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Engineering (R0) eBook Series

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  • Space Architecture Education for Engineers and Architects

    Designing and Planning Beyond Earth

    by Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger, Olga Bannova ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book considers two key educational tools for future generations of professionals with a space architecture background in the 21st century: (1) introducing the discipline of space architecture into the space system engineering curricula; and (2) developing space architecture as a distinct, complete training curriculum. Professionals educated this way will help shift focus from solely ... Read more

    $161.09 USD

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  • Space Shuttle 1981-2011

    Stories from 30 Years of Exploration

    by Sally Ride, Greg Freiherr, T.A. Heppenheimer ...
    Space Shuttle 1981-2011 is a lavishly illustrated special edition celebrating the space shuttle era. In thirty years of operation, space shuttles were used in 135 different missions; this volume presents the adventure stories of many of these missions in the astronauts’ own words. Additional contributions by space exploration writers cover the history of the program, technological challenges and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Interstellar Space Journey

    Space Book for Kids

    by Speedy Publishing ...
    The latest movie about traveling between galaxies has sparked many people's interest in its potential. Unfortunately, the film is not really designed for a child's mind. Thus, a book about interstellar space exploration can help them see how wondrous the idea is for mankind. It may help push them in a direction of work or passion that they never considered before. Young minds need inspiration, and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Orbital Mechanics and Astrodynamics

    Techniques and Tools for Space Missions

    by Gerald R. Hintz ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This textbook covers fundamental and advanced topics in orbital mechanics and astrodynamics to expose the student to the basic dynamics of space flight. The engineers and graduate students who read this class-tested text will be able to apply their knowledge to mission design and navigation of space missions. Through highlighting basic, analytic and computer-based methods for designing ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Virgin Galactic

    The First Ten Years

    by Erik Seedhouse ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Thirty years ago when Sir Richard Branson called up Boeing and asked if they had a spare 747, few would have predicted the brash entrepreneur would so radically transform the placid business of air travel. But today, Branson flies airlines on six continents, employs hundreds of jets and, in 2014, was predicting that his spaceship company – Virgin Galactic – would soon open the space frontier to ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Birth of NASA

    The Work of the Space Task Group, America's First True Space Pioneers

    Edited by Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    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 for the U. S. space program. Then they boldly built hardware and facilities to accomplish those ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Human Migration to Space

    Alternative Technological Approaches for Long-Term Adaptation to Extraterrestrial Environments

    by Elizabeth Song Lockard ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Human migration to space will be the most profound catalyst for evolution in the history of humankind, yet this has had little impact on determining our strategies for this next phase of exploration. Habitation in space will require extensive technological interfaces between humans and their alien surroundings and how they are deployed will critically inform the processes of adaptation. As humans ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Introduction to Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

    by Francis Chen ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This complete introduction to plasma physics and controlled fusion by one of the pioneering scientists in this expanding field offers both a simple and intuitive discussion of the basic concepts of this subject and an insight into the challenging problems of current research. In a wholly lucid manner the work covers single-particle motions, fluid equations for plasmas, wave motions, diffusion and ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Deep-Sky Video Astronomy

    by Steve Massey, Steve Quirk ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Deep-Sky Video Astronomy is a concise guide to using modern integrating video cameras for deep-sky viewing and imaging with the kinds of modest telescopes available commercially to amateur astronomers. It includes an introduction and a brief history of the technology, camera types, etc. The authors then examine the pros and cons of this unrefrigerated yet highly efficient technology, which is ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Politics and Perils of Space Exploration

    Who Will Compete, Who Will Dominate?

    by Linda Dawson ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Written by a former Aerodynamics Officer on the space shuttle program, this book provides a complete overview of the “new” U. S. space program, which has changed considerably over the past 50 years.The future of space exploration has become increasingly dependent on other countries and private enterprise.Can private enterprise fill NASA's shoes and provide the same expertise, safety measures and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Catalogue of Meteorites from South America

    by Rogelio Daniel Acevedo, Maximiliano C.L. Rocca, Víctor Manuel García ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The first Catalogue of Meteorites from South America includes new specimens never previously reported, while doubtful cases and pseudometeorites have been deliberately omitted.The falling of these objects is a random event, but the sites where old meteorites are found tend to be focused in certain areas, e.g. in the deflation surfaces in Chile’s Atacama Desert, due to favorable climate conditions ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Saturn from Cassini-Huygens

    Edited by Michele Dougherty, Larry Esposito, Stamatios Krimigis ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book is one of two volumes meant to capture, to the extent practical, the scienti?c legacy of the Cassini-Huygens prime mission, a landmark in the history of planetary exploration. As the most ambitious and interdisciplinary planetary exploration mission ?own to date, it has extended our knowledge of the Saturn system to levels of detail at least an order of magnitude beyond that gained from ... Read more

    $242.09 USD