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Rod Pyle

Heroes of the Space Age

Incredible Stories of the Famous and Forgotten Men and Women Who Took Humanity to the Stars

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Featuring Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin! A NASA insider tells the exciting story of the people, both well-known and unrecognized, who were responsible for so many daring space missions.Award-winning science writer Rod Pyle profiles the remarkable pilots, scientists, and engineers whose work was instrumental in space missions to every corner of our solar system and beyond. Besides heralded names like Neil Armstrong, John Glenn, and Gene Kranz, the author highlights some of the hidden figures who played crucial roles in the success of NASA, Soviet, and international space exploration. For example, Valentina Tereshkova was… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-63388-524-0
  • EAN: 9781633885240
  • Produktnummer: 28482479
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 315 S.

Über den Autor


Rod Pyle is the author of many books, most recently Interplanetary Robots and the widely acclaimed Amazing Stories of the Space Age; Curiosity: An Inside Look at the Mars Rover Mission and the People Who Made It Happen; and Destination Mars--called the best recent overview of Mars missions by the Washington Post. Other books include Destination Moon, Missions to the Moon, Mars: Making Contact, Blueprint for a Battlestar, and Innovation the NASA Way. He is the senior editor for Ad Astra magazine, the official publication of the National Space Society, and writes for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He has produced numerous documentaries for the History Channel and Discovery Communications, including the widely praised Beyond the War of the Worlds and Modern Marvels: Apollo 11. He has also worked in visual effects on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Battlestar Galactica. Pyle has been an assistant professor at the University of La Verne and a lecturer with NASA's Johnson Space Center, and creates award-winning media for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. .

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