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The Ticketless Traveler: Outer Space!

by Billy Parrott, Managing Librarian, Mid-Manhattan Library, Art and Picture Collections
March 14, 2011

Long before Forrest Ackerman coined the term Sci-Fi man had imagined escaping the confines of this planet and exploring the vast unknown regions of outer space. 

Space tourism is a burgeoning field but with a cost of about $20 million for a window seat it is a trip that most of us will never make.

My suggestion is to settle on the next best thing: a visit to your local library!

Here is a list of materials to make you feel as if you're traveling through space, or at the very least, on another planet. 

So without further ado:

three, two, one,

lift off.

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LIVE from the NYPL, Richard Holmes: Post Event Wrap-Up

by Ryan P. Donovan, Mid-Manhattan Library
March 17, 2010

The LIVE from the NYPL program featuring Richard Holmes in conversation with Paul Holdengräber was off to a rocky start last night; the technology controlling the microphones kept malfunctioning. Mr. Holmes joked that it probably had "something to do with homeland security." This prompted a few chuckles from the crowd. When the microphone started acting up again twenty minutes later, Richard commented, "this gives new meaning to [part of] the subtitle of the book; ‘the Beauty and Terror of Science.'" At this point, he had the audience roaring with laughter. On hand to talk about his new book, The Age of Wonder, two things could be gleaned from an 

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