Astrophysics category: 1588 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this official NASA history describes and analyzes the organization of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration during the 1960s and, in so doing, to test certain assumptions about the nature of administrative history....
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
This official NASA internal document - converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction - provides an interesting account of the development of spacewalking concepts for the Skylab space station program. Initially, EVA was required to allow the crew to service the solar physics experiments...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
This NASA document - converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction - provides a survey of the Jake Garn Mission Simulator and Training Facility (Building 5) at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
The Jake Garn Mission Simulator and Training Facility (MSTF) was designed in the early...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2014
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Exploration Systems Mission Directorate and the Bureau of Industry and Security's (BIS) Office of Technology Evaluation (OTE) initiated an industrial base assessment of NASA's human space flight supply chain, specifically suppliers participating...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
From the Foreword: (Author) Lt Col Anthony Mastalir has done policy makers a welcome service by exploring the enigma wrapped in a conundrum which is Chinese space policy, focusing on the Chinese kinetic energy antisatellite (KE-ASAT) test of January 2007. That test ended a de facto moratorium on KE-ASAT...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
The fascinating oral histories of important Apollo lunar program scientists and researchers - 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...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
NASA recognizes the steadily increasing technical capabilities of space-faring commercial entities and nations throughout the world and further recognizes that many are on the verge of landing spacecraft on the surface of the moon. Representatives of commercial entities have contacted NASA seeking...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
This is the fascinating story of a little-known futuristic research project which investigated a concept brought to the Dryden Flight Research Center by Kelly Space. Kelly hoped to demonstrate a new approach to satellite launching by towing a rocket to altitude behind a transport airplane.
The...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this NASA report, released in October 2015, provides the findings of the independent review team of the Orbital Sciences ATK Orb-3 ISS Space Station resupply mission failure, October 28, 2014. At approximately 6:22 p.m....
They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus
An Incurable Dreamer Builds the First Civilian Spaceship
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
This is a classic American tale of dreams and obsession--the suspenseful, brilliantly written account of one eccentric man’s hunger to open space travel to us all: to let us rocket into orbit, return to earth, and soar yet again--thus transforming space travel forever.
They All Laughed at...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Two official NASA documents - converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction - provide detailed information on the experiments and research aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
The first document is titled International Space Station Research Summary Through Expedition...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this NASA document outlines the work of the 2014 International Workshop on Research and Operational Considerations for Artificial Gravity (AG) Countermeasures brought together almost 100 scientists from the United States...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
This document provides a history of the NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program executed by the Commercial Crew & Cargo Program Office from 2006 to 2013 at the Johnson Space Center. It provides unique insight into the amazing commercial effort that has seen two companies,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this book summarizes the scientific, technological and educational accomplishments of research on the space station that have had and will continue to have an impact to life on Earth. All serve as examples of the space...