Astrophysics Space Science category: 1588 books
Rocket Billionaires
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Featured on NPR and PBS’s SciTech Now**, and in** Fast Company**,** Forbes**, and the** Wall Street Journal
The inside story of the new race to conquer space
For the outsize personalities staking their fortunes on spaceships, the new race to explore space could be a dead end, a lucrative...
by Stephen Sandford, Jay Heinrichs
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
THE ANSWER TO AMERICA’S RENEWAL LIES DIRECTLY ABOVE US.The Gravity Well reveals an astronomical mystery while offering the best promise for our nation’s future. What is the Gravity Well?A deep hole in space,A force that presses us to Earth,An obstacle stretching a million miles up...
Spaceplane HERMES
Europe's Dream of Independent Manned Spaceflight
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
This is the first comprehensive book on the European Hermes program. It tells the fascinating story of how Europe aimed for an independent manned spaceflight capability which was to complement US and Soviet/Russian space activities. In 1975, France decided to expand its plans for automated satellites...
by Ross Abotteen
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
From his birth on the West Bank of the Jordan River in Palestine in 1950 to present-day Texas, A Space Mind narrates the story of Ross Abotteen. This memoir explores the transitions of his life and his views, sharing his experiences from his birthplace in the Holy Land through Saudi Arabia and onto...
The Universe in a Mirror
The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most stunning images of the cosmos humanity has ever seen. It has transformed our understanding of the universe around us, revealing new information about its age and evolution, the life cycle of stars, and the very existence of black holes, among other...
Burt Rutan's Race to Space
The Magician of Mojave and His Flying Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2011
Years ago, Burt Rutan told a reporter for Popular Mechanics, “If we make a courageous decision like the goal and program we kicked off for Apollo in 1961, we will see our children or grandchildren in outposts on other planets.” Legendary science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clark would later recall...
Summary and Analysis of Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Based on the Book by Margot Lee Shetterly
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
So much to read, so little time? Get an overview of Hidden Figures, the true story about the African American female mathematicians who helped NASA win the space race.
Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures tells the incredible real-life account of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
With extensive and informative excerpts gathered from over three dozen NASA history and reference publications, this unique compilation provides unprecedented insight into the life and work of Dr. Wernher von Braun on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth in 1912. It includes comprehensive...
Virgin Galactic
The First Ten Years
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Thirty years ago when Sir Richard Branson called up Boeing and asked if they had a spare 747, few would have predicted the brash entrepreneur would so radically transform the placid business of air travel. But today, Branson flies airlines on six continents, employs hundreds of jets and, in 2014,...
Concepts of Space
The History of Theories of Space in Physics: Third, Enlarged Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Historical surveys of the concept of space consider Judeo-Christian ideas, Newtonian absolute space, perceptions from 18th century to the present, and more. This scholarly work features numerous original quotations and bibliographical references, including original-language excerpts and translations...
Beyond Earth
Our Path to a New Home in the Planets
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
From a leading planetary scientist and an award-winning science writer, a propulsive account of the developments and initiatives that have transformed the dream of space colonization into something that may well be achievable.
We are at the cusp of a golden age in space science, as increasingly...
The Survival Imperative
Using Space to Protect Earth
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Using Space to Save Earth
Veteran science journalist William E Burrows offers a bold new mission for the U.S. space program: to protect the Earth from the ever-growing number of perils that threaten our way of life – and even our very survival.
We are living through one of the most...
by Matthew H Burch
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Have you ever wondered why NASA and other space agencies have been telling us that moving payloads outside Earth orbit is so hard? The short answer is the rocket equation. The long answer is that space propulsion was focused on two major methods, carrying the fuel with the payload, or collecting propulsive...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this is an excellent history of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center. This volume adds another dimension to the existing literature about the history of the Hugh L. Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC). This is the...