Astrophysics Space Science category: 1588 books
Life in the Universe
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Astrobiology, the study of life and its existence in the universe, is now one of the hottest areas of both popular science and serious academic research, fusing biology, chemistry, astrophysics, and geology. In this masterful introduction, Lewis Dartnell explores its latest findings, and explores some...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
This recently released audit report of the NASA Office of Inspector General provides unique information about the challenges facing NASA as it hopes to extend the life of the International Space Station (ISS) through 2024.
Results - We found that while NASA has identified no major obstacles...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
This official NASA internal document - converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction - provides an interesting account of the development of spacewalking concepts for the Skylab space station program. Initially, EVA was required to allow the crew to service the solar physics experiments...
They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus
An Incurable Dreamer Builds the First Civilian Spaceship
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
This is a classic American tale of dreams and obsession--the suspenseful, brilliantly written account of one eccentric man’s hunger to open space travel to us all: to let us rocket into orbit, return to earth, and soar yet again--thus transforming space travel forever.
They All Laughed at...
StarTalk
Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
This illustrated companion to the popular podcast and National Geographic Channel show is an eye-opening journey for anyone curious about our universe, space, astronomy and the complexities of the cosmos.
For decades, beloved astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has interpreted science with...
A Journey Through The Universe:
A traveler's guide from the center of the sun to the edge of the unknown
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
There's a whole universe out there ... and this book is your journey into space.
Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interstellar space. You climb in, blast into orbit, fly out of the solar system and keep going. Where do you end up, and what do you see along the way?
The...
History of the Space Shuttle, Volume Two
Development of the Space Shuttle, 1972-1981
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Basing his work on virtually untapped NASA archives, T. A. Heppenheimer has produced the second volume of his definitive history of the space shuttle. Volume Two traces the development of the shuttle through a decade of engineering setbacks and breakthroughs, program-management challenges, and political...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
This is the NASA Mishap Investigation Board (MIB) report released to the public in February 2014 about the serious problem encountered with a spacesuit during a space station spacewalk in July 2013. Roughly 44 minutes into EVA 23, Luca Parmitano (EV2) reported water inside his helmet, on the back...
by Thomas Bridge
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This is a partial summary of the ongoing quest by mankind to
understand who he is, where he came from, how he relates to what his
senses tell him about his physical and social environment.
Does the continuum of change he experiences have a purpose other than
what he...
by Erik Seedhouse
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
For centuries the British developed a reputation as a nation of explorers. From Francis Drake’s circumnavigation of the globe to the ascent of Everest, British explorers crossed oceans and continents and ventured where few, if any, had gone before. Until very recently, that legacy of exploration...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2012
This official NASA history document - converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction - is a review of the management of the Saturn launch vehicle program which successfully developed America's Apollo moon rocket.
Management of the Saturn launch vehicles was an evolutionary process,...
Unified Field Mechanics
Natural Science Beyond the Veil of SpacetimeProceedings of the IX Symposium Honoring Noted French Mathematical Physicist Jean-Pierre Vigier
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Unified Field Mechanics, the topic of the 9th international symposium honoring noted French mathematical physicist Jean-Pierre Vigier cannot be considered highly speculative as a myopic critic might surmise. The 8th Vigier Symposium proceedings "The Physics of Reality" should in fact be...
by Associated Press
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
On April 24, 1990, after years of planning and delays, the Space Shuttle Discovery lifted the Hubble Space Telescope into an orbit 350 miles above Earth. During the next 25 years, Hubble opened a new and unimaginably beautiful universe for mankind. Here, The Associated Press provides a unique look at the 25-year story of Hubble, through the eyes of its reporting and its stunning photography.
by Jaan Einasto
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The concepts of dark matter and the cosmic web are some of the most significant developments in cosmology in the past century. They have decisively changed the classical cosmological paradigm, which was first elaborated upon during the first half of the 20th century but ran into serious problems in...