space vehicles

Describes the advances in space travel that have been made since 1957, tells of successes and failures, and attempts to predict the direction that future space flight and space settlement efforts may take.

Details the first flight of the space shuttle Columbia, as well as its tragic final flight.

Surveys the technological changes that have taken place during our exploration of space, discussing missiles, space stations, the space shuttle, and other developments.

Details the events, technological advances, people, and machines involved in the history of spaceflight.

After teenage Sri Lankan Ranjit Subramanian, a math prodigy, reconstructs and publishes the famous last theorem of Pierre de Fermat, the powerful aliens called the Grand Galactics respond to the flash of nuclear explosions and decide to exterminate humanity just as Earth's superpowers develop a new, nonlethal, way of promoting global peace.

Byron, a rebellious young man, is determined to overcome his troubled past and prove himself worthy by training to become a Cosbolt fighter pilot, but as he struggles to work with the fleet's toughest instructor war has started on the edge of space and Byron will need an exceptional navigator to survive.

Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial Frigate "Lynx" faces the nearly impossible task of stopping the next wave of the Rix invasion with just his ship, while his lover Senator Nara Oxham is in danger of learning a secret the Emperor will kill to keep.

The richest, most depraved man in America blasts off in his private space ship for parts unknown with the one beautiful woman capable of resisting him.

Journalist Gregory MacAllister heads a campaign to cut funding for interstellar travel, which is slowly destroying the universe, but his efforts stir public unrest and threaten Gregory's career and life.

Illustrations, maps, photographs, and text offer an overview of the history space exploration, profiling influential people, developments, and discoveries.