Product Description: On April 13, 1970, some 205,000 miles from the Earth, an explosion rocked the moon-bound Apollo 13, taking out both engines of the command module & crippling the life-support system. The crew took refuge in the lunar module & used its engines to maneuver the craft around the moon & back toward Earth...read more

Product Description: Novel first published in 1922. From the author of The Brute!, The Gipsy Actress, and Shamed by her Husband!

Product Description: BULLDOGS AND ALL ABOUT THEM By F. Barrett Fowler A VINTAGE DOG BOOKS CLASSIC REPRINT "Bulldogs" was originally written by Henry St. John Cooper in 1914. This new edition was revised, updated, and almost completely re-written by F...read more

Product Description: "Much more is observed than Venus in The Evening Star, a smoothly written account of the Magellan spacecraft... Mr. Cooper is able to convey the sense of excitement felt by the engineers and scientists. But the star of the story is definitely Venus...read more

Chronicles the day-to-day training of Space Shuttle crew 41-G from the selection of the crew members through the completion of their mission (view table of contents)

An account of the Voyager missions past Saturn details the rendezvous of the two spacecraft with Saturn and the dramatic discoveries about Saturn, with a collection of photographs from Voyager

A fascinating account of man's ongoing search for life on Mars through the recent Viking landings explains in nontechnical terms the biological experiments that have been conducted on each of the two probes

An examination of the Apollo 13 mission focuses on the explosion that jeopardized the astronauts' lives and NASA's efforts to prevent disaster