space race

A graphic novel depiction of a fictional story about the space race, in which two global superpowers along with a number of pilots, engineers, and scientists work to send the first man to the moon.

Explores the true story of four African American female mathematicians recruited by the U.S. government during World War II to work at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. Their job involved being "human computers," using pencils, slide rulers, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would allow rockets and astronauts to be launched out of the atmosphere.

"Before John Glenn orbited Earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as 'human computers' used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation."--Dust jacket.

Examines the history of the space race between the USA and USSR, exploring how the advances in technology led to further advances in the way humans explored space.

Explores various perspectives on the Space Race when the reader's choices reveal the historical details.

Race to the moon tells how the US and USSR competed to put the first human on the Moon, and how NASA’s Apollo program took less than a decade to get there.

British agent Paul Chavasse embarks on a desperate mission to Tibet in 1962 to smuggle out brilliant scientist Dr. Karl Hoffner, a man who holds the key to victory in the Cold War.

Describes the history of the "moonwatchers, " ordinary American citizens who became amateur scientists by taking an active role in the space-age of the late 1950s, watching and charting satellites using homemade telescopes and other devices.

When the United States develops a new, state-of-the-art missile defense weapon, it threatens global stability and pits the world's superpowers in a contest for dominance in the space around Earth's orbit.