Star Bound
Subtitle: A Beginner's Guide to the American Space Program, from Goddard's Rockets to Goldilocks Planets and Everything in Between
Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Limited, John
Published: 2025
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781496241399
Copyright date: 2025
Subjects: Transportation
Table of contents: title: List of Illustrations
pagenum: ix; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xi; title: A Few Dates to Remember
pagenum: xiii; title: NASA's Crewed Spaceflights (So Far)
pagenum: xv; label: 1.
title: First Principles
pagenum: 1; label: 2.
title: The Wizard of Worcester
pagenum: 9; label: 3.
title: Rocketry and Death
pagenum: 19; label: 4.
title: The ss Major and the Suicide Squad
pagenum: 27; title: The All-Time Greatest Space Exploration Playlist
pagenum: 39; label: 5.
title: A Starting Gun Called Sputnik
pagenum: 43; label: 6.
title: Shadows in the Sky
pagenum: 55; label: 7.
title: Project Mercury
pagenum: 65; title: Eleven Boffo Space Books to Launch at your Brain
pagenum: 75; label: 8.
title: Gemini's Forgotten Flights
pagenum: 77; label: 9.
title: The Rise and Fall of the American Astronaut
pagenum: 88; title: The Best Space Stuff You Can Watch
pagenum: 99; label: 10.
title: Apollo and the First Man on the Moon
pagenum: 103; label: 11.
title: Skylab and the Renaissance of American Science
pagenum: 119; title: NASA's Eleven Coolest Astronauts
pagenum: 131; label: 12.
title: Probes, Rovers, and the Golden Record
pagenum: 133; label: 13.
title: The Butterfly and the Bullet
pagenum: 141; title: NASA Eleven Greatest Missions
pagenum: 159; label: 14.
title: Sleeping with the Russians
pagenum: 161; label: 15.
title: False Starts, Missteps, and the Promise of Artemis
pagenum: 169; title: America's Eleven Biggest Space Losses
pagenum: 177; label: 16.
title: The New Space Race
pagenum: 181; label: 17.
title: The Commercialization of Space
pagenum: 189; title: Eleven Everyday Benefits of the American Space Program
pagenum: 209; label: 18.
title: Curse You, Gene Roddenberry!
pagenum: 213; title: The Eleven Most Persistent Rumors, Riddles, and Conspiracy Theories about the American Space Program
pagenum: 219; label: 19.
title: Looking Outward
pagenum: 223; label: 20.
title: Why It's Worth It
pagenum: 239; title: Sources
pagenum: 251