Equinox: Maths: Space

by JackChalloner (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2000

  $4.34

  This volume opens with an examination of the relationship between humans and the universe around them. Each chapter is based on an individual programme from the Equinox television series. Space Junk looks at what will happen to all the rubbish from space missions; Moon Dreams presents scientists' and entrepreneurs' plans for the moon; If we had no Moon features the story of how our, and the Earth's, life stories are intimately bound up with the moon; Space Shuttle Discovery is an in-depth view of a space-shuttle mission; Moscow we have a Problem is the story of Michael Foal's adventures and the the Mir space station; and Day Return to Space looks at the race to perfect re-usable rockets.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $3.25

  Equinox: the Earth uses Equinox programmes which have looked at the phenomenon of planet Earth and its continuing evolution. The book includes six chapters, each based on an individual programme from the Equinox stand. The stories featured are: A Sense of Disaster ; When Pigs Ruled the World ; Killer Earth ; The Iceberg Cometh ; Maelstrom ; and Ressurecting the Mammoth .