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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Description
July 20, 1969, marked one of the climactic moments in our history, the day Apollo 11 landed on the moon. But it is only one piece of a magnificent story. Mission Control, This Is Apollo, by the acclaimed Andrew Chaikin recounts space history from the Mercury missions through Apollo 17 and beyond. It is illustrated with stunning full-color paintings by astronaut Alan Bean, who walked on the moon with Pete Conrad on Apollo 12 and has devoted his post-NASA...
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Series
The Long Earth volume Book 1
Description
1916: The Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong and the wind in the leaves. Where have the mud, blood, and blasted landscape of no-man's-land gone? For that matter, where has Percy gone? 2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Police officer Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive--some say mad, others allege dangerous--scientist who seems to have vanished. Sifting through...
4) 2312
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"The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances
have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is
no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been
created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and
in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events
will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and
its future. The first event takes place on Mercury, on the
...
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