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Amazing Feats of Aerospace Engineering by
This book examines amazing feats of aerospace engineering, including the Saturn V moon rocket, the International Space Station, and the world's largest passenger jet. It also examines the engineers who made these projects a reality and traces the history of the discipline.
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Applied Science by
Contains over 300 alphabetically arranged articles on a broad range of applied-science fields ranging from long-established engineering fields to cutting-edge fields such as micro- and nanotechnologies, addressing applied sciences in areas as diverse as aerospace, communications, energy, information, medical, military, transportation, forensic, and even food technologies.
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Chasing Space by
Former football player, astronaut, and engineer, Leland Melvin recounts his career and achieving his dream of being in space.
Endurance by
Astronaut Scott Kelly shares details about his life, discussing his childhood in New Jersey, training, space missions, and more.
Exploring Space by
This title examines the exploration of space, taking the reader across the solar system. It examines the explorers who journeyed into Earth's orbit and beyond, and traces the development of the technology and techniques that made this exploration possible.
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Hidden Figures by
An account of the previously unheralded but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program describes how they were segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws in spite of their groundbreaking successes.
How to Live in Space by
An amusing and informative illustrated guide to life beyond our own planet that covers everything from training for and living in space to the future of space travel and tourism Now that suborbital space tourism is predicted to become a billion-dollar industry in the next ten years and NASA has announced its plans for landing humans on Mars in the 2030s, the dream of traveling and living in space is taking on new reality. But given that life on Earth can be complicated enough, how can we survive and thrive in the zero-gravity, absolute-zero far reaches of space?
Inside the International Space Station by
Offers a detailed look at the International Space Station, including its origins and each of the four phases of its development and construction.
Inside the Mars Rover by
Offers a detailed look at the space mission of the Mars Rover, including earlier explorations of Mars, the Pathfinder mission, the robots Spirit and Opportunity, and the Mars Science Laboratory.
Inside U. S. Spy Satellites by
Examines the history, technology, and uses of spy satellites, looking especially at the various reconnaissance satellite programs of the United States, from the mid-twentieth century to the early twenty-first century.
Packing for Mars by
The author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much can a person give up? How much weirdness can they take? What happens to you when you can't walk for a year? have sex? smell flowers? What happens if you vomit in your helmet during a space walk? Is it possible for the human body to survive a bailout at 17,000 miles per hour? To answer these questions, space agencies set up all manner of quizzical and startlingly bizarre space simulations. As the author discovers, it's possible to preview space without ever leaving Earth. From the space shuttle training toilet to a crash test of NASA's new space capsule (cadaver filling in for astronaut), she takes us on a surreally entertaining trip into the science of life in space and space on Earth.
Principles of Astronomy by
Provides students and researchers with an easy-to-understand introduction to the fundamentals of astronomy.
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Rocket Men by
Shares the inside story of the dangerous Apollo 8 mission, focusing on the lives of astronaut heroes Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders, while illuminating the political factors that prompted the decision to risk lives to save the Apollo program and define the space race.
Rocket Men by
Author Craig Nelson restores the mystery and majesty to an event that may have become too familiar for most people to realize what a stunning achievement it represented in planning, technology, and execution. Through interviews, 23,000 pages of NASA oral histories, and declassified CIA documents on the space race, Nelson creates a vivid and detailed account of the Apollo 11 mission. From the quotidian to the scientific to the magical, readers are taken right into the cockpit with Aldrin and Armstrong and behind the scenes at Mission Control.
Smithsonian Atlas of Space Exploration by
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Traces the history of space exploration from Ptolomy and Copernicus to the space shuttles and Mars missions of today, and explains the geography of space flight and the ways in which space travel was shaped by Cold War politics.
The Space Book Revised and Updated by
Describes 250 milestones in the history of space and astronomy, including the Big Bang, the birth of the Sun, celestial navigation, dark matter, the Hubble space telescope, and Cassini's exploration of Saturn.
Space exploration by
In this volume, readers will discover how the scientific theories of figures like Isaac Newton inspired the advancements of Hermann Oberth, a founder of modern astronautics, and Robert Hutchings Goddard, the father of modern rocketry. Mathematical equations and physics lessons explain the principles these pioneers shaped.
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Space Exploration by
This book covers incredible work being done in our solar system, ranging from the New Horizons Pluto mission to cutting-edge studies on comets, engine technology, and humanity's future journeys to Mars.
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The Unknown Universe by
A groundbreaking guide to the universe and how the latest deep-space discoveries are challenging what is known today explores how the 2013 Big Bang afterglow map released by the European Space Agency changes what we understand about everything from gravity and dark matter to black holes and what happened before the Big Bang.
A Visual Guide to Space Exploration by
An overview of the history of space exploration, with information on NASA, spacecraft, the moon landing, probes, and more.