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Norris, Pat |
Spies in the Sky |
I06566 |
2008 |
eBook |
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Harland, David M |
The First Men on the Moon |
I06562 |
2007 |
eBook |
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Harland, David M |
Space Systems Failures |
I06561 |
2005 |
eBook |
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Seedhouse, Erik |
SpaceX |
I06549 |
2013 |
eBook |
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McNamara, Geoff |
Clocks in the Sky |
I06479 |
2008 |
eBook |
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Thomas, Kenneth S |
US Spacesuits |
I06478 |
2006 |
eBook |
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Harland, David M |
The Story of Space Station Mir |
I06477 |
2005 |
eBook |
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Evans, Ben |
Space Shuttle Columbia |
I06476 |
2005 |
eBook |
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David, Shayler |
NASA's Scientist-Astronauts |
I06474 |
2007 |
eBook |
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Harland, David M |
Water and the Search for Life on Mars |
I06470 |
2005 |
eBook |
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| Title | Spies in the Sky : Surveillance Satellites in War and Peace |
| Author(s) | Norris, Pat |
| Publication | New York, NY, 1. Imprint: Praxis
2. Springer New York, 2008. |
| Description | XVII, 220 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | In Spies in the Sky Patrick Norris responds to the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the dawn of the Space Age ??? the launch of Sputnik 1 ??? with a review of the most important historical applications of space science for the benefit of the human race during that half century, focusing particularly on the prevention of nuclear war. The author addresses the oft quoted conclusion that the Moon landings and the ???race to the Moon??? between the two superpowers were a side effect of the Cold War, by describing what he believes was the more important event ??? the use of satellites by military to prevent the Cold War becoming a ???hot war???. In developing the story the author casts a spotlight on a little-known aspect of the Space Age, namely the military dimension. Today military satellites represent 25 percent of all satellites in orbit, and they are just as important now in preventing regional nuclear war as they were in preventing global Armageddon more than 30 years ago |
| ISBN,Price | 9780387716732 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Aerospace engineering
2. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
3. ASTRONAUTICS
4. ASTRONOMY
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. ENGINEERING
8. Engineering, general
9. Popular Science in Astronomy
10. SPACE SCIENCES
11. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
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| Title | The First Men on the Moon : The Story of Apollo 11 |
| Author(s) | Harland, David M |
| Publication | New York, NY, 1. Imprint: Praxis
2. Springer New York, 2007. |
| Description | XXII, 378 p. 170 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | On 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first man to orbit the Earth. One month later, President John F. Kennedy challenged the American nation to land a man on the Moon before the decade was out. On 16 July 1969, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin set off in Apollo 11 to attempt this audacious mission, and succeeded magnificently. This book tells the story of Apollo 11, starting with crew selection and training, the choice of the landing site, and the assembly of the space vehicle, then a detailed account of the mission, featuring the lunar landing and moonwalk, and a review of how our knowledge of the Moon's history was revolutionised as a result. The story is enlivened by dialogue between the astronauts in space and the flight controllers in Mission Control |
| ISBN,Price | 9780387495446 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
3. Astronomy???Observations
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. Observations, Astronomical
7. Popular Science in Astronomy
8. SPACE SCIENCES
9. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
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| Title | Space Systems Failures : Disasters and Rescues of Satellites, Rocket and Space Probes |
| Author(s) | Harland, David M;Lorenz, Ralph |
| Publication | New York, NY, 1. Imprint: Praxis
2. Springer New York, 2005. |
| Description | XVIII, 370 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | In the 1960s and 1970s deep space missions were dispatched in pairs in case one was lost in launch or failed during its journey. Following the triumphs of the Viking landings on Mars in 1976 and both Voyagers spacecraft successfully surveying the outer giant planets of the Solar System, it was decided by NASA to cut costs and send out just a single probe. Although Magellan successfully mapped Venus by radar, it suffered from problems during the flight. Then came the loss of Mars Observer, whose engine exploded as it was preparing to enter Mars??? orbit because it was using technology designed for Earth???s satellites and the engine was not suited to spending several months in space. Later came the high-profile losses of Mars Climate Observer and Mars Polar Lander - a consequence of the faster, better, cheaper philosophy introduced by Dan Goldin in 1993. Even the highly successful Galileo mission suffered a major setback when its high-gain antenna (also based on satellite mission suffered a major setback when its high-gain antenna (also based on satellite communication technology) failed to deploy fully, greatly diminishing the craft???s radio transmission capabilities, forcing the ground crew to re-programme the on-board computer to enable it to fulfil its mission and provide stunning images of Jupiter and its moons. In Space Systems Failures, David Harland (here working with co-author Ralph Lorenz) describes the many quite fascinating tales of woe involving failures of rockets, satellites and deep space missions in his inimitable style, providing a unique insight into the trials and tribulations of exploration at the high frontier |
| ISBN,Price | 9780387279619 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
3. Astronomy???Observations
4. Automotive engineering
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. Observations, Astronomical
8. Popular Science in Astronomy
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| Title | SpaceX : Making Commercial Spaceflight a Reality |
| Author(s) | Seedhouse, Erik |
| Publication | New York, NY, 1. Imprint: Praxis
2. Springer New York, 2013. |
| Description | XVI, 206 p. 86 illus., 42 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | 2012 - the year when the first ever privately-developed spacecraft visited the International Space Station. This is the story of how one company is transforming commercial space flight. It describes the extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement that have resulted in the world's first fully reusable launch vehicles and the prospect of human travel to Mars. SpaceX - The First Ten Years: - explores the philosophy behind the success of SpaceX; - explains the practical management that enables SpaceX to keep it simple, reliable, and affordable; - details the developmentof the Falcon 1, Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets and the technology of the Merlin engines; - describes the collaboration with NASA; - introduces current SpaceX projects, including the Grasshopper reusable launch vehicle and the Stratolaunch System. SpaceX - The First Ten Years is a portrait of one of the most spectacular spaceflight triumphs of the 21st century, one that is laying the foundation for humanity to become a spacefaring civilization |
| ISBN,Price | 9781461455141 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Aerospace engineering
2. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
3. ASTRONAUTICS
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. Emerging Markets/Globalization
7. ENTREPRENEURSHIP
8. Globalization
9. Markets
10. Popular Science, general
11. Popular works
12. SPACE SCIENCES
13. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
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| Title | Clocks in the Sky : The Story of Pulsars |
| Author(s) | McNamara, Geoff |
| Publication | New York, NY, 1. Imprint: Praxis
2. Springer New York, 2008. |
| Description | XIV, 190 p. 20 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars, the collapsed cores of once massive stars that ended their lives as supernova explosions. In this book, Geoff McNamara explores the history, subsequent discovery and contemporary research into pulsar astronomy. The story of pulsars is brought right up to date with the announcement in 2006 of a new breed of pulsar, Rotating Radio Transients (RRATs), which emit short bursts of radio signals separated by long pauses. These may outnumber conventional radio pulsars by a ratio of four to one. Geoff McNamara ends by pointing out that, despite the enormous success of pulsar research in the second half of the twentieth century, the real discoveries are yet to be made including, perhaps, the detection of the hypothetical pulsar black hole binary system by the proposed Square Kilometre Array - the largest single radio telescope in the world |
| ISBN,Price | 9780387765624 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
3. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
4. Astronomy???Observations
5. ASTROPHYSICS
6. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
7. EBOOK
8. EBOOK - SPRINGER
9. GRAVITATION
10. Observations, Astronomical
11. Popular Science in Astronomy
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| Title | US Spacesuits |
| Author(s) | Thomas, Kenneth S;McMann, Harold J |
| Publication | New York, NY, 1. Imprint: Praxis
2. Springer New York, 2006. |
| Description | XXX, 398 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Ken Thomas and Joe McMann have produced a magni?cent treatise on spacesuits, spacewalking, life support systems and escape systems. US Spacesuits is historical, massively comprehensive, precise, informative, relevant and readable. As an astronaut I spent 30 years in their world and in their suits. My life was in their hands. I trained on the Apollo and Skylab systems; I assisted in the devel- ment of the Skylab extravehicular activity (EVA) procedures and was a capsule communicator (capcom) on six of the Skylab walks. I helped them in the devel- ment and testing of the shuttle suits, escape systems and all the spacewalking equipment. Together with Don Peterson, I was the ?rst astronaut to test the material in space and I was the lead walker in the initial repair of the Hubble Space Telescope. In this book I am able to relive a lot of my 30 years in that world and gain new insights and perspectives on those experiences. This book is an accurate and detailed history. It is a comprehensive chronology but it is also much more. It not only tells and shows what happened but it deals with how and why things happened. It addresses the hardware and processes that came into fruition and, very importantly, also addresses the options that might have occurred, but did not. It deals with history as an evolutionary process and shows the selection and development system at work |
| ISBN,Price | 9780387739793 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
2. Astronomy???Observations
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. Observations, Astronomical
6. SPACE SCIENCES
7. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
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| Title | The Story of Space Station Mir |
| Author(s) | Harland, David M |
| Publication | New York, NY, 1. Imprint: Praxis
2. Springer New York, 2005. |
| Description | XXV, 424 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This successor edition picks up the story where the first edition left off in 1997, and runs through to Mir???s de-orbiting in March 2001, providing the definitive account of the Mir Space Station. The book reviews the origins of the Soviet space station programme, in particular the highly successful Salyuts 6 and 7, describes Mir???s structure, environment, power supply and maneuvering systems, and provides a comprehensive account of how it was assembled and how it operated in orbit. Tells how the Soviet Union's experience with a succession of Salyut space stations led to the development of Mir, which was assembled in space, piece by piece, between 1982 and 1996 and became an international research laboratory whose technology went on to form the 'core modules' of the International Space Station |
| ISBN,Price | 9780387739779 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Aerospace engineering
2. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
3. ASTRONAUTICS
4. ASTRONOMY
5. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
6. Astronomy???Observations
7. EBOOK
8. EBOOK - SPRINGER
9. Observations, Astronomical
10. Popular Science in Astronomy
11. SPACE SCIENCES
12. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
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| Title | Space Shuttle Columbia : Her Missions and Crews |
| Author(s) | Evans, Ben |
| Publication | New York, NY, 1. Imprint: Praxis
2. Springer New York, 2005. |
| Description | XX, 486 p. 280 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | On February 1st 2003, one of the worst and most public disasters ever witnessed in the human space programme unfolded with horrifying suddenness in the skies above north central Texas. The Space Shuttle Columbia ??? the world???s first truly reusable manned spacecraft ??? was lost during her return to Earth, along with a crew of seven. It was an event that, after the loss of Space Shuttle Challenger during a launch 17 years before, the world had hoped it would never see again. This book details each of Columbia???s 28 missions in turn, as told by scientists and researchers who developed and supported her many payloads, by the engineers who worked on her and by the astronauts who flew her. In doing so, it is intended to provide a fitting tribute to this most remarkable flying machine and those who perished on her last mission |
| ISBN,Price | 9780387739724 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
3. Astronomy???Observations
4. Automotive engineering
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. Observations, Astronomical
8. Popular Science in Astronomy
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| Title | NASA's Scientist-Astronauts |
| Author(s) | David, Shayler;Burgess, Colin |
| Publication | New York, NY, 1. Imprint: Praxis
2. Springer New York, 2007. |
| Description | XLV, 543 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Mounting pressure in the early 1960s from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to study ways of expanding the role of astronauts to conduct science on future space missions led to NASA???s conclusion that flying scientifically trained crewmembers would generate greater returns from each mission. NASA and industry studies continued investigating possibilities that could lead to the eventual creation of the first space stations using surplus Apollo hardware, through the Apollo Applications Programme (AAP). There was also a growing interest within the military to create their own manned space station programme, conducting on-orbit experiments and research with strategic advantages for national security. In October 1964 the Soviets launched Voskhod 1 whose 3-man crew were identified as the first ???scientific passengers??? in space. A few days later NASA and the NAS had completed joint studies into the possibility of using scientists in the manned space programme, and invited scientists to apply for astronaut training. In selecting the first group of scientist-astronauts, NASA had one firm requirement; any person accepted into the programme would have to qualify as a military jet pilot. While the second group of scientists were completing their academic, survival and flight training programme, the remaining members of the first scientist-astronaut group were involved in supporting the developing Apollo Applications programme and the Apollo lunar programme |
| ISBN,Price | 9780387493879 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Aerospace engineering
2. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
3. ASTRONAUTICS
4. ASTRONOMY
5. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
6. Astronomy???Observations
7. EBOOK
8. EBOOK - SPRINGER
9. Observations, Astronomical
10. Popular Science in Astronomy
11. SPACE SCIENCES
12. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
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| Title | Water and the Search for Life on Mars |
| Author(s) | Harland, David M |
| Publication | New York, NY, 1. Imprint: Praxis
2. Springer New York, 2005. |
| Description | XIX, 239 p. 162 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | "Why explore Mars? The simple answer is, we???re going to Mars to search for life. We???re following the water because on Earth where you find liquid water, organic material, and energy, you find life." u find life" Ed Weiler, NASA's Associate Administrator for Space Science Ear where you find liquid water, A century ago, the world was enthralled by Percival Lowell???s vision of a Mars criss-crossed with the canals of a dying civilization distributing water from the polar caps. Later, Mars was thought to have been cold, dead and dry for eons, but striking new evidence suggests the planet was relatively warm and wet in geologically recent times, and that even now there are reserves of water frozen beneath the planet???s surface. Today, robot spacecraft maneuver across the Martian surface while others orbit overhead seeking evidence of water, ice, and landing sites for further exploration. In recent years, the very possibilities for life have dramatically expanded as discoveries by biologists and oceanographers have revealed bizarre life forms where none would have been expected. And as the growing evidence that water flowed on Mars becomes indisputable, more spacecraft are soon to follow. This highly absorbing book relates how NASA and ESA have sought evidence of life on Mars. ???Follow the water??? with noted science writer David Harland as he assembles and weighs the evidence in this timely and compelling book. It contains what you need to know behind today???s, and possibly tomorrow???s, headlines, including details of the Mariner, Viking, and Pathfinder missions and evolving theories of Martian geology and climate. It explains how the search accelerates with the Mars Orbiter and Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Harland sets this within the broader perspective of the likely nature of life on Mars as compared to primitive life on Earth. Finally, he analyzes the implications of there being life on both planets. Join the scientific adventure of a lifetime in this well-researched and thoroughly engrossing true account |
| ISBN,Price | 9780387293721 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTROBIOLOGY
2. ASTRONOMY
3. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
4. Astronomy???Observations
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. Observations, Astronomical
8. PLANETOLOGY
9. Popular Science in Astronomy
10. Popular Science, general
11. Popular works
12. SPACE SCIENCES
13. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
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