Astrophysics category: 1588 books
Mars Landing 2012
Inside the NASA Curiosity Mission
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
National Geographic presents the science, the goals, and the anticipation of humankind’s most ambitious planetary expedition ever: the Curiosity mission to Mars. On August 6, 2012 (EST), NASA’s Curiosity spacecraft will complete its 255-day, 354-million-mile journey and plunge down into Gale...
How to Build Your Own Spaceship
The Science of Personal Space Travel
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
Ladies and gentlemen, start your spaceships!
Personal space travel is no longer the stuff of science fiction. The future is here: Civilians are launching into orbit. As early as 2010 paying customers will have the opportunity to experience weightlessness, courtesy of Virgin Galactic's inaugural...
Red Rover
Inside the Story of Robotic Space Exploration, from Genesis to the Mars Rover Curiosity
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
For centuries humankind has fantasized about life on Mars, whether it’s intelligent Martian life invading our planet (immortalized in H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds) or humanity colonizing Mars (the late Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles). The Red Planet’s proximity and likeness to...
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: August 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
The fascinating oral histories of nine famous Apollo lunar program astronauts - converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction - provide new insights into this extraordinary effort, with vital observations about an era of space history that changed the world. The interviews divulge...
Abandoned in Place
Preserving America’s Space History
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Stenciled on many of the deactivated facilities at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the evocative phrase “abandoned in place” indicates the structures that have been deserted. Some structures, too solid for any known method of demolition, stand empty and unused in the wake of the early period...
Roving Mars
Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2005
Steve Squyres is the face and voice of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. Squyres dreamed up the mission in 1987, saw it through from conception in 1995 to a successful landing in 2004, and serves as the principal scientist of its $400 million payload. He has gained a rare inside look at what...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
This official NASA history document - converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction - provides a detailed record of American manned space flights from the inception of Mercury in 1961. The introduction states:
More than 45 years after the Mercury astronauts made their first...
Bold They Rise
The Space Shuttle Early Years, 1972-1986
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
After the Apollo program put twelve men on the moon and safely brought them home, anything seemed possible. In this spirit, the team at NASA set about developing the Space Shuttle, arguably the most complex piece of machinery ever created. The world’s first reusable spacecraft, it launched like...
by Phillip Duke
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
The hows and whys of lighter and heavier than air flight are explained in theory, and described. in practice. Theoretical subjects include the Laws of Motion and Archimedes's and Bernoulli's Principles, as they apply to atmospheric flight. Aircraft described and discussed include everything...
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...
by George Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2006
"A short, excellent account of [Leavitt’s] extraordinary life and achievements." —Simon Singh, New York Times Book Review
George Johnson brings to life Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who found the key to the vastness of the universe—in the form of a “yardstick” suitable for measuring it....
by Stuart Clark
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
A groundbreaking guide to the universe and how our latest deep-space discoveries are forcing us to revisit what we know—and what we don't.
On March 21, 2013, the European Space Agency released a map of the afterglow of the Big Bang. Taking in 440 sextillion kilometres of space and 13.8 billion...
The Constants of Nature
The Numbers That Encode the Deepest Secrets of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2009
Reality as we know it is bound by a set of constants—numbers and values that dictate the strengths of forces like gravity, the speed of light, and the masses of elementary particles. In The Constants of Nature, Cambridge Professor and bestselling author John D.Barrow takes us on an exploration of...