Aeronautics category: 1620 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Through essays on topics including survival in extreme environments and the multicultural dimensions of exploration, readers will gain an understanding of the psychological challenges that have faced the space program since its earliest days. An engaging read for those interested in space, history,...
Wings In Orbit: Scientific and Engineering Legacies of the Space Shuttle 1971-2010
Scientific and Engineering Legacies of the Space Shuttle 1971-2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Wings in Orbit is an authoritative documentation of the many accomplishments of the NASA Space Shuttle Program. Starting with a foreword written by astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen, this compelling book provides accurate, authentic and easily understood accounts from NASA’s best...
X-15 Diary
The Story of America's First Space Ship
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The riveting true story of the world’s fastest plane and the first manned flights into outer space.
First tested in 1959, the X-15 rocket plane was at the forefront of the space race. Developed by the US Air Force and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in collaboration...
101 Facts… Solar System
101 Space Facts for Kids, #4
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
IP Factly presents... "101 Facts… Solar System!"Solar System Kids Book - Amazing facts, stunning photos plus videos telling the story of the solar system for kids.
Space facts for kidsA fun and fascinating way for young readers to discover more about the planets, dwarf planets and other...
by Sarah Fabiny, Who HQ
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Find out all about NASA in this out-of-this-world addition to the What Was? series.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA, began in 1958. With its creation, the United States hoped to ensure it won the space race against the Soviet Union. Author Sarah Fabiny...
Breaking the Chains of Gravity
The Story of Spaceflight before NASA
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
NASA's history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the Moon in 1969. But America's space agency wasn't created in a vacuum. It was assembled from pre-existing parts, drawing together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer.
In...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
This Air Force book presents the many interesting stories of a McDonnell Aircraft engineer on everything from aeronautical engineering to manned spacecraft. From the Foreword: Rarely is a reader exposed to such an extraordinary, multi-faceted presentation of aerospace technology as Bob Brulle narrates...
"Cap" Cornish, Indiana Pilot
Navigating the Century of Flight
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Clarence "Cap" Cornish was an Indiana pilot whose life spanned all but five years of the Century of Flight. Born in Canada in 1898, Cornish grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He began flying at the age of nineteen, piloting a "Jenny" aircraft during World War I, and continued to fly...
Building Moonships
The Grumman Lunar Module
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2004
In 1961, after the United States had acquired a total of fifteen minutes of spaceflight experience, President John F. Kennedy announced his plans for landing a man on the moon by 1970. The space race had begun. In 1962, after a strenuous competition, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
The Birth of NASA
The Work of the Space Task Group, America's First True Space Pioneers
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
This is the story of the work of the original NASA space pioneers; men and women who were suddenly organized in 1958 from the then National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) into the Space Task Group. A relatively small group, they developed the initial mission concept plans and procedures...
Facing the Heat Barrier
A History of Hypersonics
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
This volume from The NASA History Series presents an overview of the science of hypersonics, the study of flight at speeds at which the physics of flows is dominated by aerodynamic heating. The survey begins during the years immediately following World War II, with the first steps in hypersonic research:...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Milt Thompson's account of lessons to be learned involves aspects of the history of flight research at what was then called the Flight Research Center and its predecessor organizations— redesignated in 1976 the Hugh L. Dryden Flight Research Center. Many fascinating topics are covered: lifting bodies,...
by David W. Anderson, Scott Eberhardt
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Discover how planes get--and stay--airborne
Now you can truly master an understanding of the phenomenon of flight. This practical guide is the most intuitive introduction to basic flight mechanics available. Understanding Flight, Second Edition, explains the principles of aeronautics in terms,...
by Wayne Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
The history of the helicopter may be traced back to the Chinese flying top (c. 400 B.C.) and to the work of Leonardo da Vinci, who sketched designs for a vertical flight machine utilizing a screw-type propeller. In the late nineteenth century, Thomas Edison experimented with helicopter models, realizing...