5 Ergebnisse.

Vulume 2 of a 4 part saga. Having survived - albeit not entirely unscathed - the tribulations of Project Dandelion's Last Run from Earth to its Moonbase, the passengers are guided to their allocated accommodation and provided with a welcome package, the main content of which is a copy of The Moonbase Rulebook. This document prescribes how those making up the community are expected to conduct themselves.In addition, as a consequence of the need...

The fourth volume.With the requirement to build the G-1 spaceship in lunar orbit, preparations are made to put all the necessary construction infrastructure and support logistics in place, but implementation poses its own problems.On the ground, production of the large quantities of rocket fuel for the LTVs needed to ferry goods and people to and from lunar orbit threatens to diminish food production through reduction of atmospheric CO2 levels...

The Dandelion Chronicles Volume I: Last Run While escalation of a local nuclear conflict in South Asia into Armageddon seemed possible, that threat was mitigated by the rapprochement of the US and Russia after Glasnost. This situation allowed the writer to envisage Dandelion as a joint US/CIS "black" project to preserve a microcosm of the human race in a self-sustaining settlement on the invisible side of the Moon and, later, to spread the see...

Volume 3 of 4.With Moonbase now isolated, while the focus of its Dandelion component must now be concentrated on MXP - The Mars Exploration Project. The MXP would initially be a proving ground for the technologies to be deployed on the interstellar Probes, and development of the Probes to send the Seeds of Humanity further afield.It was envisaged by Dandelion's founders that the support community should develop into a self-sustaining human col...

Despite progress in reading achievement among primary-grade children, many are not moving beyond basic decoding to fluency and comprehension as they go on to higher grades. RAND evaluated the impact of reading coaches. This title presents results from RAND evaluation of the implementation and impact of the reading coach program in Florida schools.