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by Andrew Mishkin  Publisher Comments Andrew Mishkin, a senior systems engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a leader of NASA's robotic program, brings us this insider's look at the Mars Pathfinder probe that electrified the world's imagination. One hundred twenty-two million miles... (read more)  List Price $21.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by William Harwood Publisher Comments Since the days of Sputnik and Laika, the National Geographic Society has chronicled each step in space exploration. Astronomer and space program insider Maran presents the mind-boggling complexities of the cosmos and space science in a straightforward... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $7.45 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Tim Furniss Synopsis Few events in history have been more monumental than the emergence of the Space Age, which began with the Soviet launch of Sputnik in 1957. During the next two decades, more than 1,600 spacecraft of all varieties were launched, mostly into the earth's... (read more) List Price $24.98 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Roger D Launius Publisher Comments Space travel has gone from fantasy to reality in just fifty years where will we be fifty years from now? This breathtaking book follows our projections for space exploration in the 1950s to our actual accomplishments today and goes on to predict the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Ward Publisher Comments Peter Ward is a distinguished professor, scientist, and author whose earlier book Rare Earth, with its dim view of the possibilities of complex life beyond our planet, created a rift in the science community so controversial he was featured on the front... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Patricia Price Publisher Comments Stargazing is an activity that lasts a lifetime. There is nothing like the thrill of glimpsing at the rings ofSaturn for the first time or seeing, with the aid of a simple pair of binoculars, a fuzzy patch in the sky resolve into a cluster of sparkling... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Patrick Moore Publisher Comments This fully updated 2006 edition of the "Yearbook of Astronomy" features a range of specially commissioned articles by some of the world's top astronomers, an authoritative collection of charts and astronomical data, and a month-by-month guide to... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Serge Brunier Publisher Comments An innovative guide to the night sky. Most casual stargazers and amateur astronomers have limited time to spend on their hobby. Given the choice, they would prefer to spend their time viewing stars and constellations rather than trying to find or... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $11.25 (Used - Spiral) check for new and sale copies
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by Serge Brunier Publisher Comments In only forty years the exploration of space has become one of humanity's greatest ever achievements. Space Odyssey follows the greatest moments of this saga and tells the tale of the four hundred men and women who have been into space. The journey... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $3.85 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by William Sheehan Publisher Comments 'When the history of future Martian exploration is written, it will dwell on what is yet to come. To understand what has already happened, people of the future will consult The Planet Mars... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Homer Hickam Publisher Comments The true story, originally published as Rocket Boys, that inspired the Universal Pictures film. It was 1957, the year Sputnik raced across the Appalachian sky, and the small town of Coalwood, West Virginia, was slowly dying. Faced with an uncertain... (read more) List Price $7.50 Your price $3.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Fred Watson Publisher Comments The history of the telescope is a rich story of human ingenuity and perseverance involving some of the most colorful figures of the scientific world- Galileo, Johann Kepler, Isaac Newton, William Herschel, George Ellery Hale, and Edwin Hubble.Stargazer... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robin Kerrod Publisher Comments This stunningly illustrated visual guide to the heavens deserves a place on every amateur astronomer's bookshelf. It features both sky maps and dramatic photos of all major constellations, from Andromeda to Virgo. It also provides a stargazer's excursion... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robin Scagell and David Frydman Publisher Comments A practical, concise beginner's guide to viewing the night sky through binoculars. Stargazing with Binoculars is ideal for newcomers to astronomy. Authors Robin Scagell and David Frydman include the wide range of binoculars on the market and provide... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jay Apt Publisher Comments Orbit Orbit takes the reader into space for astronauts' views of home: Cape Cod arching into the Atlantic, Mount Everest casting its shadow over lesser peaks, the sands of the Sahara arrayed in endless patterns. Like any travelers, these voyagers in... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Godwin Publisher Comments Humankind's first lunar landing is narrated by rare official documentation, collected for the first time in this volume.<BR>... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Softcvr W/comp Media) check for new and sale copies
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by Edward Belbruno Publisher Comments When a leaf falls on a windy day, it drifts and tumbles, tossed every which way on the breeze. This is chaos in action. In Fly Me to the Moon, Edward Belbruno shows how to harness the same principle for low-fuel space travel or, as he puts it, "surfing... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Man Publisher Comments This book tells of the billions of wandering objects, from dust-particles to moon-sized lumps of rock, and of the random but vital roles they play in the drama of our evolving solar system. To human beings on Earth, comets have always been objects of... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David H Levy Publisher Comments On July 16, 1994 a world-shattering event occurred that would rivet our attention for six explosive days and go on to make history as the single most important celestial event of the century. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter, changing forever... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Martin Caiden Book News Annotation Examines how the red planet has been perceived throughout human history--in mythology, religion, astrology, folklore, early scientific history, science fiction, and the modern era of scientific discovery and space travel. Special attention is given to... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $2.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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