Analyzes the inherent risks and dangers of human space exploration, from those that affect the health of astronauts to those that result in shuttle explosions, and examines ways of reducing safety-related incidents.
Provides information about the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger that occurred on January 28, 1986 shortly after lift-off, focusing on the story of Christa McAuliffe, the first teacher selected to go into space.
Jake is an athlete who loves mountain climbing. His friend Hiro loves to write novels at the top of the cliff while Jake is climbing. One stormy night, Jake loses his footing and falls halfway down the cliff, and it is up to Hiro to rescue him.
After fleeing their California home to escape a possible radiation leak from a nuclear power plant, twelve-year-old Ephraim and his family find themselves caught up in circumstances perhaps even more threatening to them.
After the President of the United States is killed in a helicopter crash, Mike Nolan, a Marine Corps reserve helicopter pilot and civilian trial attorney, is hired to defend the European manufacturing company in a court, but his only hope to win is to discover what really caused the crash.
Presents short stories in which adventurers find themselves on the brink of death from hypothermia, drowning, mountain sickness, avalanche, scurvy, heatstroke, falling, predators, the bends, cerebral malaria, and dehydration.
