Looks at rockets, lunar modules, shuttles, satellites, and probes, in terms of basic space travel theory, gravity, drag, sources of power, design, and steering.
NASA, puzzled by a series of ghostly Saturn V rocket launches from Cape Canaveral, agrees to let astronaut Rick Spencer board one of the rockets with the understanding that he will rendevous with a shuttle and get a ride home, but he decides instead to attempt a moon landing and returns to find himself gifted with amazing psychic powers.
Homer Hickam, the introspective son of a mine superintendent and a mother determined to get him out of Coalwood, West Virginia forever, nurtures a dream to send rockets into outer space--an ambition that changes his life and the lives of everyone living in Coalwood in 1957.
Surveys the invention, development, and different uses of rockets, from their beginnings in ancient Greece and China to modern efforts to explore outer space.
A memoir in which Homer Hickam, author of "October Sky," recalls the summer of 1961 when he was called back to the coal-mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia after a year of college to provide moral support for his father who had been accused of negligence in his role as mine superintendent.
true stories of the risk-taking scientists who figure out ways to explore beyond Earth
Skurzynski, Gloria
2010
Shares the stories of scientists throughout history who have contributed to the field of space exploration, and provides information about developments in the field.
