Astrophysics Space Science category: 1588 books
Where the Universe Came From
How Einsteins relativity unlocks the past, present and future of the cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
How did it all begin? Where is it all going?
WHY GENERAL RELATIVITY LEAVES UNFINISHED BUSINESS WITH THE COSMOS
A little over a century ago, a young Albert Einstein presented his general theory of relativity to the world and utterly transformed our understanding of the universe. He overturned...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
This official NASA internal program document - converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction - is a comprehensive account of Gemini 12, the final mission of Project Gemini, the two-man orbital capsule that pioneered rendezvous and docking techniques used in the Apollo lunar landing...
The Telescope in the Ice
Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
IceCube Observatory, a South Pole instrument making the first actual observations of high-energy neutrinos, has been called the “weirdest” of the seven wonders of modern astronomy by Scientific American. In The Telescope in the Ice, Mark Bowen tells the amazing story of the people who built the...
Rocket Men
The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The riveting inside story of three heroic astronauts who took on the challenge of mankind’s historic first mission to the Moon, from the bestselling author of Shadow Divers.
“Robert Kurson tells the tale of Apollo 8 with novelistic detail and immediacy.”—Andy...
Magnificent Desolation
The Long Journey Home from the Moon
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
Forty years ago, Buzz Aldrin became the second human, minutes after Neil Armstrong, to set foot on a celestial body other than the Earth. The event remains one of mankind’s greatest achievements and was witnessed by the largest worldwide television audience in history. In the years since, millions...
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....
Abandoned in Place
Preserving America’s Space History
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Stenciled on many of the deactivated facilities at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the evocative phrase “abandoned in place” indicates the structures that have been deserted. Some structures, too solid for any known method of demolition, stand empty and unused in the wake of the early period...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
This NASA history document - converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction - tells the exciting story of the HL-10 NASA lifting body. From the foreword: The story we want to tell is a bit unique. The story of the development and flight testing of a unique aerospace vehicle—the horizontal...
by William Haloupek
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
This is one of a planned series called Calculations for Science Fiction Writers. Later chapters will include a relativistic version of this one, and others on circular orbits, elliptical orbits rotational dynamics, and more. For those writers who want to get the details right!
This article...
The Interstellar Age
Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
The story of the men and women who drove NASA’s Voyager spacecraft mission—the farthest-flung emissaries of planet Earth—told by a scientist who was there from the beginning.
Voyager 1 left our solar system in 2012; its sister craft, Voyager 2, did so in 2018. The fantastic journey began...
Starlight
An Introduction to Stellar Physics for Amateurs
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2009
This is a book about the physics of stars and starlight. The story of starlight is truly fascinating. Astronomers analyze and interpret the light from stars using photometry and spectroscopy, then inspirational detective work combines with the laws of physics to reveal the temperatures, masses, luminosities...
by Giuseppe Severino
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
This book equips the reader with a coherent understanding of the structure of the Sun and its evolution and provides all the knowledge required to construct a simplified model of the Sun.
The early chapters cover key aspects of basic physics and describe the Sun’s size, mass, luminosity,...
Big Shiny Moon! What's in a Spaceship - Space for Kids - Children's Aeronautics & Astronautics Books
Big Shiny Moon! What's in a Spaceship - Space for Kids - Children's Aeronautics & Astronautics Books
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
What wonderful adventure a spaceship ride would be! You can go to the moon and check if it’s made of cheese. You can ride along the stars and know if they shine as bright as they do. This educational resource will give you fun facts about the spaceship. The purpose is to fill your head with enough information to imagine an out-of-this-world learning adventure!
SpaceShipOne
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
“One of the most remarkable accomplishments in our conquest of gravity.” — Sir Arthur C. Clarke
In April, 2003, a company called Scaled Composites introduced SpaceShipOne to the world. SpaceShipOne: An Illustrated History chronicles the development of the world’s first commercial...