Astrophysics Space Science category: 1588 books
Gravity's Fatal Attraction
Black Holes in the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Richly illustrated with the images from observatories on the ground and in space, and computer simulations, this book shows how black holes were discovered, and discusses our current understanding of their role in cosmic evolution. This second edition covers new discoveries made in the past decade,...
Light This Candle
The Life and Times of Alan Shepard
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
lan Shepard was the brashest, cockiest, and most flamboyant of America’s original Mercury Seven, but he was also regarded as the best. Intense, colorful, and dramatic—the man who hit a golf ball on the moon—he was among the most private of America’s public figures and, until his death in 1998,...
The Accidental Universe
The World You Thought You Knew
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
“Alan Lightman brings a light touch to heavy questions. Here is a book about nesting ospreys, multiple universes, atheism, spiritualism, and the arrow of time. Throughout, Lightman takes us back and forth between ordinary occurrences—old shoes and entropy, sailing far out at sea and the infinite...
by John Glenn, Nick Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 1999
He was the first astronaut to orbit the Earth. Nearly four decades later, as the world's oldest astronaut, his courage reveted a nation. But these two historical events only bracketed a life that covers the sweep of an extraordinary century.
John Glenn's autobiography spans the seminal events...
by Norman Mailer
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
For many, the moon landing was the defining event of the twentieth century. So it seems only fitting that Norman Mailer—the literary provocateur who altered the landscape of American nonfiction—wrote the most wide-ranging, far-seeing chronicle of the Apollo 11 mission. A classic chronicle of America’s...
Beyond Einstein's Unified Field
Gravity and Electro-Magnetism Redefined
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Veteran plasma physicist John Brandenburg reveals the new theory that finally accomplishes what Einstein failed to do: the GEM Unification Theory proves the mathematical and physical interrelation of the forces of gravity and electromagnetism! This theory vindicates Einstein's dedication to unifying...
Moondust
In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
In time for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing comes this edition of journalist Andrew Smith’s Moondust, now updated with a new Afterword, that tells the fascinating story of twelve astronauts who ventured to space, and his interviews with nine of the surviving men.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This book summarizes recent developments in the research area of quantum gravity phenomenology. A series of short and nontechnical essays lays out the prospects of various experimental possibilities and their current status. Finding observational evidence for the quantization of space-time was long...
by Andrew Rader
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
We are now at the cusp of settling other worlds. The timeline for a Mission to Mars is still over 20 years off, but it doesn't have to be. This book demonstrates why we should go to Mars, and why when we do going one-way - not to die, but to live - actually makes a lot of sense.
Simply put,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Neil Armstrong needs no introduction. He is a genuine American hero whose pathfinding aerospace endeavors extended well beyond his command of the epic Apollo 11 lunar landing mission in 1969. Few appreciate that he was involved in not one, but two life-or-death piloting situations prior to the moon...
Measuring the Universe
The Historical Quest to Quantify Space
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Suppose you and I still wondered whether all of the pinpoints of light in the night sky are the same distance from us. Suppose none of our contemporaries could tell us whether the Sun orbits the Earth, or vice versa, or even how large the Earth is. Suppose no one had guessed there are mathematical...
What Causes Gravity
& What Causes The Expanding Accelerating Universe
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
What is the cause of gravity? Why is the universe accelerating in its expansion? The answer to these questions and more shall be explained in a straightforward, easily understood way for all who would like to know. This is recommended reading for anyone interested in understanding the mechanism nature...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Milt Thompson's account of lessons to be learned involves aspects of the history of flight research at what was then called the Flight Research Center and its predecessor organizations— redesignated in 1976 the Hugh L. Dryden Flight Research Center. Many fascinating topics are covered: lifting bodies,...
Exoplanets
Diamond Worlds, Super Earths, Pulsar Planets, and the New Search for Life beyond Our Solar System
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
The past few years have seen an incredible explosion in our knowledge of the universe. Since its 2009 launch, the Kepler satellite has discovered more than two thousand exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. More exoplanets are being discovered all the time, and even more remarkable than...