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Author:

Pyle, Rod author.

Title:

Heroes of the space age : incredible stories of the famous and forgotten men and women who took humanity to the stars / Rod Pyle.

Publisher:

Prometheus Books,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Subject:

United States.--National Aeronautics and Space Administration--Officials and employees--Biography.
Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich,--1934-1968.
Glenn, John,--1921-2016.
Nikolaeva-Tereshkova, Valentina Vladimirovna,--1937-
Kranz, Gene.
Hamilton, Margaret Heafield,--1936-
Armstrong, Neil,--1930-2012.
Aldrin, Buzz.
Conrad, Pete,--1930-1999.
Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich,--1934-1968.
Glenn, John,--1921-2016.
Nikolaeva-Tereshkova, Valentina Vladimirovna,--1937-
Kranz, Gene.
Hamilton, Margaret Heafield,--1936-
Armstrong, Neil,--1930-2012.
Aldrin, Buzz.
Conrad, Pete,--1930-1999.
Aldrin, Buzz.
Armstrong, Neil,--1930-2012.
Conrad, Pete,--1930-1999.
Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich,--1934-1968.
Glenn, John,--1921-2016.
Hamilton, Margaret Heafield,--1936-
Kranz, Gene.
Nikolaeva-Tereshkova, Valentina Vladimirovna,--1937-
United States.--National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Astronauts--United States--Biography.
Astronauts--Soviet Union--Biography.
Astronauts.
Employees.
Soviet Union.
United States.
Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Yuri Gagarin : the first starman -- John Glenn : the clean Marine -- Valentina Tereshkova : flight of the Seagull -- Gene Kranz : stars and stripes forever -- Margaret Hamilton : the first software engineer -- Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin : "first men" -- Pete Conrad : salty sailor of the skies -- Heroes of a new space age.

ISBN:

1633885240
9781633885240

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1048936599

LCCN:

2018056213

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)