space flight

Chronicles the rescue efforts to bring U.S. astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox and Russian flight engineer Nikolai Burdarin back to Earth after their space shuttle "Columbia" disintegrated during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere in 2003.

After barely escaping death at the hands of ruthless corporations who have pursued him across the lunar landscape, teenager Charles Dingillian must decide which planet he should flee to so that he and his brothers can begin rebuilding their lives.

The starship Phoenix returns to the planet it abandoned two centuries earlier in the hopes of convincing the planet's aliens to trade technology for the manpower needed to rebuild their space station.

Suggests that private companies will open outer space to commercial travel, and looks at ten companies that are now preparing to do just that.

Explains how physiologists, physicians, and engineers have sought to provide the necessary protection for man to survive in space.

Examines the history of people's interest in space travel, the development of efforts to leave Earth, and possibilities for colonization and exploration of outer space.

To look at her home in a new way for an art project, eight-year-old Maxine rides on a space shuttle, where she experiences the many thrills of takeoff and has the opportunity to indeed view her home, Earth, in an entirely new way.

Paige Christian has been given a chance to join the crew of the spaceship, Traveler, designed to circle the solar system at near light speed, but things go wrong and billions of years pass, and Paige misses all of the things she left behind.