Astronautics Space Science list 9

Satellites & Weapons of the Air Force Space Command

by Richard Lighthouse
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018

Rev 1D - This short ebook provides the author's opinions and provides additional evidence of the War Crimes and Treason that are occurring at the USAF Space Command. A simplified organizational chart showing the Squadrons that are involved with the daily operations and some of the internal structure....

The Case for Space

How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility

by Robert Zubrin
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019

A noted space expert explains the current revolution in spaceflight, where it leads, and why we need it.A new space race has begun. But the rivals in this case are not superpowers but competing entrepreneurs. These daring pioneers are creating a revolution in spaceflight that promises to transform...

NASA Space Technology Report: Antarctic Exploration Parallels for Future Human Planetary Exploration: The Role and Utility of Long Range, Long Duration Traverses

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NASA Space Technology Report: Antarctic Exploration Parallels for Future Human Planetary Exploration: The Role and Utility of Long Range, Long Duration Traverses

by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013

This report describes a two-day workshop at the NASA Johnson Space Center discussing lessons learned from traverses, driven largely by science objectives, in the Earth's polar regions. These lessons are viewed as contributing one facet of NASA's preparation to explore, over extended periods of time,...

Apollo and America's Moon Landing Program - Oral Histories of Managers, Engineers, and Workers (Set 6) Brock Stone, Ernst Stuhlinger, von Ehrenfried

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Apollo and America's Moon Landing Program - Oral Histories of Managers, Engineers, and Workers (Set 6) Brock Stone, Ernst Stuhlinger, von Ehrenfried

by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012

The fascinating oral histories of nineteen Apollo lunar program pioneers - converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction - provide new insights into this extraordinary effort, with vital observations about an era of space history that changed the world. The interviews divulge new information...

Future Spacecraft Propulsion Systems and Integration

Enabling Technologies for Space Exploration

by Paul A. Czysz, Claudio Bruno, Bernd Chudoba
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017

The updated and expanded third edition of this book focuses on the multi-disciplinary coupling between flight-vehicle hardware alternatives and enabling propulsion systems. It discusses how to match near-term and far-term aerospace vehicles to missions and provides a comprehensive overview of the...

Apollo and America's Moon Landing Program - Oral Histories of Managers, Engineers, and Workers (Set 2) - Including Cohen, Fendell, Frank, Fuqua, Garman, Gavin (Lunar Module Program Director)

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Apollo and America's Moon Landing Program - Oral Histories of Managers, Engineers, and Workers (Set 2) - Including Cohen, Fendell, Frank, Fuqua, Garman, Gavin (Lunar Module Program Director)

by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012

The fascinating oral histories of two dozen Apollo lunar program pioneers - converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction - provide new insights into this extraordinary effort, with vital observations about an era of space history that changed the world. The interviews divulge new...

Wings In Orbit: Scientific and Engineering Legacies of the Space Shuttle 1971-2010

Scientific and Engineering Legacies of the Space Shuttle 1971-2010

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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011

Wings in Orbit is an authoritative documentation of the many accomplishments of the NASA Space Shuttle Program. Starting with a foreword written by astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen, this compelling book provides accurate, authentic and easily understood accounts from NASA’s best...

The Spoken Word III: Recollections of Dryden's History - The Space Shuttle Years - Oral Histories from Major NASA Figures including Gordon Fullerton, Joseph Engle, Kenneth Szalai

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The Spoken Word III: Recollections of Dryden's History - The Space Shuttle Years - Oral Histories from Major NASA Figures including Gordon Fullerton, Joseph Engle, Kenneth Szalai

by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2015

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this is the third in a series of oral histories about NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center. This volume focuses on the space shuttle program and thus spans nearly three decades. Since the creation of the center's...

The Traveler's Guide to Space

For One-Way Settlers and Round-Trip Tourists

by Neil Comins
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017

If you have ever wondered about space travel, now you have the opportunity to understand it more fully than ever before. Traveling into space and even emigrating to nearby worlds may soon become part of the human experience. Scientists, engineers, and investors are working hard to make space tourism...

The Evolution of Space Suits

by Danica Kassebaum
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018

Design a flexible protective layer for a space suit. Space suits have come a long way. The look and function of space suits has evolved over time, but their purpose has always been the same--to keep astronauts safe. From the first suits worn during the Mercury missions, to the latest suits being tested...

Extreme: Outer Space

by Paul Beck
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012

Explore outer space from our solar system to the edges to the universe! Extreme: Outer Space pairs the most bizarre and mind-blowing facts about our planets with breathtaking images!

Into the Black

The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her

by Rowland White
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016

A book “no aviation buff will want to miss” (The Wall Street Journal) and “the perfect tale that educates as it entertains” (#1 bestselling author Clive Cussler), Into the Black recaptures the historic moments leading up to and the exciting story of the astronauts who flew the daring maiden...

Breaking the Chains of Gravity

The Story of Spaceflight before NASA

by Amy Shira Teitel
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015

NASA's history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the Moon in 1969. But America's space agency wasn't created in a vacuum. It was assembled from pre-existing parts, drawing together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer. In...

Engineering the Space Age: A Rocket Scientist Remembers - Aeronautical Engineering, Missiles, ICBMs, Manned Spacecraft, Mercury, Gemini, Space Shuttle, McDonnell Aircraft, Cyclogiro

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