manned space flight

NASA Mission Control flight director Gene Kranz recounts his three decades of involvement with America's space program, describing the drama that surrounded Apollo 11 and Apollo 13, and the pressures and payoffs of the job.

The story of a three-year-old chimpanzee named Ham who made history on January 31, 1961 by becoming the first intelligent being to ride an American rocket into suborbital space.

A brief history of man's experience in space as he circled the Earth, landed on the moon, and sent spaceships farther away than humans can safely go.

Impey Barbicane, president of the elite Baltimore Gun Club in the years following the Civil War, suggests the members build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon, but things get out of control when an adversary wagers against the project, and a volunteer lobbies to make the mission a manned flight.

Describes various craft in space such as a spaceship and space station and discusses activities of astronauts as they prepared for and travel in space.

A collective biography of the daring space travelers from every nationality froom spring 1961 to summer 1992.

On t.p.: An illustrated history of the men, the missions, and the spacecraft.

Traces the history of space technology and space flight since the early 1960s including the International Space Station, space shuttles, expeditions to Mars, and the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo projects.

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson shares his views on space travel and the importance of space exploration for America's economy, national security, and morale.

Eight descriptions of "firsts" in space including first space walks, first men on the moon, and first American space shuttles.