Télécharger le livre :  Rocket Ranch
Jonathan Ward takes the reader deep into the facilities at Kennedy Space Center to describe NASA’s first computer systems used for spacecraft and rocket checkout and explain how tests and launches proceeded. Descriptions of early operations include a harrowing account...

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Télécharger le livre :  Humans in Space
Awarded the 2016 International Academy of Astronautics Life Science Book Award!Using anecdotal reports from astronauts and cosmonauts, and the results from studies conducted in space analog environments on Earth and in the actual space environment, this book broadly...

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Parution : 2015-06-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Astronomical Discoveries You Can Make, Too!
You too can follow in the steps of the great astronomers such as Hipparchus, Galileo, Kepler and Hubble, who all contributed so much to our modern understanding of the cosmos. This book gives the student oramateur astronomer the following tools to replicate some of...

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Télécharger le livre :  SEAFLOOR OBSERVATORIES
The oceans cover 70% of the terrestrial surface, and exert a pervasive influence on the Earth's environment but their nature is poorly recognized. Knowing the ocean's role deeply and understanding the complex, physical, biological, chemical and geological systems...

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Télécharger le livre :  Friendship 7
In this spellbinding account of an historic but troubled orbital mission, noted space historian Colin Burgess takes us back to an electrifying time in American history, when intrepid pioneers were launched atop notoriously unreliable rockets at the very dawn of human...

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Parution : 2015-04-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Survival and Sacrifice in Mars Exploration
With current technology, a voyage to Mars and back will take threeyears. That’s a lot of time for things to go wrong. But sooner or latera commercial enterprise will commit itself to sending humans to Mars.How will the astronauts survive? Some things to consider are:ith...

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Télécharger le livre :  Virgin Galactic
Thirty years ago when Sir Richard Branson called up Boeing and asked if they had a spare 747, few would have predicted the brash entrepreneur would so radically transform the placid business of air travel. But today, Branson flies airlines on six continents, employs...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Cassini-Huygens Visit to Saturn
Cassini-Huygens was the most ambitious and successful space journey ever launched to the outer Solar System. This book examines all aspects of the journey: its conception and planning; the lengthy political processes needed to make it a reality; the engineering and...

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Télécharger le livre :  Planet Mercury
A new and detailed picture of Mercury is emerging thanks to NASA’s MESSENGER mission that spent four years in orbit about the Sun’s innermost planet. Comprehensively illustrated by close-up images and other data, the author describes Mercury’s landscapes from a...

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Parution : 2014-11-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Spectroscopic Instrumentation
In order to analyze the light of cosmic objects, particularly at extremely great distances, spectroscopy is the workhorse of astronomy.In the era of very large telescopes, long-term investigations are mainly performed with small professional instruments. Today they can...

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Parution : 2014-11-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Galactic and Intergalactic Magnetic Fields
This course-tested textbook conveys the fundamentals of magnetic fields and relativistic plasma in diffuse cosmic media, with a primary focus on phenomena that have been observed at different wavelengths. Theoretical concepts are addressed wherever necessary, with...

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Télécharger le livre :  Solar Sails
The reality of sunlight-based sailing in space began in May 2010, and solar sail technology and science have continued to evolve rapidly through new space missions. Using the power of the Sun's light for regular travel propulsion will be the next major leap forward in...

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Télécharger le livre :  Bigelow Aerospace
Here for the first time you can read:how a space technology start-up is pioneering work on expandable space station moduleshow Robert Bigelow licensed the TransHab idea from NASA, and how his company developed the technology for more than a decadehow, very soon, a...

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Parution : 2014-09-25
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Télécharger le livre :  The Iranian Space Endeavor
Provides a detailed look at the events and policies surrounding the Iranian space endeavor.For those who see the trend of progress and movement of the Iranian space endeavor from the outside, it can be difficult to understand what goes on behind the scenes. However, for...

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Parution : 2014-07-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Religions and Extraterrestrial Life
In the twenty-first century, the debate about life on other worlds is quickly changing from the realm of speculation to the domain of hard science. Within a few years, as a consequence of the rapid discovery by astronomers of planets around other stars, astronomers very...

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Parution : 2014-07-16
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Télécharger le livre :  The International Handbook of Space Technology
This comprehensive handbook provides an overview of space technology and a holistic understanding of the system-of-systems that is a modern spacecraft.With a foreword by Elon Musk, CEO and CTO of SpaceX, and contributions from globally leading agency experts from NASA,...

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Parution : 2014-07-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Tourists in Space
Forget Hawaii or the Mediterranean. Soon – very soon – you’ll be able to add a much more exotic stamp to your passport: space. How will you get there, what will the trip be like and how much training will you need? All you need to know is right here in this guide....

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Parution : 2014-06-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Dune Worlds
This book describes how sand dunes work, why they are the way they are in different settings, and how they are being studied. Particular attention is paid to their formation and appearance elsewhere in the solar system. New developments in knowledge about dunes make for...

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Parution : 2014-04-22
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Télécharger le livre :  InSAR Imaging of Aleutian Volcanoes
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) is a relatively new remote sensing tool that is capable of measuring ground-surface deformation with centimeter-to-subcentimeter precision at a spatial resolution of tens of meters over an area of hundreds to thousands of...

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Parution : 2014-03-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Liberty Bell 7
NASA’s Mercury astronauts were seven highly skilled professional test pilots. Each of them seemed to possess the strength of character and commitment necessary to overcome apparently insurmountable obstacles as the United States entered into a Cold War space race with...

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Parution : 2014-03-19
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