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Heroes of the space age : incredible stories of the famous and forgotten men and women who took humanity to the stars / Rod Pyle.
Van Pelt Library TL789.85.A1 P945 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pyle, Rod, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration--Officials and employees--Biography.
- United States.
- Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich, 1934-1968.
- Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich.
- Glenn, John, 1921-2016.
- Glenn, John.
- Nikolaeva-Tereshkova, Valentina Vladimirovna, 1937-.
- Nikolaeva-Tereshkova, Valentina Vladimirovna.
- Kranz, Gene.
- Hamilton, Margaret Heafield, 1936-.
- Hamilton, Margaret Heafield.
- Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012.
- Armstrong, Neil.
- Aldrin, Buzz.
- Conrad, Pete, 1930-1999.
- Conrad, Pete.
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- Astronauts--United States--Biography.
- Astronauts.
- Astronauts--Soviet Union--Biography.
- Soviet Union.
- Employees.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2019.
- Contents:
- Yuri Gagarin : the first starman
- John Glenn : the clean Marine
- Valentina Tereshkova : flight of the Seagull
- Gene Kranz : stars and stripes forever
- Margaret Hamilton : the first software engineer
- Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin : "first men"
- Pete Conrad : salty sailor of the skies
- Heroes of a new space age.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Pyle, Rod. Heroes of the space age.
- ISBN:
- 9781633885240
- 1633885240
- OCLC:
- 1048936599
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