"An unlikely teenager risks all to expose the truth about a heralded moon landing. What if the football hadn't gone over the wall. On the other side of the wall there is a dark secret. And the devil. And the Moon Man. And the Motherland doesn't want anyone to know. But Standish Treadwell--who has different-colored eyes, who can't read, can't write, Standish Treadwell isn't bright--sees things differently than the rest of the "train-track thinkers."...

"In this easy-to-follow guide, Mark Vanhoenacker covers every step in the process of flying a plane -- from approach to touchdown, through the control panel and cockpit -- to demystify the magic of flight"--Provided by publisher.

From the testing laboratories where engineers struggle to build a jet engine that can systematically resist bird attacks, through the creation of the A320 in France, to the political and social forces that have sought to minimize the impact of the revolutionary fly-by-wire technology, the author assembles the stories necessary to truly understand the "Miracle" on the Hudson, and makes us question our assumptions about human beings in modern aviation.--from...

Airline pilot Captain "Sully" Sullenberger tells his life story, including his perspective on the emergency landing on the Hudson River that earned him the world's admiration, and offers insight on the essential qualities--leadership, responsibility and service--that he believes have been vital to his success.

This title features the missions of landers that have been sent to Mars and collected science data and photographs from a stationary point on the planet's surface. Through simple text, maps, and stunning photography, readers will learn about the twin U.S. Viking missions of the 1970s, early Russian efforts, the U.S. Mars Pathfinder, and the European Space Agency's Beagle 2. Planned future missions are also explored.

Pilot Brodie Torrance saves his passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky landing on a war-torn island, but most of the passengers are taken hostage by dangerous rebels. A convict using the flight as transport is now the only person Torrance can count on for help to rescue the others and keep them alive long enough for the airline to retrieve them.

"After traveling millions of miles through space, roving robots gently landed on Mars and then drove across its surface. Read this book to learn how engineers accomplished these amazing feats of space exploration."--

In July 1969, the space race ended when Apollo 11 fulfilled President Kennedy's space challenge. No one who witnessed the lunar landing will ever forget it. The story of the twenty-four men who traveled to the moon, told in their words, in their voices, using the images of their experiences. Forty years after the first moon landing it remains the most radical, earthshaking event.

"Bebe Miller ... combines her sumptuous choreography with digital motion capture, video projection and live music to explore issues of sensory, spatial and cultural dislocation."--REDCAT website.