An expert on aviation history challenges the idea that the Wright brothers were mere mechanics, upholding their place in history as great inventors and engineers who played an essential role in the evolution of modern aviation.

An authoritative documentation of the many accomplishments of the NASA Space Shuttle Program.  Explains how the space shuttle works and describes a shuttle trip from lift-off to touchdown.

NASA studies Earth in novel ways and with ingenious tools, examining it from beneath the crust to the edge of the atmosphere. This book provides a visual journey of our beautiful and compelling planet as viewed from above.

A collection of interesting stories about money, politics, human resources, commitment, competition and cooperation, and the "faster, better, cheaper" era of solar system exploration.

The Aug. 21, 2017 total-solar-eclipse viewing party on the campus of Clemson University was a once-in-a-lifetime experience attended by more than 50,000 people. This book is a commemoration of this rare celestial phenomenon.

A history of NASA, from its earliest origins to the present agency.

This is the story of the work of the original NASA space pioneers; men and women who were suddenly organized in 1958 from the then National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) into the Space Task Group.

Born and reared in a small town in rural segregated South Carolina, he did not let poverty or the color of his skin stand between him and his goal of becoming an astronaut. Ronald McNair, Ph.D., was the first civilian African-American astronaut, and one of seven courageous astronauts who gave their lives while serving our country aboard the ill-fated Space Shuttle Challenger on January 28, 1986.