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Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut is a 2006 book by retired astronaut Richard "Mike" Mullane.The book describes Mullane's experiences in the NASA astronaut corps from 1978 to 1990, including his flights on the Space Shuttle and his personal relationships with other astronauts, especially Judy Resnik, who perished in the Challenger accident.
Isadora Duncan performing barefoot during her 1915–1918 American tour. This is a list of notable barefooters, real and fictional; notable people who are known for going barefoot as a part of their public image, and whose barefoot appearance was consistently reported by media or other reliable sources, or depicted in works of fiction dedicated to them.
The third, expanded edition appeared in 1929 with the new title Wege zur Raumschiffahrt (Ways to space travel). In the years that followed, the book became a standard text in space research and rocketry. In 1960 the book was republished under the original title Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen. In 1972 NASA issued an authorized English ...
The Verein für Raumschiffahrt ("VfR", English: Society for Space Travel) [3] was a German amateur rocket association prior to World War II that included members outside Germany. [3] The first successful VfR test firing with liquid fuel (five minutes) was conducted by Max Valier at the Heylandt Works on January 25, 1930; and additional rocket ...
"Curious George's Rocket Ride": The Man with the Yellow Hat is about to become the world's first untrained person to fly into space so he can deliver food along with several experimental capsules to the International Space Station. But the spaceship designed by Professor Wiseman's assistants Professor Anthony Pizza and Dr. Alvin Einstein is ...
More than a dozen books penned by Dr. Seuss hopped onto Amazon’s best-sellers ranking after the company that oversees the estate of the iconic children’s author said it decided to discontinue ...
By 2006, Barefoot Books had released more than 400 books. [6] In March 2012, the company released The Barefoot World Atlas app. [7] In 2017, they were named by Forbes as one of the 25 Best Small Companies in America. [8] Barefoot was the first children's book publisher on Faire, the B2B online marketplace that launched in 2017. [3]
A fictional astronaut is preferably part of a real space program, like NASA or the Soviet/Russian space program, or fictional knockoffs of the same (e.g. ANSA, IASA). A fictional astronaut preferably uses space travel technology within the realm of the possible.