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  • Innovative Design, Manufacturing and Testing of Small Satellites

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book details key trends involving the recent formation of scores of companies that build and launch small satellites or provide key components for small satellite constellations. The applications and usage are quite diverse and include student experiments, serious scientific experimentation, and totally new types of commercial constellations, particularly in telecommunications and remote ... Leer más

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  • Mission to Mars

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    Can astronauts reach Mars by 2035? Absolutely, says Buzz Aldrin, one of the first men to walk on the moon. Celebrated astronaut, brilliant engineer, bestselling author, Aldrin believes it is not only possibly but vital to America's future to keep pushing the space frontier outward for the sake of exploration, science, development, commerce, and security. What we need, he argues, is a commitment by ... Leer más

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  • Elon Musk: The Unauthorized Autobiography

    de J.T. Owens X ...
    Elon Musk: The Unauthorized Autobiography is unlike any book ever written about the world's most polarizing visionary. Every single word is drawn directly from Elon Musk's own public statements—meticulously curated and woven together to form an unprecedented first-person narrative told entirely in his voice.This is not a biography written about Musk. This is Musk, unfiltered. His words. His vision ... Leer más

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  • Mars Direct

    Space Exploration, the Red Planet, and the Human Future: A Special from Tarcher/Penguin

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  • Fukushima: the First Five Days

    For five days beginning March 11, 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan experienced the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986. Why was the accident possible? What happened during these crucial five days? Who might have been responsible? A combination of government complacency, industrial arrogance, and an economic conflict of interest are unquestionably involved. ... Leer más

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  • Rocket Billionaires

    Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race

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    This "smart analysis of the New Space sector" goes inside the rapid rise and dramatic rivalry of private space companies SpaceX and Blue Origin ( The New York Times Book Review).For the outsize personalities staking their fortunes on spaceships, the new race to explore space could be a dead end, a lucrative opportunity—or the key to humanity's survival. Rocket Billionaires shines a light on Elon ... Leer más

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  • SpaceX

    Making Commercial Spaceflight a Reality

    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This first account of commercial spaceflight’s most successful venture describes the extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement that have placed SpaceX at the forefront of the launch industry and made it the most likely candidate for transporting humans to Mars. Since its inception in 2002, SpaceX has sought to change the space launch paradigm by developing a family of launch ... Leer más

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  • Making Space Happen

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  • The Value of the Moon

    How to Explore, Live, and Prosper in Space Using the Moon's Resources

    While the Moon was once thought to hold the key to space exploration, in recent decades, the U.S. has largely turned its sights toward Mars and other celestial bodies instead. In The Value of the Moon, lunar scientist Paul Spudis argues that the U.S. can and should return to the moon in order to remain a world leader in space utilization and development and a participant in and beneficiary of a ... Leer más

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