Space Age Adventures
eBook - ePub

Space Age Adventures

Over 100 Terrestrial Sites and Out of This World Stories

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Space Age Adventures

Over 100 Terrestrial Sites and Out of This World Stories

About this book

When people think about space travel, they usually look skyward. But much of spaceflight history happened down here on Earth. Space Age Adventures presents more than one hundred terrestrial sites across the United States related to space exploration, where enthusiasts can have their own space age adventures. Before astronauts walked on the Moon, they trained at locations you can visit todayā€”from NASA space centers and telescope observatories to impact craters and atomic testing grounds. Inside vast museum hangars, a visitor can walk beneath towering Saturn V rockets left over from the Apollo program or peer inside American and Soviet capsules. Elsewhere visitors can visit historic rocket pads, retired space shuttles, landed SpaceX boosters, and even watch scheduled launches. Mike Bezemek brings the artifacts and spacecraft to life with interwoven true stories that collectively span the entire Space Age. These stories offer a deeper understanding of the adventures behind the famous images. The combination of terrestrial sites and true stories makes this book the perfect guide for having unique adventures and discovering one of the most dramatic eras in human exploration.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Preface: Spaces Sites and Stories
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Becoming a Space Age Adventurer
  9. Using This Book and Must-See Sites
  10. 1. The First Rockets
  11. 2. Birth of the Space Rocket
  12. 3. The V-2
  13. Sites in Washington dc and Virginia
  14. 4. The Cold War
  15. 5. Conquering Space
  16. 6. The Satellites
  17. Sites in New York City and the Northeast
  18. 7. The Space Race
  19. 8. Mercury vs. Vostok
  20. 9. In the Thick of It
  21. Sites Near Cape Canaveral, Florida
  22. 10. The Rise of Apollo
  23. 11. Adventures and Lessons
  24. 12. A Focus on the Moon
  25. Sites in the South and on the Gulf Coast
  26. 13. Bold Steps and Tragic Setbacks
  27. 14. Closing In
  28. 15. Around the Moon
  29. Sites in the Midwest
  30. 16. 1969
  31. 17. They Came from Outer Space
  32. 18. The Landings Continue
  33. Sites in the Great Plains
  34. 19. The End of the Space Race
  35. 20. Aiming for the Stars
  36. 21. The Soviets Regroup
  37. Sites in the Southwest
  38. 22. Adventures in Orbit
  39. 23. Destination Deep Space
  40. 24. The Billionairesā€™ Space Race
  41. Sites on the West Coast
  42. Appendix of Resources
  43. Bibliography
  44. About Mike Bezemek