Astronautics category: 1620 books
Shock & Vibration, Aircraft/Aerospace, Energy Harvesting, Acoustics & Optics, Volume 9
Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Shock & Vibration, Aircraft/Aerospace and Energy Harvesting, Volume 9: Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, *A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2017, *the ninth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
This two-part compilation provides up-to-date information about military unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).
Department of Defense Report to Congress on Addressing Challenges for Unmanned Aircraft Systems - In lieu of creating an executive agent for UAS, the Deputy Secretary of Defense (DepSecDef)...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
This official NASA document - converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction - provides an interesting review of NASA's experience working with the Russians and lessons on astronaut safety assurance of the Soyuz spacecraft. This report on Soyuz history was conceived as a possible analogy...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
This is a comprehensive history of the origin and development of the cruise missile, one of the most important weapons in the American arsenal. Contents: Chapter 1 - Introduction * Chapter 2 - The Early Years: To 1941 * Chapter 3 - World War 2 * Chapter 4 - Postwar Developments * Chapter 5 - Us Cruise...
by Chris Impey
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
“Expansive and enlightening. . . . Impey packs his prose with wonderful anecdotes and weird factoids.”—New York Times Book Review
Human exploration has been an unceasing engine of technological progress, from the first homo sapiens to leave our African cradle to a future in which mankind...
The Future of Humanity
Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind traverses the frontiers of astrophysics, artificial intelligence, and technology to offer a stunning vision of man's future in space, from settling Mars to traveling to distant galaxies.**
We are entering...
Surrounded By Thunder
The Story of Darrell Loan and the Rocketmen
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
When Darrell Loan graduates from University of Iowa in 1957 with an aeronautical engineering degree, he has no idea his first job at the Sperry Corporation will land him a top job at NASA in the next five years. After the successful launch of Americas first satellite, NASA is formed. Darrell works side...
by Robert Gandt
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In FLY LOW FLY FAST, Robert Gandt takes us into the high-risk world of Unlimited Air Racing, following two consecutive championships at the Reno National Air Races. Flying wingtip to wingtip around pylons at nearly 500 mph, just a few feet above the sagebrush, Reno's big throaty warbirds are...
by Robert Zimmerman
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
It was Christmas Eve 1968. And the astronauts of Apollo 8 - Commander Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders - were participants in a mission that took them faster (24,000 mph) and farther from the earth (240,000 miles) than any human had ever traveled. Apollo 8 was the mission that broke humanity's...
Topics in Nonlinear Dynamics, Volume 1
Proceedings of the 31st IMAC, A Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Topics in Nonlinear Dynamics, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 31st IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2013, the first volume of seven from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and...
The The Simple Science of Flight
From Insects to Jumbo Jets
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
From the smallest gnat to the largest aircraft, all things that fly obey the same aerodynamic principles. In The Simple Science of Flight, Henk Tennekes investigates just how machines and creatures fly: what size wings they need, how much energy is required for their journeys, how they cross deserts...
Mars Rover Curiosity
An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
The firsthand account of the trials and tribulations of engineering one of the most complex pieces of space technology, the Mars Rover Curiosity, by its chief engineer Rob Manning
In the course of our enduring quest for knowledge about ourselves and our universe, we haven't found answers to...
by Howard D. Curtis, Ph.D., Purdue University
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013
Written by Howard Curtis, Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Embry-Riddle University, Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students is a crucial text for students of aerospace engineering. Now in its 3e, the book has been brought up-to-date with new topics, key terms, homework exercises, and fully...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Since the founding of the Dryden Flight Research Center History Office in 1996, its staff has conducted nearly a hundred interviews with retired and serving employees. Their recollections represent a unique resource in understanding the development of aerospace technology in the second half of the...