Astronautics Space Science category: 571 books

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this is an informative history of the USAF Dyna-Soar manned spaceplane program. Chapter 1 - Developing Technology To Meet An Expected Future * Chapter 2 - Pushing The State-Of-The-Art * Chapter 3 - Continuing To...

These official final program mission reports issued by the NASA Johnson Space Center cover missions in 1989: STS-29, STS-30, STS-28, STS-34, and STS-33. In these thorough reports, with information and specifics not available on NASA website mission descriptions, each orbiter system is reviewed in...

This SpringerBrief provides a general overview of the role of satellite applications for disaster mitigation, warning, planning, recovery and response. It covers both the overall role and perspective of the emergency management community as well as the various space applications that support their...

Veteran space journalist digs into the science and technology--past, present, and future--central to our explorations of Earth's only satellite, the space destination most hotly pursued today. In these rich pages, veteran science journalist Leonard David explores the moon in all its facets,...

This official NASA internal document - converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction - is a comprehensive evaluation of the operational and engineering aspects of the first manned visit to the Skylab space station and includes the performance of experiment hardware that is under Johnson...

These official final program mission reports issued by the NASA Johnson Space Center cover missions in 1989: STS-29, STS-30, STS-28, STS-34, and STS-33. In these thorough reports, with information and specifics not available on NASA website mission descriptions, each orbiter system is reviewed in...

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Have you ever dreamed of going to outer space? When Sally Ride was a little girl, she watched on TV as astronaut John Glenn launched into space. Twenty years later, she became the...

Let’s go to Jupiter today! This educational book is filled with wonderful facts about the largest planet in the Solar System. Your child will love the colors and the selection of texts laid out in this book. Read about random facts to help widen your knowledge on the planet. Feel like you're really...

This official NASA document - converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction - is a reproduction of the actual Mir Space Station astronaut training manual used during the Mir-Shuttle program. Contents include: HISTORY OF MIR COMPLEX * PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES * INTRODUCTION * SALYUT...

Have you ever wondered what it's really like for an astronaut in outer space? From the exciting moments to the day-to-day details, from the serious to the humorous, you'll find answers to every question you've ever had about living in space! What does it feel like to be weightless? Would a...

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this is a wonderful account of flight research at the Dryden Flight Research Center, with a history of the center from its origins through the early research leading to America's Space Shuttle.Prologue: A Most exotic...

This comprehensive handbook provides an overview of space technology and a holistic understanding of the system-of-systems that is a modern spacecraft. With a foreword by Elon Musk, CEO and CTO of SpaceX, and contributions from globally leading agency experts from NASA, ESA, JAXA, and CNES,...

This is one of a series of systems engineering case studies prepared by the Air Force Center for Systems Engineering. This case study analyzes the Hubble Space Telescope program. The incredible story of the HST program from the early dreams and visions of a space-based telescope in 1946, through...

Blast off into a galaxy full of fun with this fact-tastic nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read, part of a series about the history of fun stuff! Did you know that ancient people all over the world looked at the stars and saw constellations? Or that a science fiction author named Jules Verne predicted...