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When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist on the brink of developing a material that blocks gravity.
A small group of scientists comes up with a plan to reach the moon, only to discover that it is inhabited by a thriving community of insects that hold the scientists hostage.
This book tells the story of Apollo 11 and dispels the myth that NASA faked the moon landings.
The most dazzling of Wells' "scientific romances" and the last of the series that began with The Time Machine, this edition offers the only annotated version of The First Men in the Moon.
"The First Men in the Moon" by influential science fiction author H. G. Wells is the story of two unlikely friends, a businessman named Bedford and a scientist called Cavor, who set out to explore the Moon.
" America and the world watched in wonder and awe as a new chapter in space exploration opened. Through verse and informational text, author Rhonda Gowler Greene celebrates Apollo 11's historic moon landing.
David Howard, John Lucas, and John Goode (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966), 243–81. 78 'Art of Fiction', 63. 79 Julia Wedgewood, 'Contemporary Records: I – Fiction', Contemporary Review, ...
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, this informative coloring book was created to show how scientists and astronauts worked together to make the historic lunar landing a success.
If there are many underrecognized heroes in the Apollo 11 story, chief among them is the bureaucrat who devoted his life to getting men to the Moon: James Webb. A bulldog in the shape of a Washington lifer, with gray-blue eyes and a ...
This book relates the significant parts of that momentous journey, including the first color TV transmission to Earth, and the 21 hours, 36 minutes that Armstrong and Aldrin spent on the moon's surface.