Astrophysics category: 1588 books

On October 4, 1957, history was made. The Soviet Union Lunched Sputnik. Sputnik’s impact on the world and the USA was colossal, impressive, and unprecedented. And the space programs and arms races between the Soviet Union and the United States began. Find in this story how space programs...

This fascinating and informative series of Soviet space program history reports begins with this reproduction of two truly historic documents: Review of the Soviet Space Program 1967 and Soviet Space Programs, 1966-70. The history of the Russian spaceflight effort is chronicled in these superb Congressional...

Historical surveys of the concept of space consider Judeo-Christian ideas, Newtonian absolute space, perceptions from 18th century to the present, and more. This scholarly work features numerous original quotations and bibliographical references, including original-language excerpts and translations...

This study explains why the Big Bang was intelligently controlled and the most exquisitely designed phenomena science has ever discovered. How the latest scientific discoveries can shed light on some theological questions, such as: how can God hear an answer the prayers of billions of people all at...

Aliens is a highly debated topic, sometimes in favour others against it. Once again, we introduce more than fifty bioenergemal communications (BELCs) that for over the years we have presumably had, amongst others, with the bioenergeme of Khriannia, an extraterrestrial woman, occasionally with some...

«Se volete comprendere le grandi idee che stanno modellando la cosmologia contemporanea, dovete leggere questo libro». Adam G. Riess, premio Nobel per la Fisica, 2011 Per millenni l’universo è stato sinonimo della volta stellata che ci sovrasta e noi ne eravamo il centro. Con la modernità...

This case study on the International Space Station considers what many believe to have been the ultimate international engineering project in history. The initial plans involved the direct participation of 16 nations, 88 launches and over 160 spacewalks—more space activities than NASA had accomplished...

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this collection reproduces two major Federal documents about space weather: the National Space Weather Action Plan, and the National Space Weather Strategy, issued in October 2015.Space-weather events are naturally...

Two major documents reveal the risks and safety issues about the International Space Station (ISS). Experts from the Johnson Space Center, in a document entitled Long-Term ISS Risk Reduction Activities (2011) note the following: Many not close to the ISS Program might be alarmed to learn that...

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Released in April 2018, this report by the NASA Office of Inspector General, Office of Audits, examines the latest contracts for commercial resupply services to the International Space Station. Since...

Amid a century devastated by war, space exploration was perhaps mankind's greatest achievement of the twentieth century. Yet remarkably, in a world where most technology progresses constantly, space exploration appears to have gone backwards. Man has not returned to the moon since 1972; the space...

The book gathers articles that were exposed during the seventh edition of the Workshop “Data Analysis in Astronomy”. It illustrates a current trend to search for common expressions or models transcending usual disciplines, possibly associated with some lack in the Mathematics required to model...

This thesis focuses on the construction and application of an electron radiation belt kinetic model including various adiabatic and non-adiabatic processes. The terrestrial radiation belt was discovered over 50 years ago and has received a resurgence of interest in recent years. The main drivers of...

Young addresses the impressive expansion across existing and developing commercial space business markets, with multiple private companies competing in the payload launch services sector. The author pinpoints the new markets, technologies, and players in the industry, as well as highlighting...