A fascinating account of man's ongoing search for life on Mars through the recent Viking landings explains in nontechnical terms the biological experiments that have been conducted on each of the two probes

The Search for Life on Mars: Evolution of an Idea

Science & Math

Cooper, Henry S. F.

Astronomy & Space Science

Henry Holt Co.

Discusses the discovery of a meteorite suggesting to scientists that primitive life may have existed on the planet Mars over three billion years ago.

Search for Life on Mars

Imaging Saturn: The Voyager Flights to Saturn

An account of the Voyager missions past Saturn details the rendezvous of the two spacecraft with Saturn and the dramatic discoveries about Saturn, with a collection of photographs from Voyager

A veteran space and science reporter for The New Yorker tracks the Magellan spacecraft that has been mapping Venus since 1980 and introduces the engineers and scientists in the project.

The Evening Star: Venus Observed

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

An “exciting” minute-by-minute account of the Apollo 13 flight based on mission control transcripts from Houston (The New York Times). On the evening of April 13, 1970, the three astronauts aboard Apollo 13 were just hours from the third lunar landing in history. But as they soared through space, two hundred thousand miles from Earth, an explosion badly damaged their spacecraft. With compromised engines and failing life-support systems, the crew was in incomparably grave danger. Faced with below-freezing temperatures, a seriously ill crewmember, and a dwindling water supply, a safe return seemed unlikely. Thirteen is the shocking and miraculous true story of how the astronauts and ground crew guided Apollo 13 back to Earth. Expanding on dispatches written for the New Yorker, Henry S. F. Cooper Jr. brings readers unparalleled detail on the moment-by-moment developments of one of NASA’s most dramatic missions.

Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed

History

World

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