CONTINUED >>> Pet Project?
Tierney wondered whether the Ares I is really the best way to keep the U.S. in the spaceflight business. What if, instead of building a largely new rocket, NASA created a new configuration of proven space shuttle components and placed a crew ... [... more]
Popular Mechanics |
Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight
 Computers in Space: While this book dwells more on computers than astronauts, it contains details from the actual moon landings that I've never seen published elsewhere. Despite contrary opinions by the astonauts, this book has convinced me that a 100% [... more]
$29.95
Amazon.com |
Spaceflight Mechanics 2005: Proceedings Of The Aas/aiaa ...
Spaceflight Mechanics 2005: Proceedings Of The Aas/aiaa Space Flight Mechanics Meeting Held January 23-27, 2005, Cooper Mountain, Colorado (advances I [... more]
$483.00
A1 Books |
Fluid and Electrolyte Regulation in Spaceflight (Science ...
Fluid and Electrolyte Regulation in Spaceflight (Science and Technology Series) [... more]
$89.95
A1 Books |
Ron Miller
Ron Miller is an award-winning author specializing in astronomy. He has written more than thirty books and is an authority on the early history of spaceflight. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Michael Belfiore
Michael Belfiore is one of only a handful of freelance journalists covering commercial spaceflight. He has written for numerous publications, including Popular Science, Wired News, Reuters, and New Scientist. Born in 1969-the year Buzz Aldrin and ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Space Proposals From the Candidates: Geek the Vote '08
a.) Enhance "American leadership in space through investments in exploration, earth sciences, and aeronautics research." b.) Implement "a balanced strategy of robust human spaceflight, expanded robotic spaceflight, and enhanced space [... more]
Popular Mechanics |
Apollo in Perspective: Spaceflight Then and Now
This book explains the basic physics and technology of spaceflight and conveys the huge technological strides that have been made. Topics covered include the laws of motion, rocketry, and how to maneuver in orbit. The book also discusses the designs of [... more]
$49.95
Buy.com |
Creating Space
TASTE OF SPACE: The chamber creates conditions similar to spaceflight. In the vacuum of space, tiny microelectromechanic (MEM) devices are deprived of the thin layer of water vapor that lubricates these tiny moving parts on Earth. This is ... [... more]
Popular Mechanics |
Praxis Manned Spaceflight Log 1961-2006 (Springer Praxis ...
A very great book: I was really impressed by the Praxis Manned Spaceflight Log 1961-2006. Simply the best !!! A book with many details of each manned space mission since the Gagarin's flight. Highly recommended. More than 820 pages rich with any type of [... more]
$39.95
Amazon.com |
Life on Mars, Death of Bees and More: Podcast
To commemorate the upcoming 50th anniversary of manned spaceflight, we're looking at the next 50 years. In the first of a two-part series, New York Times astrobiology reporter Carl Zimmer joins us to predict what we'll find when we finally step ... [... more]
Popular Mechanics |
Spaceflight Life Support and Biospherics (Space ...
A very good introduction and summary to the topic: Spaceflight life support and biospherics is a very well written book that gives engineers, scientists and students all information needed for this topic. It may become, or it is already, the Standard- [... more]
$34.95
Amazon.com |
