Astrophysics category: 1588 books
Mankind Beyond Earth
The History, Science, and Future of Human Space Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Seeking to reenergize Americans' passion for the space program, the value of further exploration of the Moon, and the importance of human beings on the final frontier, Claude A. Piantadosi presents a rich history of American space exploration and its major achievements. He emphasizes the importance...
by Vladimir Rubtsov
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2009
The purpose of the book is a dual one: to detail the nature and results of Tunguska investigations in the former USSR and present-day CIS, and to destroy two long-standing myths still held in the West. The first concerns alleged “final solutions” that have ostensibly been found in Russia or elsewhere....
Dreams of Other Worlds
The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration - Revised and Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Dreams of Other Worlds describes the unmanned space missions that have opened new windows on distant worlds. Spanning four decades of dramatic advances in astronomy and planetary science, this book tells the story of eleven iconic exploratory missions and how they have fundamentally transformed our...
Networks on Networks
The Physics of Geobiology and Geochemistry
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Order from chaos is simultaneously a mantra of physics and a reality in biology. Physicist Norman Packard suggested that life developed and thrives at the edge of chaos. Questions remain, however, as to how much practical knowledge of biology can be traced to existing physical principles, and how...
by Chandre Dharma-wardana
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
This is a highly interdisciplinary book straddling physics and complex systems such as living organisms. The presentation is from the perspective of physics, in a manner accessible to those interested in scientific knowledge integrated within its socio-cultural and philosophical backgrounds. Two key...
by Summary Station
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs by Lisa Randall | Summary and Analysis Book Preview:The interrelationships of every part of existence fascinates so many people, and Lisa Randal has used her skill as a cosmologist and physicist to bring some of those interconnections to life. She’s concerned with the...
Building Habitats on the Moon
Engineering Approaches to Lunar Settlements
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Designing a habitat for the lunar surface? You will need to know more than structural engineering. There are the effects of meteoroids, radiation, and low gravity. Then there are the psychological and psychosocial aspects of living in close quarters, in a dangerous environment, far away from home....
by Stephen Hawking
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
**NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Stephen Hawking has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. Now, for the first time, perhaps the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turns his gaze inward for a revealing look at his own life and intellectual evolution.**
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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...
The Aliens Are Coming!
The Extraordinary Science Behind Our Search for Life in the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Actor and bestselling science writer Ben Miller takes readers to the cutting edge of one of the greatest questions of all: Is there life beyond Earth?
For millennia, we have looked up at the stars and wondered whether we are alone in the universe, but in the last few years—as our probes begin...
Eccentric Orbits
The Iridium Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
“Good corporate drama . . . an enlightening narrative of how new communications infrastructures often come about.” —The Economist, “A Book of the Year 2016”
In the early 1990s, Motorola developed a revolutionary satellite system called Iridium that promised to be its crowning achievement....
by Stephen Sandford, Jay Heinrichs
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
THE ANSWER TO AMERICA’S RENEWAL LIES DIRECTLY ABOVE US.The Gravity Well reveals an astronomical mystery while offering the best promise for our nation’s future. What is the Gravity Well?A deep hole in space,A force that presses us to Earth,An obstacle stretching a million miles up...
Surviving Orbit the DIY Way
Testing the Limits Your Satellite Can and Must Match
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Is your picosatellite ready for launch? Can it withstand rocket thrusts and the vacuum of space? This do-it-yourself guide helps you conduct a series of hands-on tests designed to check your satellite’s readiness. Learn precisely what the craft and its electronic components must endure if they’re...