Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 257 p. In her heartwarming and empowering memoir, space pioneer Anousheh Ansari tells the story of her childhood in Iran and her family's exodus to America after the Islamic Revolution. After settling down in Texas, Anousheh built a computer technology firm from the ground up, which eventually realized a net worth of $750 million and ultimately...
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. — 528 p. — ISBN: 0374537763. Reissued with a new preface by the author on the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 journey to the moon. The years that have passed since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon in July 1969 have done nothing to alter the fundamental wonder of the...
Red Star Press, 2013 – 94 p. Pojechali", cioè, in russo, "andiamo". Fu questa l'ultima parola pronunciata da Jurij Gagarin il 12 aprile del 1961. Poi ci fu tempo soltanto per i reattori del Vostok 1, l'astronave che avrebbe consentito al ventisettenne Gagarin di compiere un'impresa mai tentata prima: raggiungere lo spazio e riuscire a vedere la Terra dalla Luna. Tutto il mondo...
Random House Canada, 2013. — 177 p. Pre-Launch. The Trip Takes a Lifetime. Have an Attitude. The Power of Negative Thinking. Sweat the Small Stuff. The Last People in the World. What’s the Next Thing That Could Kill Me? Liftoff . Tranquility Base, Kazakhstan. How to Get Blasted (and Feel Good the Next Day). Aim to Be a Zero. Life off Earth. Square Astronaut, Round Hole. Coming...
Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. — 400 p. — ISBN: 978-1524731595 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1524731601 (ebook), ISBN: 978-1524711252 (open market). A stunning, personal memoir from the astronaut and modern-day hero who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station — a message of hope for the future that will inspire for generations to come. The veteran of four...
Autobiography. — Burlington, Ontario 2001. — 256 p. — ISBN: 189652284X. Guenter Wendt’s autobiography, The Unbroken Chain, is a ground shaking, fumes in your nostrils documentary of the glory days of manned spaceflight. It is described in graphic detail by the one man who worked side by side with every astronaut that left the Cape bound for space. Because of his unique...
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