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NASA's flight control teams work diligently during every flight to safeguard spacecraft and their crews, but few people appreciate the significance of their contributions to the American Space Program. Shuttle Mission Control: Flight Controller Stories and Photos, 1981-1992, showcases twenty first-person accounts of Space Shuttle controllers solving problems from dangerous pressure readings to slippery satellites. The decisions made and action...

Up in Space: we built a station, by former NASA Flight Controller and Best-STEM-Book-winning author Marianne Dyson, introduces the International Space Station to children through a rhyming story illustrated with full-color photographs. Photo captions offer extra details for parents and advanced readers. Three hands-on activities plus glossary and index included.

In Space Station Science, former NASA mission controller Marianne Dyson explains all the systems needed to keep the International Space Station up and running. She shows how the simplest tasks of daily life are changed in free fall and details the types of experiments scientists can do in space and nowhere else. Dyson tells how we get to and from space and gives us a glimpse into the future of space stations. Complete with activities that simu...

Space is still the final frontier and Mars continues to make news and attract generations of young people. In this fascinating book, hero-astronaut Buzz Aldrin challenges curious kids to think about Mars as not just a faraway red planet but as a possible future home for Earthlings! What will your new home be like? How will you get there? What will you eat for breakfast? Find out what life might be like far, far from Earth as you navigate your ...

Marianne J. Dyson recounts for us a time when women were making the first inroads into space flight control, a previously male-dominated profession. The story begins with the inspiration of the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon and follows the challenges of pursuing a science career as a woman in the 70s and 80s, when it was far from an easy path.  Dyson relates the first five space shuttle flights from the personal perspective of mission planning...

- A general foreword/introduction by a notable figure in each discipline- One chapter for each decade, including its own introduction and conclusion- A final conclusion that looks at likely trends in the 21st century- Biographic sidebars of famous scientists- Approximately 50 line illustrations and 50 photographs- Chronologies of key events (Nobel Prizes, great discoveries, and more)- Glossary, index, and other back matter.

A former NASA mission controller with firsthand knowledge of the space program combines a vivid description of humankind's race to the moon with a detailed vision of the moon as our next frontier. Full-color illustrations.