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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Eleven-year-old Mira Okafor has spent the last six months earning real trust at Shackleton Base. Now Earth wants her - and the rest of the crew - to help solve the strangest mystery the base has ever uncovered.Buried deep in two-billion-year-old ice, a trace of processed metal shouldn't exist at all. When the excavation survey begins, Mira and her friends find something far stranger than an anomaly: a sealed structure, fifty-three years old, deliberately left off every record anyone has ever found.Director Osei arrives from Earth with more caution than answers, certain the site hides something an old institution worked very hard to bury. As the team digs deeper - through a structural collapse, a dangerous rescue, and a logbook that stops mid-sentence - they piece together the story of an accident, a warning that went ignored, and the people who paid for it.What they uncover isn't a mystery about impossible science. It's a mystery about a decision someone made a long time ago, and what it costs when the truth stays buried instead of being learned from.Grounded in real impact geology, archival science, and the true, ongoing history of engineers who spoke up and weren't heard, The Sealed Record is a story about honesty, institutional accountability, and what it means to finally set the record straight. Each chapter closes with a Field Note connecting the story to real science and history.Book Three in the Shackleton Base series. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Eleven-year-old Mira Okafor has a real job now at Shackleton Base - but nothing has prepared her for watching her own mother suit up for the base's first crewed spaceflight.The launch window opens in fourteen days. It stays open for three. Miss it, and the next chance doesn't come for another four months - orbital mechanics doesn't negotiate, and neither does the calendar.When a flaw is discovered deep inside the Ferry's ascent system days before liftoff, Mira and her friend Dae-Jung are pulled into the fix - not as an exception this time, but because they've earned it. Under pressure, Mira has to learn a harder lesson than the one that shaped her before: sometimes the bravest thing isn't asking for help. It's speaking up before you're sure you need it.Meanwhile, deep in a two-billion-year-old ice core, something is waiting that shouldn't exist at all.Grounded in real orbital mechanics and spaceflight engineering, The Narrow Window is a story about trust, honesty, and the kind of pressure that doesn't bend just because you need it to. Each chapter closes with a short science note connecting the story to real spaceflight research.Book Two in the Shackleton Base series. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A Shackleton Base Story - Hub Era, Book TwoShackleton Base is racing to build something new: solar collectors manufactured on the Moon and launched into orbit, where sunlight never has to fight through an atmosphere or a night cycle. But Halcyon Dynamics isn't the only company chasing the idea. Forty kilometers away, a rival - Meridian Orbital - is building the exact same thing, on the exact same deadline.Nobody at either company wants to admit it, but the two operations are sharing a lot more than a launch schedule. When Mira Okafor and her crew flag an untracked object drifting near the deployment corridor, both sides shrug it off as somebody else's problem. Halcyon's liaison says it's probably Meridian's. Meridian's liaison says it's probably Halcyon's. Nobody's lying. Nobody's watching, either - until the gap between two competing companies nearly costs two people their lives.With days left before the next crewed launch, Mira, Alex, and the rest of the crew have to do something neither company has managed on its own: get two rivals to trust a shared fix, before the sky above Shackleton runs out of room for two separate stories about who's responsible for what.Nobody's the villain here. That's what makes it hard.Grounded in real research on orbital debris tracking, space-based solar power, and how competing companies coordinate - or fail to - on shared safety infrastructure, The Shared Sky continues the Shackleton Base series with the same rigor, the same crew, and a question that gets harder to answer the higher the stakes climb: what do two rivals actually owe each other, once they're standing under the same sky? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Six days ago, Alex didn't know anyone at Shackleton Base. Now there's a whole system running differently because of one question he asked.The lunar base Alex's family just relocated to looks nothing like the quiet research outpost in the old photos. Humanoid robots work construction alongside human crews. AI-coordinated printers turn moon dust into buildings in real time. Production targets climb every quarter - and somewhere along the way, the human review time built into all that automation has been quietly shrinking, one small cut at a time, with nobody noticing except the kid who just got here.Mira Okafor has spent two years earning trust at Shackleton. She knows better than anyone how easy it is to stop seeing the thing you walk past every day. When Alex's question turns into a near-miss that almost hurts someone she knows, Mira, Alex, and the rest of the crew have to do more than sound an alarm - they have to prove, with real numbers and a real fix, that a company chasing production targets should still make room to slow down.Nobody's the villain here. That's what makes it hard.Grounded in real research on lunar manufacturing, humanoid robotics, and how organizations decide how much to trust their own automated systems, The First Shift opens a new chapter in the Shackleton Base series - same base, same rigor, a crew that's grown, and a question every reader will recognize: how do you know something's actually fine, instead of just being told it is? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…