Astrophysics Space Science category: 1588 books

Have Fun Exploring the Stars with Close-up Views of Space Objects Right from Your Own Backyard Take the mystery and struggle out of discovering new worlds. With hands-on tips, tricks and instructions, this book allows you to unleash the full power of your small telescope and view amazing space...

Chapter 1. - We know that the Big Bang of 13 billion years ago saw the birth of the sun and many other planets. The Big Bang and historical evidence of the sun from Newgrange to Maeshowe. What powers the Sun?Chapter 2. - The sun which is 90 million miles away from the earth is our own star. The sun’s...

This book makes good background reading for much of modern magnetospheric physics. Its origin was a Festspiel for Professor Jim Dungey, former professor in the Physics Department at Imperial College on the occasion of his 90th birthday, 30 January 2013. Remarkably, although he retired 30 years ago,...

The subject of the book is helium, the element, and its use in myriad applications including MRI machines, particle accelerators, space telescopes, and of course balloons and blimps. It was at the birth of our Universe, or the Big Bang, where the majority of cosmic helium was created; and stellar...

In recent decades, the number of satellites being built and launched into Earth’s orbit has grown immensely, alongside the field of space engineering itself. This book offers an in-depth guide to engineers and professionals seeking to understand the technologies behind Low Earth Orbit satellites. With...

Radio spectrum for commanding and recording from our satellites is a shared resource with subtle hurdles. We walk the path originally paved by AMSATs to discuss the steps and licensing needed to set up and operate both a command uplink and a data download station and network. Find out how playing nicely with others maximizes your ability to get your data down.

This book develops a credible scenario for interstellar exploration and colonization. In so doing, it examines: • the present situation and prospects for interstellar exploration technologies; • where to go: the search for habitable planets; • the motivations for space travel and colonization; •...

Here is Dr. Wernher von Braun’s incredible story – from his early years in Germany, where he gave birth to modern rocketry, to his arrival in the United States and his launching of the first American satellite, the first man on the moon and other stunning space exploration feats. “Every page...

This unique NASA report provides information and lessons learned from shuttle avionics testing constraints. Objective - Consolidate within one report the operational Constraints and Considerations for launch site testing of the present Shuttle Avionics systems. Constraint - Testing that requires special...

lanets in the Solar System. Is it just the case that all they have found are uninteresting collections of gas, rocks, ice and dust? This book will “take you on a journey” to the Moon, Mars, Saturn and the Sun, to view some of the anomalies that, it would appear, taxpayer-funded space agencies...

Of Clocks and Time takes readers on a five-stop journey through the physics and technology (and occasional bits of applications and history) of timekeeping. On the way, conceptual vistas and qualitative images abound, but since mathematics is spoken everywhere the book visits equations, quantitative...

Everyone seems to be thinking about Mars nowadays. NASA plans to have humans on Mars by 2030 while SpaceX wants to do it sooner, by 2024. Mars is a common theme in Hollywood. There are movies like The Martian and Life that speculate how life may be on the red planet. None of these movies, however,...

This book describes the history of this now iconic room which represents America’s space program during the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz and early Space Shuttle eras. It is now a National Historic Landmark and is being restored to a level which represents the day the flight control teams...

Lucianus of Samosata lived in the second century A.D. He wrote many texts in Greek, of which more than eighty are still extant. One of these texts is his "True History", his "monument of lies". In it he asserts: "One thing I confidently pronounce for a truth, that I lie"....