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Outposts on the Frontier A Fifty-year History of Space Stations. by Chladek, Jay

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Innovation the NASA way : harnessing the power of your organization for breakthrough success by Pyle, Rod

Table of Contents: “…Curiosity : seven minutes of terror -- Red Moon -- Riding the fire : the X-15 -- First to Mars : Mariner 4 -- Swimming in space -- The day NASA grew up : Apollo 1 -- The bug -- Taming the dragon : the F-1 rocket engine -- The big squeeze : the Saturn V's incredible second stage -- A daring gambit : Apollo 8 -- Apollo 11 : center of gravity -- Tomorrowland : saving Skylab -- Project Viking : looking for life on Mars -- Into the great darkness : Voyager's incredible journey -- Compromise 101 : the Space Shuttle : doing more for less -- Buck Rogers : the International Space Station -- NewSpace : capitalism shining bright -- Coming home : bringing NASA's lessons to your business.…”


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A history of space exploration and its future-- by Furniss, Tim

Table of Contents: “…Prologue (rocket pioneers -- Tsiolkovsky and Goddard -- The Vengeance Weapon [V-2] -- The Peenemünders -- The chief designer) -- The first steps -- Man in space (The pathfinders -- The first rocket planes -- The "Korabl Sputnik" -- Eastern propaganda -- The Mercury Project -- America's first astronauts -- Mercury orbital flights -- The X-15) -- Race to the moon ("We choose to go to the moon" -- Getting there -- The Soviet plan -- The Voskhod gamble -- First steps for Gemini -- The Heavenly Twins -- The lunar pathfinders -- The moon scouts) -- Apollo -- "Houston, we've had a problem here" -- Space shuttle -- Space stations (Skylab -- Salyut -- The space taxi -- Russian routine -- Magnificent Mir -- The quest for freedom -- Preparing for the ISS -- The International Space Station -- Up and running -- Dragon in space -- A perilous occupation) --…”


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Amazing stories of the space age : true tales of Nazis in orbit, soldiers on the moon, orphaned martian robots, and other fascinating accounts from the annals of spaceflight by Pyle, Rod

Table of Contents: “…-- LUNEX: Earth in the crosshairs -- The wheel: an inflatable space station -- Venusian empire: NASA's Mars/Venus flyby adventure -- Blue gemini: weaponizing orbit -- Flirting with death: the terrifying flight of Gemini 8 -- Manned orbiting laboratory: how to design, test, and never fly a space program -- Apollo 11: danger on the moon -- The first space shuttle: project dyna-soar -- Beyond the edge of space: the X-15B -- The sad, strange tale of Soyuz 1 -- The turtlenauts -- Falling to earth: the dangerous science of reentry -- Funeral for a viking: the end of Viking 1 -- Saving skylab: cowboys in space -- Near misses: danger stalks the space shuttle -- Showdown in space: firearms on the moon -- Buran: the Soviet Union's one-flight wonder -- Major Matt Mason: a man for the new space age.…”


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Engineering disasters. Disc 5

Table of Contents: “…Engineering disasters 19: probles the stories behind the sinking the Edmund Fitzgerald, two mysterious Boeing 737 crashes, and one of the least known nuclear catastrophes in U.S. history (a meltdown at a secret government facility) -- Engineering disasters 20: investigators reveal how a disregard for safety in the BP Refinery in Texas led to one of America's worst industrial accidents, as well as the unusual events that caused American Airlines flight 587 to fall from the sky, and the reasons behind NASA's Skylab failure -- Engineering disasters: New Orleans: As Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, design flaws on escape routes from the city and engineering errors at the Superdome shelter contributed to the nightmare. …”


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2001 : building for space travel

Table of Contents: “…Ordway III -- Architecture in motion : the interior design of Skylab / Rebecca Dalvesco -- Gravity, space, and architecture / Theodore W. …”


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Spaceflight : a Smithsonian guide by Neal, Valerie

Table of Contents: “…The elements of spaceflight -- From dreams to reality: early rockets, theories and experiments, Tsiolkovsky, Goddard, Oberth, and Esnault-Pelterie, space pioneers, Korolev and von Braun -- Rocket launch vehicles: Atlas, Delta, Titan, and Saturn, space shuttle, upper stages, Vostok, Soyuz, Cosmos, Proton, and Energiia, Launchers of other nations, world launch sites -- The Journey into orbit: Sputnik and Explorer, Vostok, Voskhod, and Soyuz, Mercury and Gemini, Space stations Salyut and Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz, Mir, The space shuttle -- Features: hazards of space debris, space suits and EVA -- Exploring the moon -- Exploring the planets: reaching the planets, Venera and Vega to Venus, Mariner and Magellan, Mars series and Viking to Mars, Pioneer, Voyager, and Galileo, Comets -- Using space: telecommunications, navigation, meteorology, remote sensing, astronomy, Hubble Space Telescope, military satellites, space bases, satellite tracking systems.…”


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Outposts on the frontier : a fifty-year history of space stations by Chladek, Jay

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The development of cryogenic storage systems for space flight

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Lunar outfitters : making the Apollo space suit by Ayrey, Bill

Table of Contents: “…Post-Lunar Missions -- 9. Skylab, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Program, and Other Development Suits -- 10. …”


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Words in time and place : exploring language through the historical thesaurus of the Oxford English dictionary by Crystal, David, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…From swelt to zonk : words for dying -- From neb to hooter : words for nose -- From cup-shot to rat-arsed : words for being drunk -- From meatship to trough, and nuncheon to short-eat : words for a (light) meal -- From gong to shitter, and closet to the House of lords : words for a privy -- From dizzy to numpty : words for a fool -- From darling to lamb-chop : terms of endearment -- From lo to knickers, and aplight to sapristi : oaths and exclamations -- From guest house to B & B, and hotel to floatel : words for inns and hotels -- From meretrix to parlor girl : words for a prostitute -- From mint to dosh : words for money -- From smolt to untempestuous, and reigh to ugly : words for calm and stormy weather -- From ealda to geriatric, bevar to poppa stoppa, and trot to old boot : words for old person, old man, old woman -- From skiffle to grime : words for types of pop music -- From astronaut to Skylab : words for spacecraft.…”


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Rabbit is rich by Updike, John

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Real space cowboys by Buckbee, Ed

Table of Contents: “…On DVD: 1972 interview with Wernher von Braun -- 30th anniversary Skylab documentary -- Alan Shepard "gotcha" film -- "Reach for the stars" space camp documentary -- Apollo panel discussion with Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Alan Shepard, Eugene Cernan and Jim Lovell -- 2002 Mercury astronaut panel discussion -- "The lighthouse that never fails" "gotcha" film -- "From the valley to the moon" documentary -- "The flight of Freedom 7" documentary -- "The first" documentary -- Apollo 12 "gotcha" film.…”


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Heroes of the space age : incredible stories of the famous and forgotten men and women who took humanity to the stars by Pyle, Rod

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The space station : an idea whose time has come

Table of Contents: “…The evolving role of man in space / Marcia S. Smith -- MOL, Skylab, and Salyut / Philip P. Chandler, Leonard David, and Courtland S. …”


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The astronaut maker : how one mysterious engineer ran human spaceflight for a generation by Cassutt, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Part I: "Don't send me there" -- October sky -- The Abbeys -- Annapolis -- Air Force -- Dyna-Soar -- Boeing -- Part II: "Before this decade is out" -- Destination: Moon -- North American Aviation -- Houston and the Manned Spacecraft Center -- Astronaut Abbey -- The Phillips Report -- Flight -- Countdown -- Ashes -- Commitment -- From the Earth to the Moon -- Challenge -- One week in August -- Part III: "The quintessential staffer" -- Mission accomplished -- Apollo 13 -- Stability -- Gravity -- The Space Shuttle -- The Soviets -- Skylab -- The Ace Moving Company -- Apollo-Soyuz -- Part IV: "Ten consecutive miracles followed by an Act of God" -- The right stuff -- The next generation -- Approach and landing -- Thirty-five new guys -- Problems -- Those other astronauts -- STS-1 -- Part V: "Go at throttle up" -- The used spaceship -- Operational flight -- Frequent flying -- 1984 -- The breaking point -- The day the Earth stood still -- Recovery -- Marooned -- Part VI: "A national quasi-emergency" -- PEPCON -- The Space Exploration Initiative -- Synthesis -- Space Council -- Dan Goldin -- Space cowboys -- Redesign -- Hubble rescue -- A space odyssey -- Return to the JSC -- Part VII: "Together to the stars " -- A new direction -- The total equation -- Crises on Mir -- First element -- End game -- The journey continues.…”


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Protecting the health of the poor : social movements in the south

Table of Contents: “…Srinath Reddy -- Addressing the vulnerability of urban poor women to negative maternal and newborn health outcomes / Geeta Sodhi and Skylab Sahu.…”


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