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A true story. Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time, and the odds, to bring them home.
From renowned Mars visionary Robert Zubrin, this novel is filled with startling authenticity. First Landing follows humankind's first manned mission to Mars, a new frontier of undreamed-of possibilities-and nightmarish consequences... When the first exploratory mission to Mars is stranded, five scientists must save themselves. The race is on-not to see who will get credit for the mission or who will make the greatest discovery...but who will survive.
An engrossing guide to documented UFO sightings, alien abductions and related paranormal phenomena, including eyewitness accounts and photographic evidence. Presenting the latest research from top Ufologists worldwide, this comprehensive guide contains much information that's never been published before including rare admissions of UFO sightings from astronauts, government officials, and the military.
Emmons takes a look at the scientists who defy the taboo and study UFOs anyway, as well as the professional debunkers, whom he finds much less objective than their press releases let on. He then examines two reasons not to take debunking claims too seriously: mainstream science is now under attack from many quarters for being too ideological, and some conceptual developments in the new physics may make UFOs much easier to accept and explain, even within a scientific framework. The rest of the book is concerned with the nature of physical and eyewitness evidence and the debate between nuts-and-bolts ufologists and those with a New Age approach.
