Biography & Autobiography - Scientists - Astronauts

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Light This Candle: The Life and Times of Alan Shepard

Alan Shepard was the brashest, cockiest, and most flamboyant of America's original Mercury Seven, but he was also regarded as the best. Intense, colorful, and dramatic, he was among the most private of America's public figures and, until his death in...

Publication Date: Mar 2005

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Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon

by Buzz Aldrin

Forty years ago, Buzz Aldrin became the second human, minutes after Neil Armstrong, to set foot on a celestial body other than the Earth. The event remains one of mankind's greatest achievements and was witnessed by the largest worldwide television...

Publication Date: May 2010

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One Giant Leap: Neil Armstrong's Stellar American Journey

by Leon Wagener

On July 20, 1969, the whole world stopped. It was the day when a man who grew up on a farm without electricity announced, 'One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.' But the world never knew how truly dangerous this quest...

Publication Date: Jan 2005

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Sky Walking: An Astronaut's Memoir

by Thomas D. Jones

Most books about the saints are thin on women, especially contemporary women. Even Butler's LIVES OF THE SAINTS, the 'bible' of this category, lists far more men than women. No book about the saints could ignore such beloved early martyrs as Agnes...

Publication Date: Feb 2007

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The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space

by Eugene Cernan

Eugene Cernan is a unique American who came of age as an astronaut during the most exciting and dangerous decade of spaceflight. His career spanned the entire Gemini and Apollo programs, from being the first person to spacewalk all the way around...

Publication Date: Jun 2009

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The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds

by Edgar Mitchell

In February 1971, as Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell hurtled earthward through space, he was engulfed by a profound sense of universal connectedness. He intuitively sensed that his presence and that of the planet in the window were all part of a...

Publication Date: Feb 2008

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We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves

by Scott M. Carpenter

The heroic story of the Mercury Seven, the pioneer astronauts who risked their lives for America's first manned space voyages.

Publication Date: Jan 2010

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