University of Nebraska, Sachbücher, Space Age Adventures: Over 100 Terrestrial Sites and Out of This World Stories (Engl...

Preface: Spaces Sites and Stories Becoming a Space Age Adventurer Using This Book and Must-See Sites 1. The First Rockets 2. Birth of the Space Rocket 3. The V-2 Sites in Washington DC and Virginia Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC Smithsonian Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly VA NASA Goddard Visitor Center, Greenbelt MD NASA Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center, Wallops Island VA Virginia Air and Space Science Center, Hampton VA 4. The Cold War 5. Conquering Space 6. The Satellites Sites in New York City and the Northeast Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, New York NY American Museum of Natural History, New York NY Cradle of Aviation Museum, Garden City NY McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, Concord NH Moonshot Museum, Pittsburgh PA Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh PA 7. The Space Race 8. Mercury vs. Vostok 9. In the Thick of It Sites Near Cape Canaveral, Florida Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Merritt Island FL Sands Space History Center, Cape Canaveral FL American Space Museum, Titusville FL 10. The Rise of Apollo 11. Adventures and Lessons 12. A Focus on the Moon Sites in the South and on the Gulf Coast Museum of Life and Science, Durham NC Tellus Science Museum, Cartersville GA U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville AL National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola FL Infinity Science Center and NASA Stennis Visitor Center, Pearlington MS Space Center Houston, Houston TX Frontiers of Flight Museum, Dallas TX SpaceX Starbase Launch Viewing, South Padre Island TX 13. Bold Steps and Tragic Setbacks 14. Closing In 15. Around the Moon Sites in the Midwest Great Lakes Science Center and NASA Glenn Visitor Center, Cleveland OH International Women&rsquo s Air and Space Museum, Cleveland OH National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, Dayton OH Armstrong Air & Space Museum, Wapakoneta OH Grissom Memorial at Spring Mill State Park, Mitchell IN Air Zoo Aerospace & Science Experience, Kalamazoo MI Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago IL Adler Planetarium, Chicago IL St. Louis Science Center, St. Louis MO 16. 1969 17. They Came from Outer Space 18. The Landings Continue Sites in the Great Plains Stafford Air and Space Museum, Weatherford OK Science Museum Oklahoma, Oklahoma City OK Cosmosphere Space Museum, Hutchison KS Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum, Ashland NE South Dakota Air and Space Museum, Box Elder SD 19. The End of the Space Race 20. Aiming for the Stars 21. The Soviets Regroup Sites in the Southwest New Mexico Museum of Space History, Alamogordo NM White Sands Missile Range Museum and Missile Park, White Sands NM Spaceport America, Truth or Consequences NM Roswell Museum and International UFO Museum & Research Center, Roswell NM 000 Very Large Array, Socorro NM New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque NM National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, Albuquerque NM Space Foundation Discovery Center, Colorado Springs CO Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum, Denver CO Space and Science Fiction Sites, Southern Utah Meteor Crater, Winslow AZ Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff AZ Astronaut Training Sites, Northern Arizona Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson AZ Titan Missile Museum, Green Valley AZ National Atomic Testing Museum and Nevada National Security Site, Las Vegas NV000 Extraterrestrial Highway, Highway 375 NV 22. Adventures in Orbit 23. Destination Deep Space 24. The Billionaires&rsquo Space Race Sites on the West Coast San Diego Air and Space Museum, San Diego CA California Science Center, Los Angeles CA Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles CA More Space Sites, Southern California Science Fiction Film Sites, California Chabot Space and Science Center, Oakland CA USS Hornet Sea, Air, and Space Museum, Alameda CA Aerospace Museum of California, Sacramento CA Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum, McMinnville OR Museum of Flight, Seattle WA Appendix of Resources Bibliography.