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Dr. Ryan Stone is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky. On a seemingly routine spacewalk, the shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left, and the only way home may be to go further...

The brash flyboys of Team Daedalus trained body and mind for America's leap into space. Then, with the formation of NASA, they were replaced by trained chimpanzees. Four decades later, the old-school test pilots, with their grasp of outdated technology, are the only ones able to repair Russia's primitive, deorbiting satellite that threatens to crash to earth.

The story of Neil Armstrong and his work as an astronaut.

Dr. Ryan Stone is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky. On a seemingly routine spacewalk, the shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left, and the only way home may be to go further...

The lives of courageous NASA astronaut Spencer Armacost and his beautiful schoolteacher wife Jillian are momentarily shattered when Spencer's mission mysteriously loses contact with Earth for 2 minutes. But neither Spencer nor Jillian knows that those 120 seconds of terror will ultimately threaten their sanity, their future and their lives in this heart-stopping psychological thriller.

In the astronaut's wife the lives of courageous NASA astronaut Spencer Armacost and his beautiful schoolteacher wife Jillian are momentarily shattered when Spencer's mission mysteriously loses contact with Earth for 2 minutes, but neither Spencer nor Jillian knows that those 120 seconds of terror will ultimately threaten their sanity, their future and their lives. In Don Juan DeMarco a psychiatrist rescues a young man who claims to be the legendary...

Profiles seven astronauts who walked on the moon and how the experience affected them.

"A biography of Edward White, the first American to walk in space"--

"A memoir chronicling Clayton Anderson's quest to become an astronaut. From his childhood to working for NASA, and then eventually becoming an astronaut"-- "What's it like to travel at more than 850 MPH, riding in a supersonic T-38 twin turbojet engine airplane? What happens when the space station toilet breaks? How do astronauts 'take out the trash' on a spacewalk, tightly encapsulated in a space suit with just a few layers of fabric and Kevlar...