Space Program

On Sept 5, 2019, a Space Futures conference was hosted by the US Air Force Space Command which analyzed evolving conditions in space up to 2060. Eight possible negative and positive futures were identified, the optimal being a “Star Trek Future” which would involve countries with space programs forming a multinational alliance collaborating in civil, military, and commercial affairs in space.

To the Moon is an exciting and well-written autobiography by Rosemary Roosa, the daughter of Apollo 14 Astronaut, Stu Roosa. The introduction is by Apollo 16 Astronaut, Charlie Duke, and the book is endorsed by Apollo 13 Astronaut Fred Haise. To the Moon captures the essence of the space race days and then takes you on a journey to the moon and back. Rosemary Roosa describes her adventurous life with her parents and her career. To the Moon is a touching memoir of a child whose father ventured to another celestial body - the moon - and how that impacted her life. It is the first full-length ...

James A. Michener tackles the most ambitious subject of his career: space, the last great frontier. This astounding novel brings to life the dreams and daring of countless men and women - people like Stanley Mott, the engineer whose irrepressible drive for knowledge places him at the center of the American exploration effort, and Norman Grant, the war hero and US senator who takes his personal battle not only to a nation but to the heavens.

Travelling at almost 18,000 miles per hour - 10 times faster than a rifle bullet - Yuri Gagarin circles the globe in just 106 minutes. From his windows, he sees the Earth as nobody has before, crossing a sunset and a sunrise, crossing oceans and continents, witnessing its beauty and its fragility. While his launch begins in total secrecy, within hours of his landing, he has become a world celebrity - the first human to leave the planet. Beyond tells the thrilling story behind that epic flight on its 60th anniversary.

Adult Explicit, Sci Fi Erotica 18+ Kylie needed to get off her dying planet as quickly as possible. When an alien craft was flying over head, broadcasting a help wanted for egg specialists, she applied for the job. Before she knows it, she is whisked away on a spaceship to begin an erotic journey of mating with aliens to populate their many planets. Despite being relentlessly used for their egg program, Kylie forms an unlikely friendship with her alien mate, and when her time is over as an egg specialist, he has a surprise waiting for her.

The story within this book is confronting, seemingly impossible, and beyond logic for the common person. How could someone be kidnapped, live in their body for twenty years, then returned to the point of kidnapping at the same age? Once unheard of, a twenty year tour—often partially served in outer space—has now become a phenomenon that more and more claim to have experienced. Few have the depth of memory and detail as Tony Rodrigues. This is an account of what is being hidden from us and just how far they have gone without us. Deep in our souls, we know the truth is stranger than ...

Project Mercury: The History and Legacy of America’s First Human Spaceflight Program examines the origins behind the missions, the people and spacecraft involved, and the historic results. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Mercury like never before.

In Inside the Secret Space Program: Valiant Thor and the U.S. Air Force, former Air Force pilot Mel Noel, in a transcript from one of his rare public talks, describes his interactions with a shadowy Air Force Colonel, who provided him with many insights about the secret space program and the US government's alliance with the space people.

Hannah Sparrow leaves her corporate job in the Midwest to pursue the quiet life of a small Alabama town. There, she becomes fast friends with her neighbors, Earl and Lisa, who introduce her to life in the Land of Dixie. While excavating beneath an abandoned airfield, they find an airliner that was supposedly lost at sea. When Hannah and her friends set out to solve the mystery, they discover dead passengers with secrets that some would prefer remain forgotten. A race begins to solve a half-century old mystery before Hannah becomes the next victim.

It has become clear JP, a soldier currently serving within the US Army, is part of a covert disclosure initiative to expose the public to the diverse projects involving “non-human intelligence” and exotic technologies that are known to the US military. However, in true military fashion this is being done in a way that maintains plausible deniability. As you will discover in Volume 2, almost all of JP’s missions involve “non-human intelligence” based on Earth in underwater or underground locations.

Deep space is a “serial killer” Deep space will be invariably deadly, reveal scientific studies of subjects from cells to humans. Astronauts cannot survive the intense radiation, weightlessness, toxic chemicals, disease, and other hazards beyond Earth orbit. Like old-time serial-circuit Christmas lights, in which losing one bulb extinguished all, a single medical catastrophe will end in astronauts’ death or disability. Any organ—heart, lungs, immune system, brain, or eyes—could fail. And the loss of one spacecraft system—oxygen, temperature, food, water, or radiation protection...

While living in America, a brilliant Chinese scientist is chosen to work on the US military’s most classified technologies for over a decade. Suddenly, he is outlandishly targeted by the FBI, traded in a prisoner exchange by President Eisenhower and must return to China. This episode ultimately led to China’s development of a military-run secret space program (SSP) using exotic electromagnetic propulsion systems now challenging US military dominance on Earth and in outer space.

For fans of Arthur C Clarke and Isaac Asimov, this book enables the reader to question the fabric of society and what reality actually is. It offers the reader questionable answers to our place in the Universe. The answers, if true, are horrifying. Is the truth really out there?. This is the question that Senator Lizzie Whitehouse finally has the answer to when she arrives at the secretive governmental appropriations meeting. A top secret funding meeting for a Secret Space Program, she finds it's disclosures horrific from the outset, and is determined to alert the public. Major Matt Stevens...

The essence of who we are isn't bound by time or space. It isn't constrained to a single body, nor do we live a single lifetime at once. There are multiple possible versions of each and every one of us at any given moment. In Project Starmaker, the sequel to Ceres Colony Cavalier, Tony Rodrigues expands upon the concept of consciousness transfer, a process widely exploited by dark agendas using advanced technology available to the deep state and corporate elite. This collection of short stories is the untold portion of the original account that Tony didn’t have the stomach to share in ...

An epic memoir from a man whose life is defined by exploration and innovation, The Sky Below re-creates some of the most unforgettable adventures of our time. From dramatic, high-risk spacewalks to author Scott Parazynski's death-defying quest to summit Mount Everest - his body ravaged by a career in space - listeners will experience the life of an elite athlete, physician, and explorer.

As the place where aircraft launch into space, the Kennedy Space Center is truly where space exploration begins. In this first of a three-part series, you'll learn why the Kennedy Space Center continues to be one of the most impactful sites in aviation history. Everyone has heard of NASA, but you won't get the full picture unless you understand the significance of the Kennedy Space Center. This book covers the Kennedy Space Center's history, from its beginnings post-World War II to its involvement in current launches. Far from being a sideshow for NASA, it's an essential part of NASA's ...

Picture yourself blasting off into space, floating weightlessly, and looking out your spacecraft window to see details of the Moon's every crater up close. How do you think you would feel living up in space? Terrified? Exhilarated? For a lucky few, this is beyond imagination. Aboard the Gateway Lunar Space Station, astronauts will be closer than ever to the Moon, Mars, and the greater cosmos. NASA's newest space station, the Gateway, aims to become a "home away from home" for astronauts. As part of the Artemis missions, the Lunar Gateway will triple-function as a laboratory, communication ...

If the United States couldn’t catch up to the Soviets in space, how could it compete with them on Earth? That was the question facing John F. Kennedy at the height of the Cold War. On February 20, 1962, when John Glenn blasted into orbit aboard Friendship 7, his mission was not only to circle the planet; it was to calm the fears of the free world and renew America’s sense of self-belief. Mercury Rising recreates the tension and excitement of a flight that shifted the momentum of the space race and put the United States on the path to the moon.

Of all the goals the Bolshevik Revolution aimed to bring about, perhaps nowhere were Russian promises delivered on more than in the success of the Soviet Space program of the 1950s and 1960s. As a result of Russian innovation and technology, but also due to incredible drive to modernize and compete with the United States for world power, Russia was finally and triumphantly modernized in the eyes of her own people and the world.

Project Gemini is a neglected part of the US space program. Sandwiched between the excitement of Project Mercury and the sending of the first American astronauts to space and the euphoria of the Apollo Moon landings, Gemini was a step forward rather than a dramatic leap. However, this project achieved many important firsts, including the first spacewalk, the first rendezvous and docking between two spacecraft, the first flights of more than one week’s duration, and many more.