"Lost Spacecraft" by Curt Newport. Lost Spacecraft focuses on two periods, one beginning in 1959, the other in 1985, interweaving the stories of Project Mercury. Gus Grissom and his ill-fated Mercury flight, on-going developments in Deep Ocean exploration, and Curt Newport's 14-year obsession to ...
Our Expedition 14 Jacquard Collar Polo celebrates the fourteenth resident crew aboard the International Space Station. Our design includes the official mission insignia on a 100% preshrunk cotton pique polo with contrasting jacquard knit collar and cuffs and three wood-tone buttons.
This was the twenty-fourth Discovery flight. STS 91 marked the final Shuttle/MIR Docking Mission. This Phase 1 Program is a precursor to the International Space Station maintaining a continuous American presence in space and developing the procedures and hardward required for an international ...
Nineteenth Columbia flight. The deployment of the Tether Satellite System (TSS) ended when the tether broke. The satellite was lost when it reentered the atmosphere. As part of the USMP-3 cargo bay experiments were the Advanced Automated Directional Solidification Furnace (AADSF) , Critical Fluid ...
This was the twenty-second flight of Columbia. The primary payload was the Microgravity Science Laboratory (MSL) featuring 19 materials science investigations. Landed at Kennedy Space Center, FL. on April 8, 1997. Mission Duration: 3 days 23 hours 13 minutes 38 seconds. Originally the mission was ...
Astro-2 was the second dedicated Spacelab mission to conduct astronomical observations in the ultraviolet spectral regions. It consisted of three unique instruments - the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT) , the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) and the Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter ...
Sixth Endeavour flight. The Space Radar Laboratory-1 (SPL-1) payload in the cargo bay gave scientists detailed information on human-induced environmental changes from the natural forms of global change. The Measurement of Air Pollution from satellite (NAPS) was also in the cargo bay. It measured ...
"The Case For Mars - The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must," by Robert Zubrin. Since the beginning of human history Mars has been an alluring dream-the stuff of legends, gods, and mystery. The planet most like ours, it has still been thought impossible to reach, let alone explore and ...
Your little chef can now prepare and serve delicious imaginary culinary delights with KidKraft's 27 Piece Kitchen Play Set. Molded in durable plastic and set in cheery pastel colors of pink, buttercup, sky blue and white
Get out of the way - a renegade robot is on the loose! Kids will be able to hear this one coming because he makes all kinds of noises. Extra big 118 piece motorized set includes color-coded pieces and instructions for building different models. Set includes a power motor with hand control for sound ...