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PARI : as seen on Our State [videorecording].
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- Subjects: Video recordings.; Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute.;
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- Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute : an untold history of spacemen & spies / by Gralley, Craig R.,author.(CARDINAL)793271;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-154) and index.Spacemen : the National Aeronautics and Space Administration arrives in Rosman (1963-81) -- Spies : the National Security Agency assumes control (1981-95) -- Enter the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (1998-present).For six decades western North Carolinians have asked the question: "What are those big satellite dishes doing behind that chain-linked fence?" In the early years of the site near Rosman, NASA gave public tours of the antennas it used to track space satellites. When the defense department took over, the tours stopped. Signs were posted that read "Unauthorized Entry Prohibited" and armed guards patrolled the site. Wild myths took root. Underground tunnels held nuclear missiles. The site was a submarine base. A city built underground held captive space aliens. Then, suddenly, DoD departed. New owners dusted off the satellite dishes and pointed them into deepest space. Public tours at the new Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute were reestablished and programs were created for a brand new mission-- science education. Now, local author Craig Gralley tells PARI's full story.- Subjects: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; United States. National Security Agency; Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute; Astronautical laboratories; Geostationary satellites.; Tracking (Engineering);
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- To the stars and beyond [videorecording] : the story of the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute. by Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute.(CARDINAL)327234;
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- Subjects: Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute.; Radio astronomy;
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- Wings : flying over Highlands, Cashiers, Toxaway and beyond / by Turner, Nancy.; Stose, Gil,photographer.;
Flight Plan: Cashiers Crossroads -- Cashiers Lake -- High Hampton, Rock Mountain and Chimneytop -- Walhalla fish hatchery -- Chattooga River -- Whitewater Falls -- Horsepasture River (Drift, Turtle, Rainbow and Stairstep) -- Laurel Knob -- Fairfield Lake, Camp Marrie-Woods and Old Bald -- Sapphire -- Panthertown Valley -- Lake Toxaway and Toxaway Falls -- Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI) -- Dupont State Forest -- Looking Glass Rock -- Blue Ridge Parkway -- Pounding Mill Overlook -- Graveyard Fields -- Black Balsam -- Mt. Pisgah and The Pisgah Inn -- Devil's Courthouse -- Sylva and Dillsboro -- Tuckasegee Gorge -- Lakes, water and electricity (Tuckasegee power station, Tanasee, Wolf Creek, Bear Lake and Cedar Cliff) -- Lake Glenville -- Big Ridge -- Yellow Mountain -- Shortoff Mountain -- Cowee Gap overlook -- Whiteside Mountain -- Fool's Rock -- Devil's Courthouse -- Highlands -- The Bascom -- Satulah Mountain -- The Ravenels -- Horse Cove -- Highlands Country Club -- Scaly Mountain -- Rabun Bald -- Lake Sequoyah and Dry Falls -- Cullasaja Falls -- Farming around Franklin -- Index"Haven't there been times when you wished you had wings to fly above the earth and look down? Especially in our beautiful mountains? Times when you wanted to see the whole length of a waterfall, top to bottom? Or to look at what's on the side of that mountain without having to climb it? Well, come fly with us and we will give you WINGS." -- Introduction- Subjects: Illustrated works.;
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- A murder in Rat Alley / by De Castrique, Mark,author.(CARDINAL)280827;
Iraq War veteran Sam Blackman with his prosthetic leg and his no-nonsense private eye partner Nakayla Robertson love their investigations which always carry a thread from the past-and they love each other. An interracial couple in the new South, the Asheville, NC, pair has surrounded themselves with a terrific support team including an unorthodox lawyer and a veteran cop. They deploy humor both to bind them together and to deflect insults. Plus, it helps deal with the tragedies their work uncovers. Such a tragedy interrupts a meeting between the PIs and the neighboring law office when a body is unearthed from the grounds of the nearby Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute. During the Cold War it monitored developing space programs. Today it plays a vital role gathering weather and climate data. The body has been in the ground a long time. Why would its discovery spark off a new murder in Asheville's mountain music scene, the victim found amid the garbage of dark, dank Rat Alley? She was the fiancée of the man murdered long ago. But surely this case is more than a domestic drama playing out over time....- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Fiction.; Blackman, Sam (Fictitious character); Robertson, Nakayla (Fictitious character); Murder; Interracial dating; Private investigators; Cold cases (Criminal investigation);
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