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The Martians : the true story of an alien craze that captured turn-of-the-century America. by Baron, David.;
"'In the early 1900s, many Americans actually believed we had discovered intelligent life on Mars, as best-selling science writer David Baron chronicles in The Martians, his truly bizarre tale of a nation swept up in Mars mania. At the center of Baron's historical drama is Percival Lowell, the Boston Brahmin and Harvard scion, who observed "canals" etched into the surface of Mars. Lowell devised a grand theory that the red planet was home to a utopian society that had built gargantuan ditches to funnel precious meltwater from the polar icecaps to desert farms and oasis cities. The public fell in love with the ambitious amateur astronomer who shared his findings in speeches and wildly popular books. While at first people treated the Martians whimsically -- Martians headlining Broadway shows, biologists speculating whether they were winged or gilled -- the discussion quickly became serious. Inventor Nikola Tesla announced he had received radio signals from Mars; Alexander Graham Bell agreed there was "no escape from the conviction" that intelligent beings inhabited the planet. Martian excitement reached its zenith when Lowell financed an expedition to photograph Mars from Chile's Atacama Desert, resulting in what newspapers hailed as proof of the Martian canals' existence. Triumph quickly yielded to tragedy. Those wild claims and highly speculative photographs emboldened Lowell's critics, whose withering attacks gathered steam and eventually wrecked the man and his theory -- but not the fervor he had started. Although Lowell would die discredited and delusional in 1916, the Mars frenzy spurred a nascent literary genre called science fiction, and the world's sense of its place in the universe would never be the same."--Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; SCIENCE / Space Science / Planetary; SCIENCE / Space Science / Space Exploration;

Gemini : Stepping Stone to the Moon, the Untold Story. by Kluger, Jeffrey.;
After we first launched Americans into space but before we touched down on the moons surface, there was the Gemini program, which lasted for 20 months and resulted in 10 flights. 'Gemini' is the thrilling untold story of the pioneering Gemini program that was instrumental in getting Americans on the moon. From the author of 'Lost Moon', which was the basis for the movie 'Apollo 13'.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; SCIENCE / Space Science / Space Exploration; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Aeronautics & Astronautics;

Decoding the universe [videorecording] / by McCabe, Daniel,screenwriter,television producer,television director.; Sanders, Jay O.,1953-narrator.; Savol, Jaroslav,television producer,television director.; PBS Distribution (Firm),distributor.;
Narrator: Jay O. Sanders.How big is the universe? What is it made of? Are we alone? Questions like these have inspired amazing discoveries that have transformed our understanding of the universe since the 1970s, shedding light on everything from exoplanets to black holes to the mysterious dark matter and energy that rule the cosmos. And closer to home, quantum physicists have discovered the weird laws that govern the subatomic world, unlocking amazing technologies from the smart phone in your pocket to powerful new quantum computers taking shape in labs today.E.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; stereophonic.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Nonfiction television programs.; Documentary television programs.; Science television programs.; Space astronomy.; Cosmology.; Space and time.; Space sciences.;
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Final Orbit. by Hadfield, Chris.;
PREVIOUS BOOK IN SERIES: THE DEFECTOR, ISBN 9781039005402. 'Final Orbit' is an edge-of-the seat Cold War thriller set against the backdrop of the real 1970s Space Race between the US, the USSR, and China. Chris Hadfield was born in Sarnia, ON.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Science fiction.; FICTION / Action & Adventure; FICTION / Science Fiction / Space Exploration; FICTION / Thrillers / Crime;

New eye on the universe [videorecording] : the James Webb Space Telescope / by Randall, Terri,television producer,screenwriter,television director.; Sechler, Craig,narrator.; PBS Distribution (Firm),distributor.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),production company.;
Narrator: Craig Sechler.Originally broadcast on television as a segment of Nova in 2023.In July 2022, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope released its first images, looking further back in time than ever before to show the universe in stunningly beautiful detail. But that was just the beginning.E.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; stereophonic.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Science television programs.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; James Webb Space Telescope (Spacecraft); Discoveries in science.; Space telescopes.; Space photography.;
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Pluto and beyond [videorecording] / by Randall, Terri,screenwriter,television producer,television director.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),production company,broadcaster.; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.),production company.; PBS Distribution (Firm),publisher.;
When the New Horizons spacecraft whizzed by Pluto in 2015, Earthlings were dazzled by the breathtaking images it beamed home. They revealed a never-before-seen alien landscape - a world of mountains made of ice mixed with plains of frozen-solid methane and nitrogen. After over two years of poring over the data, NASA has made remarkable new discoveries about everyone's favorite dwarf planet. But New Horizons didn't stop there.E.DVD, widescreen, NTSC, region 1; stereo.
Subjects: Nonfiction television programs.; Documentary television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; New Horizons (Spacecraft); Space sciences.; Astronautics.;
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StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson : everything you ever need to know about space travel, sci-fi, the human race, the universe, and beyond / by Tyson, Neil deGrasse.; Liu, Charles,1968 April 5-; Simons, Jeffrey Lee.;
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Subjects: Cosmology.; Earth sciences.; Human beings.; Science fiction;

2001 [videorecording (DVD)] a space odyssey / by Kubrick, Stanle; Dullea, Keir,1936; Lockwood, Gary,1937; Sylvester, William,1922; Clarke, Arthur C.(Arthur Charles),1917-2008Sentinel, 2001;
Photography, Geoffrey Unsworth, John Alcott; costume design, Hardy Amies; art director, John Hoesli; production design, Tony Masters, Harry Lange, Ernie Archer; film editor, Ray Lovejoy; music, Aram Khachaturyan ... [et al.]Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Leonard Rossiter, Robert Beaty.Inspired by Clarke's epic book, the film moves from the pre-historic birth of intelligence to the emergence of man as pure thought, somewhere in the future.MPAA rating: G.CHV rating: PG.NTSC 1.DVD, Dolby digital surround 5.1.
Subjects: Science fiction films; Video recordings for the hearing impaired; Feature films;
© c2001., Warner Home Video,

Interstellar [videorecording] / by Affleck, Casey,1975-; Bentley, Wes,1978-; Caine, Michael.; Chastain, Jessica,1977-; Damon, Matt.; Grace, Topher,1978-; Hathaway, Anne,1982-; McConaughey, Matthew,1969-; Nolan, Christopher,1970-; Nolan, Jonathan.; Legendary Pictures.; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm); Paramount Pictures Corporation.; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- );
Director of photography, Hoyte Van Hoytema ; editor, Lee Smith ; music by Hans Zimmer.Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine, Topher Grace, Jessica Chastain, Matthew Mcconaughey, Casey Affleck, Wes Bentley, Matt Damon.With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Feature films.; Interplanetary voyages; Science fiction films.; Space flight; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© 2015., Paramount,

Star trek, the original series. [videorecording] / by Courage, Alexander.; Daniels, Marc.; Doohan, James.; Finnerman, Gerald Perry,1931-; Francis, Al.; Kelley, DeForest,1920-1999.; Nimoy, Leonard.; Roddenberry, Gene.; Shatner, William.; Takei, George,1937-; Paramount Pictures Corporation.;
Spectre of the gun / Lee Cronin -- Elaan of Troyius / John Meredyth Lucas -- The Paradise Syndrome / Margaret Armen -- The Enterprise incident / D.C. Fontana -- And the children shall lead / Edward J. Lakso -- Spock's brain / Lee Cronin -- Is there in truth no beauty? / Jean Lisette Aroeste -- The empath -- The Tholian web / Judy Burns -- For the world is hollow ... / Hendrik Vollaerts -- Day of the dove / Jerome Bixby -- Plato's stepchildren / Meyer Dolinsky -- Wink of an eye / Lee Cronin -- That which survives / D.C. Fontana -- Let that be your last battlefield / Lee Cronin -- Whom Gods destroy / Lee Erwin -- The mark of Gideon / Stanley Adams -- The lights of Zetar / Shari Lewis -- The cloud minders / Margaret Armen -- The way to Eden / D.C. Fontana -- Requiem for Methuselah / Jerome Bixby -- The savage curtain -- All our yesterdays / Jean Lisette Aroeste -- Turnabout intruder.Directors of photography, Gerald Perry Finnerman, Al Francis ; art director, Rolland M. Brooks, Walter M. Jefferies ; editors, James D. Ballas ... [et al.] ; theme music, Alexander Courage ; costume designers, Ken Harvey, Marge Makau, William Ware Theiss ; visual effects, Albert Whitlock.William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig, Majel Barrett.Space is our final frontier. In the 23rd century, The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain James T. Kirk, whose First Officer is Mr. Spock, from the planet Vulcan. The Chief Medical Officer is Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy. With a determined crew of 430, the Enterprise encounters Klingons, Romulans, time paradoxes and genetic supermen. Their mission is to explore strange new worlds, to seek new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital.
Subjects: Kirk, James T. (Fictitious character); Science fiction television programs.; Spock (Fictitious character); Star Trek television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2013., Paramount,

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