Michael Collins

Gaia Moore, the girl without the fear gene, is used to being considered a freak of nature. She's not like other girls. She discovers that her missing father is in Siberia and is off to try and free him.

The story of history's greatest adventure told by the man who was there. 'Nine seconds before lift-off, the five first-stage engines of the Saturn ignited - a thrust of seven and a half million pounds' and man was on his way to the moon. Michael Collins, one of the three-man crew of the Apollo II flight describes this historic trip, his career as a test pilot, the astronaut training schedule and the first landing on the moon. A real life adventure which makes enthralling reading.

This is a review and reference guide for all the video game systems released in the U.S.A. between 1985-2002. It gives a review, a rarity listing, and a price for each game reviewed. The games covered are from the 8 bit era and later, up to but excluding PlayStation games, in alphabetic order by system, and by game. It also reviews unlicensed games, and limited release games such as those for the NES Aladdin Deck Enhancer and import Sachen games. The Nintendo 64 coverage ends with the release of "The Powerpuff Girls: Chemical X-Traction" in late 2001, and later games like 'Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3' aren't listed. The book has many cover scans of the games artwork, but unlike the Amazon.com and Google.com previews of the book, these images aren't in color but in grey scale. It was originally a print on demand book. This was going to be the first in a long series of books, 6 other books are listed as coming soon but were never published. At the bottom of each page in small print is a game fact.

In this entrancing account, space traveler Michael Collins recalls his early days as an Air Force test pilot, his astronaut training at NASA, and his unparalleled experiences in orbit, including the Apollo 11 mission, the first manned lunar landing. The final chapter to his autobiography, revised and updated for this edition of Flying to the Moon, is an exciting and convincing argument in favor of mankind's continued exploration of our universe. "Several astronauts have written about their experiences, but none so well as Michael Collins...This is just the book to give the child whose parents made Yeager and The Right Stuff best sellers."-The Washington Post Book World : "GoogleBooks"