Astronautics & Space Flight
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Parcak

Upmarket Afterlife Property Like other Middle Kingdom tombs that aimed high—even higher than the nomarchs of the Old Kingdom—this tomb had, when new, sought to imitate a pyramid’s front driveway. ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight September 6,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Warmflash

1945 OPERATION OVERCAST In 1945, the US began Operation Overcast to locate German technical specialists in various fields. Authorized by President Harry Truman (1884–1972) and later renamed Operation Paperclip, the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight September 5,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Harry Hurt

10 SNOOPY AND THE SURVEYOR Man’s Second Moon Landing Apollo 12: November 18–20, 1969 Nobody ever remembers what the second person to do something does. APOLLO 12 COMMANDER CHARLES “PETE” ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight August 4,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alice Gorman

CHAPTER 5 SHADOWS ON THE MOON The grey unknown was acceptable for so long but then we got close and color leaked in Christine Rueter, ‘Color Leaked In’ Next time ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight August 4,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-06-24 | Author:Fraser MacDonald

APART FROM BEING the nucleus of a rapidly expanding international spy investigation, everything about Frank’s life was going well. Frank and Marjorie got engaged in November and married on 12 ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight July 6,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chris Jones [Chris Jones]

6 THE BEST PARTS OF LONELY Since forever, it's always been easier to be the one who's gone away. There aren't the same feelings of having been abandoned, and there ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight July 2,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ashish Tewari

(4.2) where is a linear differential operator , and is a functional operator. The solution for the motion coordinates, , requires a simultaneous solution to structural dynamics equations, Eq. (4.1), ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight June 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-10 | Author:Fishman, Charles

* * * Among the first people to start thinking about how to rendezvous in space was a group at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Langley is where ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight June 22,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-16 | Author:Chris Impey

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 ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight June 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:James Donovan

The grief and shock felt throughout NASA—particularly in Houston, where so many knew the three men personally—were palpable. For their part, the astronauts knew they had to put the tragedy ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight June 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-09 | Author:Chris Impey

10 Chandra EXPLORING THE VIOLENT COSMOS WHEN WE DREAM OF OTHER WORLDS, our dreams may be vivid and real and colorful, but they’re subject to the limitations of our senses. ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight June 10,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rod Pyle

Fig. 22.3. From left to right, the author, Ed Stone, and John Casani in 2018. Image from AIAA. Flying past Saturn was a true showstopper—as the most visually spectacular planet ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight May 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-06 | Author:Leonard David

* * * WITHOUT QUESTION, NASA’s long-lived Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been a game changer in the ability to inspect the Moon. On the job since entering orbit around ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight May 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-14 | Author:Launius, Roger D.

Earthrise, one of the most powerful and iconic images from the Apollo program, was taken by astronaut Bill Anders in December 1968 during the Apollo 8 mission. This view of ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight May 14,2019 )
epub |eng | | 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 ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight April 27,2019 )