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Author
Index
A |
Buzz
Aldrin |
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Title
Index
E |
Encounter
With Tiber |
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Co-Author
John
Barnes |
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| Year |
1996 |
| Publisher |
New
English Library (Hodder
and Stoughton) |
| ISBN |
0340624515 |
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Synopsis
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Encounter
With Tiber is
the compelling
story of the men
and women who take
the human race
through the
transition from a
species that
occasionally
ventures just
beyond Earth's
atmosphere to its
ultimate destiny:
a starfaring
civilization.
It is also the
story of how a
civilization on a
world circling
Alpha Centauri,
the star closest
to our own solar
system, tried to
reach out between
the stars - and
failed tragically. |
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Review
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Buzz
Aldrin piloted the
lunar module
during the first
landing on the
moon. He
first conceived Encounter
With Tiber
more than a decade
ago and brings to
it his extensive
personal
experience of
space operations,
mission design,
the lives of
astronauts and
space politics,
along with his
personal vision of
humanity's future
in space.
The result is a
genuine epic of
human courage,
tenacity and
endurance on the
ultimate frontier
of space
exploration: the
conquest of the
stars. |
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Credit:
NASA
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Remembering
Apollo 11
On
July 20,
1969, the
America's
Apollo 11
landed on
the moon,
making
history as
the first
humans to
set foot
on another
world.
Top
image:
Apollo 11
Launch
The Apollo
11 Saturn
V rocket
climbs
toward
orbit
after
liftoff
from Pad
39A at
9:32 a.m.
EDT on
July 16,
1969.
Onboard
were
astronauts
Neil
Armstrong,
Michael
Collins
and Buzz
Aldrin.
Bottom
image:
Aldrin
Looks Back
at
Tranquility
Base
Lunar
Module
pilot Buzz
Aldrin was
photographed
during the
Apollo 11
extravehicular
activity
on the
moon by
mission
commander
Neil
Armstrong.
Aldrin had
just
deployed
the Early
Apollo
Scientific
Experiments
Package.
In the
foreground
is the
Passive
Seismic
Experiment
Package;
beyond it
is the
Laser
Ranging
Retro-Reflector
(LR-3); in
the far
right
background
is the
Lunar
Module
"Eagle." |
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NASA
Image of
the day
archive |
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