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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
by Mary Roach
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If you haven't read Mary Roach's previous bestsellers Bonk and Stiff (shame on you!), Packing for Mars is as good an introduction to Roach as you'll find. Space travel hasn't been this funny or intriguing since Douglas Adams — and best of all, it's... (read more)

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Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond (Thorndike Paperback Bestsellers)
Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond (Thorndike Paperback Bestsellers)
by Gene Kranz
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A breathtaking, first-hand account of the early days of the NASA space program, through the eyes of the man who held it all together...... (read more)

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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
by Carl Sagan
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Sagan (astronomy, Cornell U.) continues the scientific voyage begun in his bestseller, Cosmos, suggesting that our survival depends on the exploration and settlement of other worlds, and advocating spending "billions and billions" on ditching this... (read more)

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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
by Mary Roach
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Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much can a person give up? How much weirdness... (read more)

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Touring the Universe Through Binoculars: A Complete Astronomer's Guidebook (Wiley Science Editions)
Touring the Universe Through Binoculars: A Complete Astronomer's Guidebook (Wiley Science Editions)
by Philip S Harrington
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This comprehensive work takes you on a personal tour of the universe using nothing more than a pair of binoculars. More comprehensive than any book currently available, it starts with Earth's nearest neighbor, the moon, and then goes on to explore each... (read more)

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The Universe in a Nutshell
The Universe in a Nutshell
by Stephen W Hawking
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At the very frontiers of science, professor Stephen Hawking invites you to be a fellow traveler on an extraordinary voyage through space-time. Full-color illustrations.... (read more)

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Full Moon
Full Moon
by Michael Light
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The most thrilling of all journeys--the missions of the Apollo astronauts to the surface of the Moon and back--yielded 32,000 extraordinarily beautiful photographs, the record of a unique human achievement. Until recently, only a handful of these... (read more)

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An Intimate Look at the Night Sky
An Intimate Look at the Night Sky
by Chet Raymo
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On one level, An Intimate Look at the Night Sky is a unique star guide: twenty-four beautiful star maps, created specifically for this book, cycle through the seasons and across the heavens, revealing what you can see with the naked eye throughout the... (read more)

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Deep Sky Companions: The Messier Objects (Deep-Sky Companions)
Deep Sky Companions: The Messier Objects (Deep-Sky Companions)
by Stephen Omeara
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The ultimate field guide to the Messier objects, with completely new photographs and drawings.... (read more)

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Cosmology and Controversy: The Historical Development of Two Theories of the Universe
Cosmology and Controversy: The Historical Development of Two Theories of the Universe
by Helge Kragh
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"The ultimate validation of the big-bang theory makes for a fascinating book. Kragh [tells] the story in comprehensive and compelling detail."--Jack Zirker, National Optical Astronomy... (read more)

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Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes
Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes
by Michael Benson
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"These images are a spectacular reaffirmation that we are privileged to live in the greatest age of exploration the world has ever known."-From Arthur C. Clarke's foreword Since the 1960s the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been sending... (read more)

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How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
by Janna Levin
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Started as a series of letters to her mom, How the Universe Got Its Spots turned into Janna Levin's diary of her life as a scientist out to determine the size of the cosmos. Levin poetically mixes fascinating scientific details with personal anecdotes. A... (read more)

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Riding Rockets (07 Edition)
Riding Rockets (07 Edition)
by Mike Mullane
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Upon his graduation from West Point in 1967, Mike Mullane was commissioned in the USAF. He flew 134 combat missions in Vietnam. Selected in the first group of space shuttle astronauts, he completed three space missions. He lives in Albuquerque, New... (read more)

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Monthly Sky Guide 6TH Edition
Monthly Sky Guide 6TH Edition
by Ian Ridpath
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The fifth edition of Ridpath and Tirion's famous guide to the night sky, updated to 2004.... (read more)

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Destination Mars: New Explorations of the Red Planet
Destination Mars: New Explorations of the Red Planet
by Rod Pyle
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In the next decade, NASA, by itself and in collaboration with the European Space Agency, is planning a minimum of four separate missions to Mars. Clearly, exciting times are ahead for Mars exploration. This is an insiders look into the amazing projects... (read more)

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The Violent Universe: Joyrides Through the X-Ray Cosmos
The Violent Universe: Joyrides Through the X-Ray Cosmos
by Kimberly A Weaver
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This volume reveals how astronomers use color to understand the energy and intensity of high-energy particles that travel at the speed of light, and the galacatic collisions, supernova eruptions, or stellar implosions that created them.... (read more)

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Expedition Mars: How We Are Going to Get to Mars (Springer-Praxis Books in Astronomy and Space Sciences)
Expedition Mars: How We Are Going to Get to Mars (Springer-Praxis Books in Astronomy and Space Sciences)
by Martin J L Turner
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From the reviews: "...I enjoyed the historical descriptions of the contributions of the early rocket pioneers Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert Goddard, and Wernher von Braun, as well as the American and Russian manned programs...The book is aimed at the... (read more)

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Universe (Small Panorama)
Universe (Small Panorama)
by Leo Marriott
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This series has done so well that we have produced a smaller, more portable size for those who wish to have a more manageable gift book. These are also available in the original oversized coffee table format of 16 1/2 x 11 3/4 with 256 pages. Beautifully... (read more)

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The Nine Numbers of the Cosmos
The Nine Numbers of the Cosmos
by Michael Rowan Robinson
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How old is the universe? What do the atoms in our bodies, our very existence, tell us about the history of the universe? How heavy is the vacuum? How do galaxies form? Michael Rowan-Robinson answers these questions and encapsulates all that modern... (read more)

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Live from Cape Canaveral
Live from Cape Canaveral
by Jay Barbree
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Some fifty years ago, while a cub reporter, Jay Barbree caught space fever the night that Sputnik passed over Georgia. He moved to the then-sleepy village of Cocoa Beach, Florida, right outside Cape Canaveral, and began reporting on rockets that fizzled... (read more)

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