Literature & Fiction, Astronomy, History of Technology 

As long as human beings have inhabited the Earth, there have been individuals willing to risk their lives in order to discover and explore the unknown. Following in this great tradition, astronauts continue to push ever farther, into the frontier of space.The U.S. Space Camp Book of Astronauts highlights some of the outstanding men and women of space:Alan Shepard, Heil Armstrong, and other legends of the spacerace yearsSkylab commander Pete Conrad and Apollo-Soyuz crew member Deke Slayton, whose missions payed the way for current space programsearly Space Shuttle astronauts, such as Sally Ride, John Young, and Guion Blufordand today's corps of astronauts, whose cultural diversity reflects the new era of international cooperation in spaceThe compelling stories of their dreams, struggles, and triumphs bring the exciting, continuing history of astronautics vividly to life. Packed with over thirty dynamic photographs, The U.S. Space Camp Book of Astronauts will inform -- and inspire -- space pioneers of tomorrow. - from Amzon