Astrophysics category: 1588 books
The Doomsday Calculation
How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
From the author of Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?, a fascinating look at how an equation that foretells the future is transforming everything we know about life, business, and the universe.
In the 18th century, the British minister and mathematician Thomas Bayes devised a theorem that...
Mars Direct
Space Exploration, the Red Planet, and the Human Future: A Special from Tarcher/ Penguin
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
“Bob Zubrin really, nearly alone, changed our thinking on this issue.”
—Carl Sagan, The Denver Post
If you ever daydream about space travel and human space flight—or hope to one day rove the Red Planet alongside Curiosity—then MARS DIRECT will teach you how we can get there
The...
Beyond Earth
Our Path to a New Home in the Planets
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
From a leading planetary scientist and an award-winning science writer, a propulsive account of the developments and initiatives that have transformed the dream of space colonization into something that may well be achievable.
We are at the cusp of a golden age in space science, as increasingly...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Winner of the 2007 AIAA History Manuscript Award, Mars Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Space Exploration Initiative investigates one of the most important chapters in the history of the American space program. This is a story of bureaucratic infighting, personality clashes, cultural struggles, and...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2012
This official NASA history document - converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction - contains twenty-one essays by noted experts on the history of the space age, with an eclectic selection of fascinating topics ranging from the effect of spaceflight on American music and culture to...
Into the Extreme
U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics beyond Earth
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
The first book-length, in-depth ethnography of U.S. human spaceflight
What if outer space is not outside the human environment but, rather, defines it? This is the unusual starting point of Valerie Olson’s Into the Extreme, revealing how outer space contributes to making what counts as the...
The Value of the Moon
How to Explore, Live, and Prosper in Space Using the Moon's Resources
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
While the Moon was once thought to hold the key to space exploration, in recent decades, the U.S. has largely turned its sights toward Mars and other celestial bodies instead. In The Value of the Moon, lunar scientist Paul Spudis argues that the U.S. can and should return to the moon in order to remain...
The Survival Imperative
Using Space to Protect Earth
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Using Space to Save Earth
Veteran science journalist William E Burrows offers a bold new mission for the U.S. space program: to protect the Earth from the ever-growing number of perils that threaten our way of life – and even our very survival.
We are living through one of the most...
Space Trek
The Endless Migration
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Mass human migrations into outer space may begin this century! Are Earth’s inhabitants prepared for this next giant leap? Millions of tax dollars are being employed in NASA and Defense Department research facilities to answer this urgent question.
Can humankind migrate to space intelligently, in...
Project Space Station
Plans for a Permanent Manned Space Station
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
It’s happening now—plans are being formulated under the coordination of NASA to launch a permanent, manned space station by the year 1990. Studies surveying user requirements, system attributes, and architectural options have been conducted, and you’re on the top of these far-reaching considerations...
Spectrums
Our Mind-boggling Universe from Infinitesimal to Infinity
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
In Spectrums, David Blatner blends narrative and illustration to illuminate the variety of spectrums that affect our lives every day: numbers, size, light, sound, heat, and time.There is actually surprisingly little in the universe that we can feel, touch, see, hear, or possibly even comprehend. It's...
A History of the Universe
Volume I: Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2006
Take a mind blowing journey beyond the furthest stars, from the Big Bang to the end of time. Witness the evolution of complexity, from organic chemistry to the Dinosaurs. Probe the deepest recesses of the human mind in search consciousness itself. It's all here in this dazzling first volume of Henry Kong's history of the Universe.
The Interstellar Age
Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
The story of the men and women who drove NASA’s Voyager spacecraft mission—the farthest-flung emissaries of planet Earth—told by a scientist who was there from the beginning.
Voyager 1 left our solar system in 2012; its sister craft, Voyager 2, did so in 2018. The fantastic journey began...
A Final Story
Science, Myth, and Beginnings
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Popular science readers embrace epics—the sweeping stories that claim to tell the history of all the universe, from the cosmological to the biological to the social. And the appeal is understandable: in writing these works, authors such as E. O. Wilson or Steven Weinberg deliberately seek to move...