This book is dedicated to the memory of my colleague and friend Dr Janet AkyuЁz Mattei (1943--2004). She was born in Bodrum, Turkey, and educated at Brandeis University (BA 1965), University of Virginia (MS 1972), and Ege University, Turkey (MS...
In the words of those who trod the void and those at mission control, here are over 50 of the greatest true stories of suborbital, orbital and deep-space exploration. From Apollo 8’s first view of a fractured, tortured landscape of craters on the...