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Rocket Boys Captivated by the miracle of the first space flights, the young Homer Hickam and his friends started playing with and daydreaming about rockets. As an adult, Hickam would make rockets as an engineer at NASA. Rocket Boys ,is a touching memoir of the birth of the space age and of one man living his dream by finding his place in that great adventure. A-OK!	Back to the Moon The NASA engineer whose memoir, Rocket Boys, inspired Universal Pictures' acclaimed "October Sky" marks his fiction debut with the audacious Back to the Moon. A thriller and a beach read if there ever was one, Homer Hickam's hefty adventure novel straps us in for an exhilarating, no-holds-barred ride as a renegade astronaut points the space shuttle Columbia in the direction of Earth's mysterious, solitary neighbor. A-OK!
Apollo11: The NASA Mission Reports puts in place four of the most important documents from this flight, which was the undisputed scientific accomplishment of the 20th century. The Apollo 11 Press Kit, The Apollo 11 Pre-Launch Mission Operation Report, The Apollo 11 Post Launch Mission Operation Report and The Apollo11 Post Launch Mission Operation Report Supplement. Includes a CD-Rom.	Friendship 7: The NASA Mission Reports A complete reprint of the official report on MA-6. The CD-Rom contains all sorts of background information and images.
Project Mercury Nice introduction to Project Mercury for grade school children. Describes early space exploration and the six missions of Project Mercury that constituted America's first step toward the moon.	Back in Orbit: John Glenn's Return to Space At the age of 77, John Glenn, one of the original seven Mercury astronauts, returned to orbit. This is the step-by-step story of that heroic mission, told by award-winning journalists who have chronicled Glenn's career since his boyhood days in Ohio.
GUS Grissom: A Space Biography This book focuses on Gus Grissom's boyhood, his career path as a flight instructor, and eventual selection to the space program.	Godspeed, John Glenn Video A gripping firsthand look at the history-making events that surrounded his Mercury mission. Through exclusive interviews and rare footage, Glenn and the flight directors, engineers and correspondents who were there reveal the fascinating details of his historic mission. Narrated by Walter Cronkite. Running Time: Approx. 52 Minutes.
This New Ocean This New Ocean is a masterful major history of the space age, beautifully written -- the whole adventurous story of man's attempt to reach out for the stars, from politics and technology to the highly emotional human dimension. A-OK!	The Right Stuff Beginning with the first experiments with manned space flight in the 1940s, remembering the feats of Chuck Yeager and the breaking of the sound barrier, and focusing in on the brave pilots of the Mercury Project, Wolfe's ability to marry historical fact with dramatic intensity is nowhere more evident than in The Right Stuff. (Just don't take it too seriously - JN)
Man on the Moon: The Voyage of the Apollo Astronauts The greatest event of the 20th century is magnificently retold through the eyes and ears of the people who were there: 23 Moon voyagers and those who struggled to get the program moving. Basis for the HBO mini-series From the Earth to the Moon. Currently out-of-print, but worth looking for! A-OK!	Moon Shot; The inside Story of America's Race to the Moon Deke Slayton, Al Shepard Shepard and Slayton team up with two veteran space reporters to produce a firsthand account of the space program's early days. The narrative is at its best when it focuses on the astronauts' flight experiences - Shepard's brief Mercury flight, his lunar landing mission ten years later, and Slayton's long-delayed trip into space aboard the last Apollo mission in 1975. Currently out-of-print, but worth looking for! A-OK!
Vostok 1: First Human in Space The historic flight made by a Soviet cosmonaut in 1961 marks the beginning of our nation's obsession with space travel. The text makes interesting reading for the upper elementary student.	Deke!: US Manned Space: From Mercury to the Shuttle One of the first seven Mercury astronauts, Slayton reveals his inside knowledge of how the US manned space program really worked. When the Air Force grounded him, he became the head of America's Astronaut Corps. He selected the crews who flew the Gemini, Apollo and Skylab missions.
Schirra's Space In this revealing autobiography, Schirra takes an inside look at the early days of space flight and the men who captured the heart of the nation. A-OK!