epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Petranek

7 Making Mars in Earth’s Image We humans have proven ourselves to be incredibly adaptable to unusual living conditions, easily accommodating environments as hostile as Amazonian rain forests and the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-05 | Author:Dan Parry [Dan Parry]

Chapter 10 PUSHED TO THE LIMIT The final say on whether Apollo 11 would launch on schedule was down to the crew as much as anyone, and determined to make ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-04-12 | Author:Chris Impey [Impey, Chris]

10 Remote Sensing _______________________ Extending Our Senses What if we could have the experience of space travel without actually making the journey? The cost and difficulty of protecting fragile humans ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-21 | Author:Craig Nelson [Nelson, Craig]

Bill Anders remembered that riding on Apollo 8 “was like being on the inside of a submarine.” Jim Lovell said of being one of the first three humans to see ...

epub |eng | 2015-02-09 | Author:Jim Bell

ROLLING WITH THE PUNCHES When William and Caroline Herschel discovered Oberon and Titania, they and others couldn’t help but notice that those moons (and others found later) are spinning around ...

epub |eng | 2010-07-21 | Author:Richard C. Hoagland

The Birth of NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), was created by an act of Congress98 on July 29, 1958. Its ostensible purpose was to act as a ...

mobi |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:Robert Zubrin & Richard Wagner

* * * 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 |eng | 2011-05-30 | Author:Richard Branson

Freddie went into the scrap business full-time, turning old warplanes into aluminum ingots. He claimed he was more than happy servicing and recycling planes, and that his flying days were ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-10-21 | Author:Glynn S. Lunney [Lunney, Glynn S.]

Surveyor with LM in Background In reaction to the lightning strike after the mission, the mission rules for the launch director decision at the launch site were significantly strengthened. Don ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Kelly, Thomas J. [Kelly, Thomas J.]

Stress Corrosion The Super Weight Improvement Program resulted in the widespread use of chemical milling for structural parts on LM that rendered aluminum alloy parts more susceptible to stress corrosion, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...