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Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
ISBN 13 : 9781590783849
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (838 download)
Download or read book Godspeed, John Glenn written by and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picture-book biography of John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit the earth.
Author : Carmen Bredeson
Publisher : Enslow Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780766013049
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (13 download)
Download or read book John Glenn Returns to Orbit written by Carmen Bredeson and published by Enslow Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the activities aboard the space shuttle Discovery during its historic flight in 1998 when John Glenn, at age seventy-seven, returned to space.
Author : John Glenn
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553581570
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (535 download)
Download or read book John Glenn: A Memoir written by John Glenn and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2000-10-03 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was the first astronaut to orbit the Earth. Nearly four decades later, as the world's oldest astronaut, his courage reveted a nation. But these two historical events only bracketed a life that covers the sweep of an extraordinary century. John Glenn's autobiography spans the seminal events of the twentieth century. It is a story that begins with his childhood in Ohio where he learned the importance of family, community, and patriotism. He took these values with him as a marine fighter pilot during World War II and into the skies over Korea, for which he would be decorated. Always a gifted flier, it was during the war that he contemplated the unlimited possibilities of aviation and its frontiers. We see the early days of NASA, where he first served as a backup pilot for astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom. In 1962 Glenn piloted the Mercury-Atlas 6 Friendship 7 spacecraft on the first manned orbital mission of the United States. Then came several years in international business, followed by a twenty-four year career as a U.S. Senator-and in 1998 a return to space for his remarkable Discover mission at the age of seventy-seven.
Author : Paul Kupperberg
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780823944606
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (446 download)
Download or read book John Glenn written by Paul Kupperberg and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2003-12-15 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of the pioneering astronaut who later served as a United States senator from Ohio and, at the age of seventy-seven, returned to space as a payload specialist on the space shuttle Discovery.
Author : The Dayron Daily News
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781563525254
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Back in Orbit written by The Dayron Daily News and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Glenn's heroic return to orbit, including his preparation, the shuttle's transmissions from space, and the landing.
Author : Alice L. George
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 9781641605960
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Last American Hero written by Alice L. George and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On February 20, 1962, John Glenn became a national star. That morning at Cape Canaveral, a small-town boy from Ohio took his place atop a rocket and soared into orbit to score a victory in the heavily contested Cold War. The television images were blurry black-and-white phantoms. The cameras shook as the rocket moved, but by the end of the day, one thing was clear: a new hero rode that rocket and became the center of the world's attention for the four hours and fifty-five minutes of his flight. From that day forward, Glenn restively wore the hero label. Refusing to let that dramatic day define his life, he went on to become a four-term US senator--and returned to space at the age of seventy-seven. He was a creation of the media, in some ways, but he was also a product of the Cold War. At a time when increasingly cynical Americans need heroes, his aura burns brightly in American memory.
Author : Colin Burgess
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319156543
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)
Download or read book Friendship 7 written by Colin Burgess and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this spellbinding account of an historic but troubled orbital mission, noted space historian Colin Burgess takes us back to an electrifying time in American history, when intrepid pioneers were launched atop notoriously unreliable rockets at the very dawn of human space exploration. A nation proudly and collectively came to a standstill on the day this mission flew; a day that will be forever enshrined in American spaceflight history. On the morning of February 20, 1962, following months of frustrating delays, a Marine Corps war hero and test pilot named John Glenn finally blazed a path into orbit aboard a compact capsule named Friendship 7. The book’s tension-filled narrative faithfully unfolds through contemporary reports and the personal recollections of astronaut John Glenn, along with those closest to the Friendship 7 story, revealing previously unknown facts behind one of America’s most ambitious and memorable pioneering space missions. Friendship 7. The book’s tension-filled narrative faithfully unfolds through contemporary reports and the personal recollections of astronaut John Glenn, along with those closest to the Friendship 7 story, revealing previously unknown facts behind one of America’s most ambitious and memorable pioneering space missions. Friendship 7 story, revealing previously unknown facts behind one of America’s most ambitious and memorable pioneering space missions.
Author : Henry M. Holden
Publisher : MyReportLinks.com Books
ISBN 13 : 9780766051669
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Trailblazing Astronaut John Glenn written by Henry M. Holden and published by MyReportLinks.com Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of former Senator John Glenn, who orbited the earth in 1962 and became the oldest man to go into space in 1998.
Author : Gregory Vogt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780761316145
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)
Download or read book John Glenn's Return to Space written by Gregory Vogt and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details astronaut John Glenn's second flight into space in 1998 and contrasts it with his first flight in 1962, discussing training, equipment, and responsibilities.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Orbital Flight of John H. Glenn, Jr written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Al Worden
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588343332
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Falling to Earth written by Al Worden and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As command module pilot for the Apollo 15 mission to the moon in 1971, Al Worden flew on what is widely regarded as the greatest exploration mission that humans have ever attempted. He spent six days orbiting the moon, including three days completely alone, the most isolated human in existence. During the return from the moon to earth he also conducted the first spacewalk in deep space, becoming the first human ever to see both the entire earth and moon simply by turning his head. The Apollo 15 flight capped an already-impressive career as an astronaut, including important work on the pioneering Apollo 9 and Apollo 12 missions, as well as the perilous flight of Apollo 13. Nine months after his return from the moon, Worden received a phone call telling him he was fired and ordering him out of his office by the end of the week. He refused to leave. What happened in those nine months, from being honored with parades and meetings with world leaders to being unceremoniously fired, has been a source of much speculation for four decades. Worden has never before told the full story around the dramatic events that shook NASA and ended his spaceflight career. Readers will learn them here for the first time, along with the exhilarating account of what it is like to journey to the moon and back. It's an unprecedentedly candid account of what it was like to be an Apollo astronaut, with all its glory but also its pitfalls.
Author : Ruth Ashby
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 : 1561457442
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (614 download)
Download or read book The Amazing Mr. Franklin written by Ruth Ashby and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows Benjamin Franklin was an important statesman, inventor, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. But did you know he started the first public library in America? Ben Franklin was always a "bookish" boy. The first book he read was the Bible at age five, and then he read every printed word in his father's small home library. Ben wanted to read more, but books were expensive. He wanted to go to school and learn, but his family needed him to work. Despite this, Ben Franklin had lots of ideas about how to turn his love of reading and learning into something more. First, he worked as a printer's apprentice, then he set up his own printing business. Later, he became the first bookseller in Philadelphia, started a newspaper, published Poor Richard's Almanac, and in 1731, with the help of his friends, organized the first subscription lending library, the Library Company. Ruth Ashby's fast-paced biography takes young readers through Franklin's life from his spirited, rebellious youth through his successful career as an inventor and politician and finally to the last years of his life, surrounded by his personal collection of books.
Author : Richard F. Fenno
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Presidential Odyssey of John Glenn written by Richard F. Fenno and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fenno (political science, U. of Rochester) chronicles Senator Glenn's 1984 quest for the Democratic party's nomination for president. He hypothesizes that Glenn's view of public office as "another hitch in the marines" and his mistrust of the political deal--the essence of politics--fostered an unrealistic concept of the presidential campaign. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Don Thomas
Publisher : University of Akron Press
ISBN 13 : 9781937378721
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (787 download)
Download or read book Orbit of Discovery written by Don Thomas and published by University of Akron Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The desire to beat gravity is a Buckeye tradition. After all, Orville and Wilbur Wright were Dayton, Ohio, boys who went to Kitty Hawk in 1903 to get things off the ground. When space became the next frontier, John Glenn, who was born in Cambridge, Ohio, on July 18, 1921, became the first American to orbit the earth in his Friendship 7 spacecraft. A Wapakoneta, Ohio, resident, Neil Armstrong, born in 1930, followed in the footsteps of Glenn by being the first human to step onto the moon's surface during the summer of 1969. Don Thomas, a Cleveland native, saw other Ohioans in space and set his sights on becoming an astronaut. After years of hard work and dedication, he became part of the 1995 All-Ohio space shuttle Discovery mission. Orbit of Discovery provides a first-hand account of this mission. Written by Thomas with the assistance of journalist, Mike Bartell, the book is a lively and entertaining must read for individuals who want to experience a ride into space. Orbit of Discovery is augmented with a foreword by astronaut and Senator John Glenn and an introduction by Senator George Voinovich.
Author : Gary Kitmacher
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588346323
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Space Stations written by Gary Kitmacher and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich visual history of real and fictional space stations, illustrating pop culture's influence on the development of actual space stations and vice versa Space stations represent both the summit of space technology and, possibly, the future of humanity beyond Earth. Space Stations: The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space takes the reader deep into the heart of past, present, and future space stations, both real ones and those dreamed up in popular culture. This lavishly illustrated book explains the development of space stations from the earliest fictional visions through historical and current programs--including Skylab, Mir, and the International Space Station--and on to the dawning possibilities of large-scale space colonization. Engrossing narrative and striking images explore not only the spacecraft themselves but also how humans experience life aboard them, addressing everything from the development of efficient meal preparation methods to experiments in space-based botany. The book examines cutting-edge developments in government and commercial space stations, including NASA's Deep Space Habitats, the Russian Orbital Technologies Commercial Space Station, and China's Tiangong program. Throughout, Space Stations also charts the fascinating depiction of space stations in popular culture, whether in the form of children's toys, comic-book spacecraft, settings in science-fiction novels, or the backdrop to TV series and Hollywood movies. Space Stations is a beautiful and captivating history of the idea and the reality of the space station from the nineteenth century to the present day.
Author : Michael D. Cole
Publisher : Enslow Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780766015326
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (153 download)
Download or read book John Glenn written by Michael D. Cole and published by Enslow Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of Senator John Glenn from his childhood in small-town Ohio, through his days as an astronaut, to his present political career, and his 1998 return to space.
Author : John Bennett Herrington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935684473
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)
Download or read book Mission to Space written by John Bennett Herrington and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go on a Mission to Space with Chickasaw astronaut John Herrington, as he shares his flight on the space shuttle Endeavour and his thirteen-day mission to the international Space Station. Learn what it takes to train for space flight, see the tasks he completed in space, and join him on his spacewalk 220 miles above the earth.
