"Live from Cape Canaveral"

Author: Jay Barbree
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061735892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 527

Book Description
“From Sputnik to the International Space Station, Jay Barbree has seen it all, and reported it well. ‘Live from Cape Canaveral’ encapsulates the most technically exciting half century in history.” –Neil Armstrong Some fifty years ago, while a cub reporter, Jay Barbree caught space fever the night that Sputnik passed over Georgia. He moved to the then-sleepy village of Cocoa Beach, Florida, right outside Cape Canaveral, and began reporting on rockets that fizzled as often as they soared. In "Live from Cape Canaveral," Barbree—the only reporter who has covered every mission flown by astronauts—offers his unique perspective on the space program. He shares affectionate portraits of astronauts as well as some of his fellow journalists and tells some very funny behind-the-scenes stories—many involving astronaut pranks. Barbree also shows how much the space program and its press coverage have changed over time. Warm and perceptive, he reminds us just how thrilling the great moments of the space race were and why America fell in love with its heroic, sometimes larger-than-life astronauts.

Live Brilliantly

Author: Lenya Heitzig
Publisher: David C Cook
ISBN: 0830772561
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 394

Book Description
This all-new Fresh Life Bible study takes readers through the book of 1 John, inspiring them to respond to God’s call to be light bearers in a dark world. Each 20-minute study of 1 John in Live Brilliantly reminds readers that when their lives reflect God’s light, no darkness can overtake them. When a Christian follows God’s Word, light shines on their decisions, relationships, and actions. Their words as they live out the gospel bring light to even the darkest places. This rich yet accessible Bible study ignites readers with a new passion for God, shutting out the darkness that threatens their spirits and the world—because God’s Word is light everlasting.

Explorer's Guide Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach & Florida's Space Coast: A Great Destination (Second Edition) (Explorer's Great Destinations)

Author: Dianne Marcum
Publisher: The Countryman Press
ISBN: 1581579365
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 243

Book Description
Explore Brevard County with this updated edition of the definitive guidebook to the area. Visitors and residents alike will enjoy exploring Brevard County, a recreational paradise where the high-tech space program exists alongside amazing natural areas like the Indian River Lagoon estuary—the most diverse marine estuary in the U.S. Comprehensive listings make this your most informative and entertaining vacation-planning tool.

Field & Stream

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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
FIELD & STREAM, America’s largest outdoor sports magazine, celebrates the outdoor experience with great stories, compelling photography, and sound advice while honoring the traditions hunters and fishermen have passed down for generations.

Rocket Launch Man

Author: Ben Cooper
Publisher: Amherst Media
ISBN: 9781682034163
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Master launch photographer Ben Cooper captures readers' favorite subjects in a new light. Rather than presenting the standard "rocket lifting off the launch pad" images, he provides fresh perspectives. In addition to providing text about manned and unmanned crafts that will pique the interest of shuttle enthusiasts and newcomers alike, he shares wide-angle captures, night photographs, images shot from seldom-seen angles, and more. Readers will marvel over detailed photos of the shuttle before and after retirement, and juxtaposed with nature (Cape Canaveral's launch pages are surrounded by a national wildlife refuge), behind-the-scenes shots, images of the crafts rolling to the pad, and launching and landing too. Photographs of unmanned rockets, such as United Launch Alliance Delta II, Delta IV, and Atlas V rockets, which have been launching for a long time, plus the new era SpaceX, Falcon 9, and Falcon Heavy rockets, will please readers young and old.

To Die and Live

Author: Steven J. Losee
Publisher: Writers Exchange E-Publishing
ISBN: 1921636017
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199

Book Description
International intrigue and spiritual conflict collide! Turning to God always results in a major life change. For one man, it could mean the end of his life... Bill Donley is a deep-cover, kill-or-be-killed counter-assassination agent in the days of the Cold War. When he accepts the gift of Christ's salvation in the middle of an assignment in the Balkans, he finds himself with two problems: His enemies refuse to believe he's been authentically converted, and his employers refuse to allow it! From the USA Capital, Donley's adventures take him to Paris, Bucharest, New York City, the Bahamas, and finally to a deserted farm in the hills of Pennsylvania, where the life of the woman he loves hangs in the balance. After successfully rescuing Bible smuggler Carmen Gonsalo, Bill is forced to take one more assignment, little knowing his archenemy intends to force a final confrontation. Part 1 of this novel is the basis for the video "Smuggler's Ransom" by Noa/Rice Productions, available through Cloud Ten Pictures Inc.

Apollo 1

Author: Ryan S. Walters
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1684510945
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
On January 27, 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee climbed into a new spacecraft perched atop a large Saturn rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a routine dress rehearsal of their upcoming launch into orbit, then less than a month away. All three astronauts were experienced pilots and had dreams of one day walking on the moon. But little did they know, nor did anyone else, that once they entered the spacecraft that cold winter day they would never leave it alive. The Apollo program would be perilously close to failure before it ever got off the ground. But rather than dooming the space program, this tragedy caused the spacecraft to be completely overhauled, creating a stellar flying machine to achieve the program’s primary goal: putting man on the moon. Apollo 1 is a candid portrayal of the astronauts, the disaster that killed them, and its aftermath. In it, readers will learn: How the Apollo 1 spacecraft was doomed from the start, with miles of uninsulated wiring and tons of flammable materials in a pure oxygen atmosphere, along with a hatch that wouldn’t open How, due to political pressure, the government contract to build the Apollo 1 craft went to a bidder with an inferior plan How public opinion polls were beginning to turn against the space program before the tragedy and got much worse after Apollo 1 is about America fulfilling its destiny of man setting foot on the moon. It’s also about the three American heroes who lost their lives in the tragedy, but whose lives were not lost in vain.

The Dream Life of Astronauts

Author: Patrick Ryan
Publisher:
ISBN: 0385341385
Category : Cape Canaveral (Fla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
"These nine ... stories, all set in and around Cape Canaveral, showcase Patrick Ryan's ... understanding of regret and hope, relationships and family, and the universal longing for love"--Amazon.com.

Live Without a Net

Author: Lou Anders
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101212543
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 415

Book Description
Imagine a future without cyberspace or without the Web or virtual reality. What would happen in an alternate Information Age? What would you do? What would you fear? What wouldn’t you know? Today’s top masters of speculative fiction offer visions of futures near and far, of alternative histories, and journeys down roads not taken. What does await us at the end of a different tunnel? What would we find in dimensions where the inevitable vastness of cyberspace has been replaced by things surprising and strange? Welcome to science fiction unplugged, and set free to be. Live Without a Net contains works by such standout science fiction authors as Lou Anders, John Grant, Matthew Sturges, and many more!

Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club

Author: August Kleinzahler
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466881496
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 110

Book Description
The early poems of an American master "I have loved the air outside Shop-Rite Liquor on summer evenings better than the Marin hills at dusk lavender and gold stretching miles to the sea. At the junction, up from the synagogue a weeknight, necessarily and with my father-- a sale on German beer. Air full of living dust: bus exhaust, air-borne grains of pizza crust wounded crystals appearing, disappearing among streetlights and unsuccessful neon." --"Poetics" August Kleinzahler's first collections won him a cult following but have long been out of print and hard to find. Here Kleinzahler--acclaimed by The Times (London) for the "vision and confident skill to make American poetry new"--has selected the best of the poems collected in Storm over Hackensack (1985) and Earthquake Weather (1989) and added an autobiographical Preface in Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club.