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"The gripping story of one scientist in outer space, another who watches over him, the family left behind, and the lengths people will go to protect the people and planet they love Scientist Alex Welch-Peters has believed for twenty years that his super-algae can reverse the effects of climate change. His obsession with his research has jeopardized his marriage, his relationships with his kids, and his own professional future. When Sensus, the colossal...

When scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis, they soon come face-to-face with a dark reality.

"A rich visual history of real and fictional space stations, illustrating pop culture's influence on the development of actual space stations and vice versa."--

In Canary Station, Jonesy and a few children have successfully survived after being attacked by a mysterious ship with an invasive computer virus. They reclaim and repair what they can, while hoping for a rescue. One day, as Jonesy is salvaging, an accident unleashes strange powers within her; almost immediately, a malevolent group of armored adults descend upon the ship. They kidnap everyone except for Jonesy, who uses her newfound power to hide....

Following a catastrophe on Earth, the planet is covered in a toxic fog. The crew in the space station must decide whether to risk their lives to get home and search for survivors, or stay safe in the station's algae symbiosis system.4

Discusses the need for the proposed international space station, its design, and purpose, based partly on experiences with space station Mir.

Overview: A novel of one of the strangest places imaginable, a place where hydrogen flows as a liquid, a place with a lightless ocean ten times wider than the entire earth, a place where cyclones larger than planets rage for centuries at a time. Grant Archer merely wanted to study astrophysics, to work quietly as an astronomer on the far side of the moon. But the forces of the New Morality, the coalition of censorious do-gooders who run twenty-first...

"Pell's Station, orbiting the alien world simply called Downbelow, had always managed to remain neutral in the ever escalating conflict between "The Company," whose fleets from Earth had colonized space, and its increasingly independent and rebellious colony worlds. But Pell's location,on the outer edge of Earth's defensive perimeter, makes her the focal point in the titanic battle of colony worlds fighting for independence."--Amazon

A lively, skill-building reader about daily life on the International Space Station shares engaging facts about how astronauts eat, sleep, and perform important work in a zero-gravity environment.