epub |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:Buzz Aldrin [Aldrin, Buzz]

Robotic spacecraft surveys a large asteroid. (Illustration Credit 5.6) Private Sentinel telescope eyes asteroid population. (Illustration Credit 5.7) Along with the need to come to terms with the dangers of ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-12 | Author:Roger Wiens [Wiens, Roger]

chapter fourteen CANCELED THE MSL ROVER PROJECT GOT ALONG FINE FINANCIALLY FOR the first two years. Some areas grew in cost, but the program had more than enough in reserve ...

epub |eng | 1995-12-31 | Author:Robert Zubrin [Zubrin, Robert]

* * * FOCUS SECTION—A CALENDAR FOR THE PLANET MARS Martian colonists will need a calendar that is tied to physical and seasonal conditions on the Red Planet—using Earth dates ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-06-01 | Author:David Hitt & Heather R. Smith

21. Challenger in orbit on STS-7 with the remote manipulator system arm in the shape of the number 7. Courtesy NASA. Unbeknownst to the astronauts, flipping the switches in the ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Neufeld, Michael J. [Neufeld, Michael J.]

HIMMLER TAKES AN INTEREST Besides Speer, one other top Nazi leader began to pay close attention to the Army rocket program: the Reichsführer-SS, Heinrich Himmler. He had been informed of ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2014-07-08 | Author:Jay Barbree

With the moon closer to them than Earth, the astronauts had a crater-potted lunar surface staring them in the face. (NASA) It was a splendid, epochal moment sixty-nine hours and ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-04 | Author:Jay Barbree & Jay Barbree & Deke Slayton [Shepard, Alan]

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Apollo 8: First Around the Moon APOLLO 8 COMMANDER FRANK BORMAN was emerging from a deep sleep, and he resisted the wakefulness that tugged at him. Where am ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-24 | Author:Zubrin, Robert [Zubrin, Robert]

* * * FOCUS SECTION—A CALENDAR FOR THE PLANET MARS Martian colonists will need a calendar that is tied to physical and seasonal conditions on the Red Planet—using Earth dates ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:David McCullough

* * * 1 Reportedly it was Senator Hanna who put Roosevelt on to Cromwell. “You want to be very careful, Theodore,” Hanna is supposed to have advised in fatherly ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Chris Gainor [Gainor, Chris]

Breaking the Sound Barrier Humans, not just animals, were also being subjected to new speeds and acceleration forces in the first decade after the war, sometimes with similarly fatal results. ...

epub |eng | 2013-08-11 | Author:Rathakrishnan, Ethirajan [Rathakrishnan, Ethirajan]

5.18 Point Rectilinear Vortex It is the limiting case of a circular vortex of constant strength γ with radius a tending to zero. We have seen that any point outside ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2000-04-11 | Author:Gene Kranz [Kranz, Gene]

I recognized a few of the Thompson committee members. Frank Borman, the Gemini astronaut, and Max Faget, the director of engineering, were from MSC, and John Williams was from the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-02 | Author:Roach, Mary [Roach, Mary]

MISSION CONTROL: Gemini VII, this is Surgeon. Frank, do you have any lotion remaining? BORMAN: Any lotion? MISSION CONTROL: Roger. BORMAN: We have some but we sure don’t need it, ...

epub |eng | 2012-05-14 | Author:James Fallows [Fallows, James]

* Just to give a flavor, here is a sample ad I saw on a Western aviation site in 2011: Sichuan Airlines—A320 Captains (UPGRADED Package!)—Now the BEST OPPORTUNITY in China! ...

epub |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Eugene Cernan [Cernan, Eugene]

17 The Magnificent Beast DON RRICKLES, WHO MADE his living needling the high and mighty, did me no favor one evening during his freewheeling comedy act in Las Vegas. Alan ...