Beatlemania Forever gathers together the people who touched the lives of the most famous band of all time. Friends, families, enemies, lovers and wives, producers and promoters, writers, journalists, and the authors who fed the machine that took the Beatles to the pinnacle of modern art. ... (read more)

The History of the Jodhpur Flying Club is the remarkable story of an Indian Maharaja's passion for flight, and his contributions to the early commercial air routes to southeast Asia. ... (read more)

Cold War Tech War explores the geo-political, technical and economic aspects of the Avro Canada story. Author Randall Whitcomb reveals for the first time anywhere several exciting design proposals of the Avro company while putting the company and its technology into an international context. ... (read more)

Detailed and comprehensive, this guide covers all aspects of progressive rock across decades of music history. Old and new fans will delight in the extensively researched, alphabetical listing of more than 3,200 bands and artists, which includes biographical information, a description, band history, and a discography for each entry, providing quick-and-easy access to a wealth of information on lesser-known bands and forgotten favorites. ... (read more)

Have you ever wondered how high a balloon can fly? Well, John Powell wanted answers, so he built what could well be the highest flying balloon ever. If "JP" has his way, one day he'll be flying you and your friends all the way to Earth orbit aboard one of his gigantic airships. ... (read more)

Have you ever wondered what Canadians have done in space science? In this book you will find out how hundreds of Canada's best and brightest have contributed to your everyday life in ways most people can't imagine. Thanks to fifty years of effort by these scientists and engineers your life has been improving and is constantly being made safer. ... (read more)

This 168 page book was originally compiled for astronauts and NASA internal staff in 1968. It includes 166 pages of diagrams of Apollo systems, trajectories and basic procedural information. This extremely rare black and white collectible with a full color cover is now available in its entirety for the first time since 1968. Extremely limited print run, perfect Christmas gift for the space history buff in your family. ... (read more)

A Pictorial History of Lunar Vehicles by Robert Godwin - 224 pages full color with over 750 illustrations. The book comprises over 200 3D Wire-frame texture-mapped models of Lunar Vehicles. This includes over 80 Lunar Landers, 80 Rovers and Mobile Laboratories, and more than 50 Lunar Flying Vehicles designed between1938 and 1972. .. (read more)

DVD - "...excellent doc recreates the Cold War invention of this horrendous weapon and tells the story of the mass hysteria that took place between the U.S. and Russia with great film footage, animations, stills and wonderful editing. There are interviews with Teller and other big players, including Hans Bethe, Freeman Dyson and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes. The story has an almost black comedy feel except that there is nothing funny about it. Terrific film for history buffs or anyone who wants to find out how the arms race escalated into high gear. If you think we live in scary times now..." .. (read more)

Forty years after the release of their first single, Genesis are back. Phil Collins, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford have reunited for their first tour in over a decade, and anticipation is high for sold-out concerts across Europe and North America in summer 2007. ... (read more)

To the Moon and Towards the Future, book 2 of Ted Spitzmiller’s definitive history of space exploration, examines the commitment by the American President John Kennedy to land a man on the Moon within the decade of the 1960s. ... (read more)

They captured the hearts of a generation.  The whole English-speaking world knew the names John, Paul, George and Ringo.  Now you can relive the lives and careers of the Beatles as seen through the popular British music publications of the 1960s. ... (read more)

The Nineties, weighing in at a mammoth 3,073 reviews, encompassing all of metal's many flavours as the genre exploded into death metal, grunge, alternative metal, power metal, progressive, stoner rock and doom, black metal and metalcore, with hair metal and thrash persisting into this strange, strange era for hard music. Popoff has indeed arrived full circle, finishing his massive task, creating the final piece of what has become a three volume guide to an astounding 6761 fulllength albums from metal's inception to the dawn of the new millennium. He stuffs the pages full of reviews and recollections of hundreds upon hundreds of rarities and monster catalogues from '90s bands, as well as the continuing catalogues of bands discussed in the earlier books. Martin re-evaluates the classics and adds trivia tidbits that make these records come to life. Come join his (often controversial!) look at metal's transitional decade and check out Martin's often fast 'n' loose opinions of hundreds of albums you won't see covered in any other rock compendium. ... (read more)

This book is a selection of the more than 500 speeches made by Dr. Wernher von Braun from 1947 to 1976. His passion as a crusader for worthy causes comes through clearly as he addresses education, the Cold War, religion, the space program, and more.
   This book is unique in that it presents von Braun's actual words, in context, whereas other books about von Braun are either interpretations or second-hand accounts. ... (read more)

In 1962 President Kennedy proclaimed that America was going to the Moon.  All that was left for the scientists, engineers and managers to do was figure out how – and then be right the first time, every time.  Project Mercury had been a successful start, but it was basically a “man in a can” program – get into orbit, look around, and come back.

Only with Project Gemini did America begin to undertake space “missions,” where the astronauts performed experiments and underwent extensive physical testing. ... (read more)

When NASA was created in 1958 almost nothing was known about how men and machines would perform in space.  In fact, to many the whole idea was crazy. Yet, in 1962 President Kennedy proclaimed that America was going to the Moon.  From lunacy to a lunar sea – a big step indeed.

Project Mercury was the beginning of America's manned flight in Earth orbit.  The man who said ‘No!’ went on to become one of mankind’s most accomplished astronauts.... (read more)

During a two-decade period, from the 1950s to the 1970s, a nuclear rocket propulsion system was developed capable of performing robotic and human exploration of our solar system. The US government’s Rover program developed the system and succeeded in demonstrating the propulsion capabilities required for deep space exploration missions. The program was terminated for political reasons in the mid-1970s. You have to wonder—if the nuclear rocket had been used and further developed during the 30 years since then, where could we be today?... (read more)

For current rockets, reliability is too low and launch cost is too high when compared to aircraft operations. Reusable Launch Vehicles could solve these deficiencies and are being investigated by many companies. This book contains a databank of 300 worldwide suborbital and orbital Reusable Launch Vehicle concepts. It covers ideas from the first concepts, such as Silver Bird, proposed by Eugen Saenger in 1944, to present ones such as SpaceShipOne, proposed by Burt Rutan in 2003, as well as all X Prize candidates. For reader friendly use, all information is prepared in the same data style, which makes this book a unique reference for rocket scientists as well as everybody interested in and fascinated by rockets. An introduction to space transportation systems, a study on the motivation for developing Reusable Launch Vehicles and a discussion about the benefit of an international Reusable Launch Vehicle program complete this book.... (read more)

Donald A. Beattie, a former senior manager at the National Science Foundation, Energy Research and Development Administration, Department of Energy and NASA, served on the Space Station Advisory Committee from 1987 to 1994. He recounts the evolution of this troubled program from the perspective of a participant and close observer who worked side by side with many of the early NASA Space Station managers. He pulls no punches in describing the political and managerial conflicts that resulted in severely compromising a major international program that may never achieve the research goals envisioned when first announced by President Reagan in 1984. Beattie’s last book, Taking Science to the Moon (2001), is also a NASA insider’s account of the successful struggle in the 1960s to convince NASA management to include critical lunar science experiments on the Apollo missions. ... (read more)

Project Constellation is NASA's initiative to develop a replacement for the aging Space Shuttle. It's main goal is to provide spacecraft for returning to the Moon by the year 2020. This Pocket Space Guide, #9 in the series, gives the background information on how the program was formed and what it is destined to accomplish ... (read more)

The concept for a reusable winged space vehicle has been a dream since the early 20th century. In 1981 the United States launched the first such vehicle, Columbia, and proved that winged spacecraft could work. Now, due to political pressure, the Orbiter fleet is slated to be decommissioned, but not before it fulfills its original mandate—to build a permanent space station.... (read more)

Book 1 - Dawn of the Space Age chronicles the initial discoveries, inventions, and engineering innovations that became the foundation of rocket technology. It follows the events that shaped the initial thrust into space as represented by the first Soviet Sputniks and the shocked response by the Americans. The engineering requirements of the first manned spacecraft ,Vostok and Mercury, and the selection and experiences of the first spacefarers are all related in detail.... (read more)

The International Space Station is a unique exploit in international cooperation, an unparalleled technical and political achievement.  It is the latest step in humankind’s quest to explore and live in space. The results of research done on the ISS will enable us to improve life on Earth, and provide us with the knowledge and experience necessary before we can journey to other worlds... (read more)

The beginning of 1966 heralded the birth of the era of direct planetary exploration. Once again the Russians had upped the stakes by placing the first robotic spacecraft, Luna IX on another world. At this time the United States of America’s National Air and Space Administration was engaged in the most ambitious scientific project in human history; to place a man on the moon.

In order to safely perform this task some very fundamental questions needed to be answered in advance of the journey.... (read more)

Mankind’s love affair with the planet Mars is certainly not new. It has long been recognized that Mars is the only other planet in our solar system that could possibly support life. Until the 1970s, the existence of life on Mars remained an open question. We know today that there are no civilizations on Mars, but in 1949, when this story was written, the possibility had not yet been ruled out. In this story by Wernher von Braun, Mars has an underground civilization which is more or less on par with our own. And it is a peaceful civilization, neither bent on conquest nor paranoid about being attacked. In this story of man’s first human mission to Mars, ten space ships make the journey. ... (read more)

Most histories of the Apollo program gloss over the incredible string of events which comprised the Apollo test program. It is rare to find any mention made of the flights before Apollo 7, which was the first Apollo to carry humans into space. Occasionally people wonder about Apollo 1 through 6 (making the assumption that if there was a number seven there must have been numbers one through six) but the average citizen is hard pressed to find a concise overview of these extremely important missions. This book is an attempt to fill that void. ... (read more)