Astrophysics Space Science category: 1588 books
by James J Kolata
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, published in 1915, made a remarkable prediction: gravitational radiation.
Just like light (electromagnetic radiation), gravity could travel through space as a wave and affect any objects it encounters by alternately compressing and expanding them....
Balungi's Approach to Quantum Gravity
Pursuing a Nobel Prize
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
While Quantum mechanics and General Relativity are both highly successful, these two structures leave a lot of important questions unanswered. They are also based on two different interpretations of space and time, and are therefore fundamentally incompatible. We have two descriptions but, as far...
A Brief History of Radio Astronomy in the USSR
A Collection of Scientific Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
This translation of A Brief History of Radio Astronomy in the USSR makes descriptions of the antennas and instrumentation used in the USSR, the astronomical discoveries, as well as interesting personal backgrounds of many of the early key players in Soviet radio astronomy available in the English...
SPACE2017
Das aktuelle Raumfahrtjahr mit Chronik 2016
Language: German
Release Date: November 26, 2016
Die 14. 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 Buzz Aldrin, Wayne Warga
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s courageous, candid memoir of his return to Earth after the historic moon landing and his personal struggle with fame and depression.
“We landed with all the grace of a freight elevator,” Buzz Aldrin relates in the opening passages of Return to Earth,...
Moonbound
Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
On a summer night in 1969, two men climbed down a ladder onto a sea of dust at the edge of an ancient dream. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on lunar soil, the moon ceased to be a place of mystery and myth. It became a destination.
Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of that...
The Voyager Record
A Transmission
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Late summer 1977: two identical robotic spacecraft launch from Cape Canaveral. Their divergent paths through the solar system take them past gas giants, icy moons, asteroid belts, and eventually into the unknown of interstellar space. There, they will continue to travel on forever, the fastest moving...
Thirteen
The Apollo Flight That Failed
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
An “exciting” minute-by-minute account of the Apollo 13 flight based on mission control transcripts from Houston (The New York Times).
On the evening of April 13, 1970, the three astronauts aboard Apollo 13 were just hours from the third lunar landing in history. But as they soared through...
Parallel Worlds
A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2006
In this thrilling journey into the mysteries of our cosmos, bestselling author Michio Kaku takes us on a dizzying ride to explore black holes and time machines, multidimensional space and, most tantalizing of all, the possibility that parallel universes may lay alongside our own.
Kaku skillfully...
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
The New York Times bestseller: “You gotta read this. It is the most exciting book about Pluto you will ever read in your life.”—Jon Stewart
When the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History reclassified Pluto as an icy comet, the New York Times proclaimed...
Rocket Men
The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
A New York Times Bestseller
"Celebrates a bold era when voyaging beyond the Earth was deemed crucial to national security and pride."
-The Wall Street Journal
Restoring the drama, majesty, and sheer improbability of an American triumph, this is award-winning historian Craig...
Endless Universe
Beyond the Big Bang
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
**Two world-renowned scientists present an audacious new vision of the cosmos that “steals the thunder from the Big Bang theory.” —**Wall Street Journal
The Big Bang theory—widely regarded as the leading explanation for the origin of the universe—posits that space and time sprang...
by Jason P Doherty
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2017
We are going to travel to the stars. I'd like to help get us there. In the interest of that, I offer this theory, and the accompanying inventions and ideas to humanity. Please take it from here. Thank you.This brief document is intended for those who understand superconductors and particle...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
This official NASA history document - converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction - provides a fascinating look at NASA's research program using the YF-12. Contents: Chapter 1: YF-12 Design and Development * Chapter 2: Joint USAF/ NASA YF-12 Research * Chapter 3: Heating and Loads...