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A stunning and intimate biography of Margaret Hamilton, the computer engineer who helped Apollo 11 and mankind get from the Earth to the moon.First-hand accounts, exclusive interviews with the legendary Margaret Hamilton, and detailed science populate the pages of this remarkable biography. In 1969, mankind successfully left our atmosphere and landed on the moon. It took countless hours of calculations, training, wonder, and sacrifice from all...

The history of NASA's Apollo program from Earth orbital missions to lunar landings in a propulsive nonfiction narrative. Only now, it is becoming clear how exceptional and unrepeatable Apollo was. At its height, it employed almost half a million people, many working seven days a week and each determined that "it will not fail because of me."Beginning with fighter pilots in World War II, Maurer traces the origins of the Apollo program to a few ...

Ab 1970 prägten drei befreundete Persönlichkeiten - Erich Kessler, Frank Klötzli und Bernhard Nievergelt - den Natur- und Landschaftsschutz in der Schweiz. Alle drei schufen ein solides Fundament, auf dem Fachleute in Wissenschaft und Umsetzung sowie Engagierte in der Zivilgesellschaft aufbauen konnten. Nicht nur ihre biografischen Wegmarken werden in diesem Buch festgehalten, vielmehr wird ihr Wirken in einen umweltpolitischen Kontext gesetzt...

Just in time for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, science writer and the author of "The Wright Sister" takes a new look at the events and people that made the Apollo program so remarkable.

Malcolm and Me describes the seven criteria of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award program to improve student achievement: leadership, strategic planning, student and market focus, information and analysis, faculty and staff satisfaction, process management in the classroom and the business office, and results.

Rick Maurer and his wife Ilene both had successful careers with Fortune 500 companies and loving extended families - but there was something missing from their lives: they desperately wanted children. After the trauma of multiple failures with fertility doctors, Rick and Ilene were forced to accept the knowledge that they would not be able to have children naturally and decided to look into adoption. Their desire to start their family without ...

Not many people know that the Wright brothers had a sister, Katharine Wright. She supported her high-flying, inventor brothers through their aviation triumphs and struggles. This is her story.On a chill December day in 1903, a young woman came home from her teaching job in Dayton, Ohio, to find a telegram waiting for her. The woman was Katharine Wright, the telegram, from her brother Orville, announced the first successful airplane flight in h...