Heaven’s Shadow Books In Order
- Heaven’s Shadow (2011)
- Heaven’s War (2012)
- Heaven’s Fall (2013)
Novels
- The Star Country (1986)
- Dragon Season (1991)
- Missing Man (1998)
- Red Moon (2001)
- Tango Midnight (2003)
- The Vetting (2019)
Anthologies edited
- Sacred Visions (1991)
Non fiction
- Who’s Who in Space (1987)
- Deke! (1994)
- We Have Capture (2002)
- The Astronaut Maker (2018)
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Heaven’s Shadow
The science fiction epic of our time has arrived. Three years ago, an object one hundred miles across was spotted on a trajectory for Earth’s sun. Now, its journey is almost over. As it approaches, two competing manned vehicles race through almost half a million kilometers of space to reach it first. But when they both arrive on the entity, they learn that it has been sent toward Earth for a reason. An intelligent race is desperately attempting to communicate with our primitive species. And the message is: Help us.
Red Moon
It begins in 1964 with the sudden and unexpected death of Sergai Korolev, the man who ran the Soviet Space Program. Young Yuri Ribko, an engineering student working for one of the Korolev’s bureaus, is either fortunate or unfortunate to have an uncle who is a high ranking member of State security. Yuri’s uncle recruits him to spy within the Bureau, to assist in identifying possible threats to the Space Program. In return, Yuri is set on a fast track of promotion, from engineering assistant to cosmonaut. From the earliest work on Russia’s lunar lander, through a devastating string of exploding launch vehicles and deadly landings, Red Moon gives us an insider’s view of Russia’s gallant but doomed Moon Shot.
Tango Midnight
It’s 2005, and the world has changed. International terrorists have released a genetically modified disease, called X Pox, on the world. There is no greater challenge to medicine than finding a cure. Biochem billionaire Tad Mikleszewski called TM by nearly everyone is a ‘space junkie’ who has been the primary investor backing the Spacelifter project, a private attempt to build a single stage to orbit vehicle. But Spacelifter’s crucial test firing has failed, and TM is going to pull the plug. He has a better idea for getting himself into space…
. he’ll buy research time on the International Space Station, to work on a cure for X Pox. The Russians will sell him a seat on the Soyuz taxi vehicle for a mere $30 million. But the equipment in the Harmony Laboratory module was salvaged from old Russian military labs, and perhaps TM’s skills are a little bit out of date. A tiny leak a small hole in the seal of the isolation box where TM is manipulating the X Pox pathogen, and Harmony is contaminated by the disease that kills within three weeks. Now it’s a race against time, to rescue the crew and decontaminate the Space Station. NASA has a shuttle a month from launch, and if Astronaut Kelly Gessner can be retrained in decontamination procedures they can push that up two weeks. The Russians have a third Soyuz due off the assembly line, but Astronaut Mark Koskinen, NASA’s chief of staff at Star City doesn’t think they’ll make it in time. But whether Russian or American, someone is going to have to get up there, and fast.
Deke!
Deke Slayton was one of the first seven Mercury astronauts and he might have been the first American in space. Instead, he became the first chief of American Astronaut Corps. It was Deke Slayton who selected the crews who flew the Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab missions. It was Deke Slayton who made Neil Armstrong the first man on the moon. Deke! is Deke Slayton’s’ story told in his own words and in the voices of the men and women who worked with him and knew him best. Deke Slayton’s knowledge of how the .S. manned space program worked is the missing piece of every space buff’s puzzle. Now, after decades of silence, he tells his priceless stories of those years when American was engaged in the greatest voyage of exploration in human history.
We Have Capture
What an amazing career. Tom Stafford attained the highest speed ever reached by a test pilot 28,547 mph, carried a cosmonaut’s coffin with Soviet Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, led the team that designed the sequence of missions leading to the original lunar landing, and drafted the original specifications for the B 2 stealth bomber on a piece of hotel stationery. But his crowning achievement was surely his role as America s unofficial space ambassador to the Soviet Union during the darkest days of the Cold War. In this lively memoir written with Michael Cassutt, Stafford begins by recounting his early successes as a test pilot, Gemini and Apollo astronaut, and USAF general. As President Nixon’s stand in at the 1971 Soviet funeral for three cosmonauts, he opened the door to the possibility of cooperation in space between Russians and Americans. Stafford’s Apollo Soyuz team was the first group of Americans to work at the cosmonaut training center, and also the first to visit Baikonur, the top secret Soviet launch center, in 1974. His 17 July 1975 handshake in space with Soviet commander Alexei Leonov who became a lifelong friend proved to the world that the two opposing countries could indeed work successfully together. Stafford has continued in this leadership role right up to the present, participating in designing and evaluating the Space Shuttle, Mir, and the International Space Station. He is truly an American hero who personifies the broadest spirit of exploration and cooperation. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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