... Lees meer

Go, Flight!

Rick Houston, Milt Heflin

• Paperback | Engels | Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
• The talented men (and later women) who worked in mission control at what is now Johnson Space Center occupied a room located on the third floor of Bui... Lees meer

Into That Silent Sea

Francis French, Colin Burgess

• Paperback | Engels | Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
• It was a time of bold new technology, historic moments, and international jousting on the final frontier. But it was also a time of human drama, of mo... Lees meer

Bold They Rise

David Hitt, Heather R Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
• After the Apollo program put twelve men on the moon and safely brought them home, anything seemed possible. In this spirit, the team at NASA set about... Lees meer

Bold They Rise

David Hitt, Heather R Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
• After the Apollo program put twelve men on the moon and safely brought them home, anything seemed possible. In this spirit, the team at NASA set about... Lees meer

Realizing Tomorrow

Chris Dubbs, Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom

• Paperback | Engels | Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
• U.S.A.F. Chief of Staff 2013 Professional Reading List Selection Nearly forty years passed between the Apollo moon landings, the grandest accomplishme... Lees meer

Ambassadors from Earth

Jay Gallentine

• Paperback | Engels | Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
• Ambassadors from Earth reminds us that our first mad scrambles to reach orbit, the moon, and the planets were littered with enough histrionics and cli... Lees meer

Fallen Astronauts

Colin Burgess, Kate Doolan

• Hardcover | Engels | 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 ... Lees meer

The Ultimate Engineer

Richard Jurek

• Paperback | Engels | Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
• From the late 1950s to 1976, the U.S. human spaceflight program advanced as it did largely due to the extraordinary efforts of Austrian immigrant Geor... Lees meer

Outposts on the Frontier

Jay Chladek

• Hardcover | Engels | Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
• The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest man-made structure to orbit Earth and has been conducting research for close to a decade and a ha... Lees meer

Homesteading Space

David Hitt, Owen Garriott, Joe Kerwin, Alan L Bean

• Paperback | Engels | Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
• As the United States and the Soviet Union went from exploring space to living in it, a space station was conceived as the logical successor to the Apo... Lees meer

Realizing Tomorrow

Chris Dubbs, Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom

• Hardcover | Engels | Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
• U.S.A.F. Chief of Staff 2013 Professional Reading List Selection Nearly forty years passed between the Apollo moon landings, the grandest accomplishme... Lees meer

A Long Voyage to the Moon

Geoffrey Bowman

• Hardcover | Engels | Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
• As command module pilot of Apollo 17 , the last crewed flight to the moon, Ron Evans combined precision flying and painstaking geological observation ... Lees meer

Son of Apollo

Christopher A Roosa

• Hardcover | Engels | Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
• A son’s story about growing up with a father who was an astronaut and flew on the Apollo 14 mission. Lees meer

The X-15 Rocket Plane

Michelle Evans

• Paperback | Engels | Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
• With the Soviet Union's launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold War soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into spa... Lees meer

Go, Flight!

Rick Houston, Milt Heflin

• Hardcover | Engels | Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
• The inspiration for the documentary Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo At first glance, it looks like just another auditorium in just anothe... Lees meer

The Light of Earth

Al Worden, Francis French

• Hardcover | Engels | Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
• Apollo 15 command module pilot Al Worden was one of the highest-profile personalities among the Apollo astronauts, renowned for his outspokenness and ... Lees meer

To a Distant Day

Chris Gainor

• Paperback | Engels | Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
• "Insightful, instructive, and definitely worth the read."--Greg Andres, Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada "As someone who has been t... Lees meer