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Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a space station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, been temporarily blinded while clinging to the exterior of an orbiting spacecraft, and become a YouTube sensation with his performance of David Bowie's 'Space Oddity' in space. In this book, he takes readers deep into...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023
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John Nichol tells the remarkable tale of how the ejection seat was first conceived during the Second World War as countless lives were lost in accidents and in battle. In the wake of the war, that technological race to save aircrew lives using explosive seats continued at an incredible pace. Nichol tells the story of the brave men who risked their lives testing those early devices, and interviewed the first British pilot to eject back in 1949, when...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2022
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Why does a man with a Ferrari and a Porsche drive a Fiat Panda? Is going fast really necessary? Is it your fault if you get run over? Why will electric cars really save the planet (possibly)? In 'Carbolics', the UK's favourite petrolhead (after Clarkson and Hammond) James May answers these questions and more. Across 80 essays, James gives his quirky, entertaining take on cars, motorbikes, trucks - and explains why the bicycle might just be the best...
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Virago
Pub. Date
2023
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When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots - a group then made up exclusively of men - had the right stuff. It was an era in which women were steered away from jobs in science and deemed too fragile for space flight. Eventually, though, NASA relented and opened the application process to everyone, regardless of race or gender. From a 1977 candidate pool...
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2024
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Guenther Steiner is one of motor racing's biggest and most celebrated characters, known to millions for his show-stealing appearances on Netflix's hugely popular fly on the wall series, 'Drive to Survive'. Uncompromising and searingly honest, and told in Steiner's inimitable style, this book is a fascinating and hugely entertaining account of the realities of running a Formula 1 team. This updated edition contains a chapter with Guenther's review...
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2021
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Right now, spacecraft are circling Mars, sweeping over Terra Sabaea, Syrtis Major, the dunes of Elysium and Mare Sirenum - on the brink, perhaps, of a discovery that would inspire humankind. With poetic precision, Sarah Stewart Johnson traces the evocative history of our explorations of Mars, interlacing her personal journey as a scientist with tales of other seekers who have scoured the planet for signs of life. Ultimately, she shows how its story...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
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The emergence of world-beating British sports car design from a climate of post-war austerity, setting the positive and vibrant tone of the Swinging Sixties, is taken stock of as a cultural phenomenon. An epic narrative charged with big characters and dense intrigue.
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TSO
Pub. Date
2022
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'The Official Highway Code' is seeing one of its biggest overhauls with new rules coming into force. It remains essential reading for any road user. Many rules are a legal requirement and, if you disobey them, you're committing a criminal offence. The 2022 changes include new rules on the hierarchy of road users.