Astrophysics Space Science category: 1588 books
Time Travel and Warp Drives
A Scientific Guide to Shortcuts through Time and Space
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
To see video demonstrations of key concepts from the book, please visit this website: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/sites/timewarp/
Sci-fi makes it look so easy. Receive a distress call from Alpha Centauri? No problem: punch the warp drive and you're there in minutes. Facing a catastrophe that...
Chasing the Moon
The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
JFK issued the historic moon landing challenge. These are the stories of the visionaries who helped America complete his vision with the first lunar landing fifty years ago.
A Companion Book to the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE® Film on PBS®
Going in depth to explore their stories beyond the...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
This official NASA internal program document - converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction - is a comprehensive account of Project Gemini, the two-man orbital capsule that pioneered rendezvous and docking techniques used in the Apollo lunar landing missions.
by Stephen Petranek
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Award-winning journalist Stephen Petranek says humans will live on Mars by 2027. Now he makes the case that living on Mars is not just plausible, but inevitable.
It sounds like science fiction, but Stephen Petranek considers it fact: Within twenty years, humans will live on Mars. We’ll need...
by Chandra Wickramasinghe, Kamala Wickramasinghe
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
This is the story of the author's unique scientific journey with one of the most remarkable men of 20th century science. The journey begins in Sri Lanka, the author's native country, with his childhood acquaintance with Fred Hoyle's writings. The action then moves to Cambridge, where the famous Hoyle–Wickramasinghe...
The Universe Untangled
Modern Physics for Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Space curves around you, time slows down, particles are waves, a cat is both alive and dead. What's going on? It all starts to make sense when we untangle the universe with this clear and enlightening book. Day-dreamers and deep-thinkers, these are the concepts that will send your mind wandering to...
by Amir Levinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
This popular science book offers a glimpse into a plethora of extreme cosmic phenomena in which the theories of modern physics, particularly quantum mechanics and general relativity, play a key role. Despite their vastly different appearances, these cosmic phenomena have much in common: they are all...
by Paul Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Space elevators. Ring worlds. Dyson spheres. And much more beyond.The human race has always dreamed big. But how far can technology go? How big can our machines and artifacts get? In MEGASTRUCTURES: SCIENCE AND SPECULATION, we examine future technology concepts of the immensely big, as imagined...
Waiting for Contact
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
"A cogent, engaging history of humanity's most ambitious quest--seeking outward for other minds."--David Brin, author of Existence "A fascinating perspective on humankind's obsession for knowing if there is anyone else out there."--Gerrit L. Verschuur, author of The Invisible Universe: The Story of...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
The Sun as a Guide to Stellar Physics illustrates the significance of the Sun in understanding stars through an
examination of the discoveries and insights gained from solar physics research. Ranging from theories to modeling
and from numerical simulations to instrumentation and data processing, the...
SPACE2019
Das aktuelle Raumfahrtjahr mit Chronik 2019
Language: German
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Die 16. Ausgabe des Raumfahrt-Klassikers. Nehmen Sie teil am großen Abenteuer unserer Zeit... Raumfahrt im 21. Jahrhundert: Spannender als Science Fiction. In den SPACE-Jahrbüchern halten wir für Sie die aktuellen Entwicklungen in der Raumfahrt fest. Sachkundig, pointiert, aktuell und spannend...
by Michio Kaku
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2005
In paperback for the centenary of the discovery of relativity, "a fresh and highly visual tour through Einstein's astonishing legacy" (Brian Greene).
The year 2005 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of the paper that launched Einstein's career, made E=mc2 famous, and ushered...
by Kip Thorne
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1995
**Winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics
Ever since Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity burst upon the world in 1915 some of the most brilliant minds of our century have sought to decipher the mysteries bequeathed by that theory, a legacy so unthinkable in some respects that even...
Aliens
The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
In these lively and fascinating essays, scientists from around the world weigh in on the latest advances in the search for intelligent life in the universe and discuss just what that might look like. Since 2000, science has seen a surge in data and interest on several fronts related to E.T. (extraterrestrials);...