Astronomy category: 2403 books
How Long is Now?
Fascinating answers to 191 Mind-boggling questions
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Big or small, there's an answer to every question, and sometimes there are even a few!
How long is "now"? The short answer is "somewhere between 2 and 3 seconds." The long answer involves an incredible journey through neuroscience, our subconscious and the time-bending power...
Deke! U.S. Manned Space
From Mercury To the Shuttle
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1995
Deke Slayton was one of the first seven Mercury astronauts--and he might have been the first American in space. Instead, he became the first chief of American Astronaut Corps. It was Deke Slayton who selected the crews who flew the Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab missions. It was Deke Slayton who made...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2011
This unique Saturn V Flight Manual, written for the astronauts flying the mammoth Apollo moon rocket, has fascinating information about flight systems, events, and crew interactions. This document, produced for the Apollo 8 first manned Saturn V mission, has a special level of extraordinary technical...
The 4 Percent Universe
Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
The epic, behind-the-scenes story of an astounding gap in our scientific knowledge of the cosmos.
In the past few years, a handful of scientists have been in a race to explain a disturbing aspect of our universe: only 4 percent of it consists of the matter that makes up you, me, our books,...
The Sun's Heartbeat
And Other Stories from the Life of the Star That Powers Our Planet
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
The beating heart of the sun is the very pulse of life on earth. And from the ancients who plotted its path at Stonehenge to the modern scientists who unraveled the nuclear fusion reaction that turns mass into energy, humankind has sought to solve its mysteries. In this lively biography of the sun,...
by Rick Novy
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
With drama equal to any fiction, this article explores the story of how a major research institution came into being at the top of a mountain at the end of the 19th Century.
In Search of Stardust
Amazing Micrometeorites and Their Terrestrial Imposters
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Tiny pieces of space rock called micrometeorites are everywhere on Earth. In Search of Stardust shows you how to find them and keep them safe.
The solar system is a dusty place. Every day approximately 100 metric tons of cosmic dust collides with Earth, mainly in the form of micrometeorites....
Lights In the Sky & Little Green Men
A Rational Christian Look at UFOs and Extraterrestrials
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2002
Lights in the Sky and Little Green Men presents a fresh look at UFOs and extraterrestrials. Working from a rational Christian worldview, authors Hugh Ross, Kenneth Samples, and Mark Clark initiate a search for truth to answers about extraterrestrial life, conspiracy theories, cult groups, alien encounters,...
Star-Craving Mad
Tales from a travelling astronomer
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Fred Watson knows all about the madness that drives people to understand the Universe and unlock its secrets.
Now you can join Australia's best-known astronomer on a unique tour to unravel the mysteries of space and time. Take in primitive observatories in ancient Peru and the world's largest...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
This official NASA history series document - converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction - contains the journal of NASA's first administrator, T. Keith Glennan, appointed in August 1958. It reveals the inner workings of the agency as it struggled to gain a foothold amid the politics...
Mars Landing 2012
Inside the NASA Curiosity Mission
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
National Geographic presents the science, the goals, and the anticipation of humankind’s most ambitious planetary expedition ever: the Curiosity mission to Mars. On August 6, 2012 (EST), NASA’s Curiosity spacecraft will complete its 255-day, 354-million-mile journey and plunge down into Gale...
Before This Decade Is Out
Personal Reflections on the Apollo Program
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
On July 24, 1969, the astronauts of Apollo XI splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, having triumphantly answered John F. Kennedy's 1961 challenge to land an American on the moon "before this decade is out." Behind their success lay the cooperative efforts of political leaders, engineers, scientists, administrators,...
Red Rover
Inside the Story of Robotic Space Exploration, from Genesis to the Mars Rover Curiosity
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
For centuries humankind has fantasized about life on Mars, whether it’s intelligent Martian life invading our planet (immortalized in H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds) or humanity colonizing Mars (the late Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles). The Red Planet’s proximity and likeness to...
by Andrew Rader
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
We are now at the cusp of settling other worlds. The timeline for a Mission to Mars is still over 20 years off, but it doesn't have to be. This book demonstrates why we should go to Mars, and why when we do going one-way - not to die, but to live - actually makes a lot of sense.
Simply put,...