To Touch the Sky
close menu
Bookswagon
search
My Account
Home > Transport technology and trades > Aerospace and aviation technology > To Touch the Sky
To Touch the Sky

To Touch the Sky


     0     
5
4
3
2
1



International Edition


X
About the Book

On the night of October 4, 1957, a polished metal sphere the size of a beach ball crossed the American sky, beeping in a language everyone understood: we are behind. Less than a year later a new civilian agency opened its doors, and within a single decade it had put twelve human beings on the surface of the Moon. This is the complete story of NASA and the exploration of space.

E.B Cohen begins in the panic of Sputnik and the rubble of Peenemünde, where the engineers who built Hitler's V-2 became the men who built the Saturn V. From the Mercury Seven strapped atop converted missiles, the narrative rises through Gemini's hard apprenticeship to the causeways of Apollo - the fire that killed three men on the pad, the Earthrise that changed how we see our planet, the seconds of fuel left as Armstrong searched for a place to land, and the lightning-in-a-bottle rescue of Apollo 13.

Then the story widens to the whole enterprise: the Space Shuttle and the two crews it killed, and the honest reckoning with why; the robots that became our emissaries - Viking on Mars, Voyager carrying a golden record into interstellar night, Cassini's plunge into Saturn, the little rover Opportunity that was built for ninety days and lasted fifteen years; the flawed mirror of Hubble and the spacewalkers who fixed it; the origami gold of the James Webb telescope unfolding a million miles from home; and the permanent human outpost circling the Earth sixteen times a day.

Cohen closes on the new space age - the pivot from a government monopoly to private rockets, the Dragon capsule that returned American launches to American soil, and the Artemis program that in April 2026 flew a crew around the Moon for the first time since 1972. Even-handed, vivid, and current, this is the definitive single-volume history of humanity's greatest adventure - and why we keep reaching for the sky.


Best Sellers


Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9798235312258
  • Publisher: E.B Cohen
  • Publisher Imprint: E.B Cohen
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 614
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 652 gr
  • ISBN-10: 8235312255
  • Publisher Date: 13 Aug 2026
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 35 mm
  • Width: 127 mm


Similar Products

Add Photo
Add Photo

Customer Reviews

REVIEWS      0     
Click Here To Be The First to Review this Product
To Touch the Sky
E.B Cohen -
To Touch the Sky
Writing guidlines
We want to publish your review, so please:
  • keep your review on the product. Review's that defame author's character will be rejected.
  • Keep your review focused on the product.
  • Avoid writing about customer service. contact us instead if you have issue requiring immediate attention.
  • Refrain from mentioning competitors or the specific price you paid for the product.
  • Do not include any personally identifiable information, such as full names.

To Touch the Sky

Required fields are marked with *

Review Title*
Review
    Add Photo Add up to 6 photos
    Would you recommend this product to a friend?
    Tag this Book Read more
    Does your review contain spoilers?
    What type of reader best describes you?
    I agree to the terms & conditions
    You may receive emails regarding this submission. Any emails will include the ability to opt-out of future communications.

    CUSTOMER RATINGS AND REVIEWS AND QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TERMS OF USE

    These Terms of Use govern your conduct associated with the Customer Ratings and Reviews and/or Questions and Answers service offered by Bookswagon (the "CRR Service").


    By submitting any content to Bookswagon, you guarantee that:
    • You are the sole author and owner of the intellectual property rights in the content;
    • All "moral rights" that you may have in such content have been voluntarily waived by you;
    • All content that you post is accurate;
    • You are at least 13 years old;
    • Use of the content you supply does not violate these Terms of Use and will not cause injury to any person or entity.
    You further agree that you may not submit any content:
    • That is known by you to be false, inaccurate or misleading;
    • That infringes any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
    • That violates any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising);
    • That is, or may reasonably be considered to be, defamatory, libelous, hateful, racially or religiously biased or offensive, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing to any individual, partnership or corporation;
    • For which you were compensated or granted any consideration by any unapproved third party;
    • That includes any information that references other websites, addresses, email addresses, contact information or phone numbers;
    • That contains any computer viruses, worms or other potentially damaging computer programs or files.
    You agree to indemnify and hold Bookswagon (and its officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures, employees and third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.), harmless from all claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of a breach of your representations and warranties set forth above, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.


    For any content that you submit, you grant Bookswagon a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable right and license to use, copy, modify, delete in its entirety, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and/or sell, transfer, and/or distribute such content and/or incorporate such content into any form, medium or technology throughout the world without compensation to you. Additionally,  Bookswagon may transfer or share any personal information that you submit with its third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc. in accordance with  Privacy Policy


    All content that you submit may be used at Bookswagon's sole discretion. Bookswagon reserves the right to change, condense, withhold publication, remove or delete any content on Bookswagon's website that Bookswagon deems, in its sole discretion, to violate the content guidelines or any other provision of these Terms of Use.  Bookswagon does not guarantee that you will have any recourse through Bookswagon to edit or delete any content you have submitted. Ratings and written comments are generally posted within two to four business days. However, Bookswagon reserves the right to remove or to refuse to post any submission to the extent authorized by law. You acknowledge that you, not Bookswagon, are responsible for the contents of your submission. None of the content that you submit shall be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of Bookswagon, its agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners or third party service providers (including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.)and their respective directors, officers and employees.

    Accept

    Fresh on the Shelf


    Inspired by your browsing history


    Your review has been submitted!

    You've already reviewed this product!
    Your IP: 216.73.217.2 IN