Astronomy & Space Science
epub |eng | | Author:Jay Gallentine

Copyrighted image removed by Publisher Copyrighted image removed by Publisher Copyrighted image removed by Publisher Burke sipped coffee, pushing through the week's tribulations. He approached things in much the same ...
( Category: Engineering April 3,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Francis French

As he got to know his crewmates better during the demanding training, Walt Cunningham never quite figured out what made Donn Eisele tick. He noticed that Eisele seemed to adopt ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science April 3,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Colin Burgess

Following his decision to join the air force as his career field, and after a two-month graduation leave, White went to Bartow Air Force Base in Florida to begin flight ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science April 3,2018 )
azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-07-06 | Author:Carl Sagan [Sagan, Carl]

CHAPTER 11 A PLANET NAMED GEORGE And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night … WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest, ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science April 3,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-06-06 | Author:TD Barnes [Barnes, TD]

Chapter 8 - Targeting the OX After the unhappy end of U-2 flights over the Soviet Union, US political authorities became understandably cautious about committing themselves to further manned reconnaissance ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science April 3,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-04-25 | Author:Anthony Aveni [Aveni, Anthony]

First U.S. eclipse map, showing the path of the February 1831 eclipse. (The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1831 [Boston: Gray & Bowen], p. 13, ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 3,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2010-05-14 | Author:Charles Bourland;Gregory Vogt

Main Dishes 109 Meet the Astronaut: Gerald Carr, Skylab 4 (84 days) Colonel Gerald Carr received a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1954, ...
( Category: Physics April 3,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-06-11 | Author:David Gledhill [Gledhill , David]

Tornado F3 radar display in single target track mode firing against a target flying at Mach 2. The Skyflash leaves the aircraft. The Frazer Nash missile launcher under the Tornado ...
( Category: Military April 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Randall, Lisa [Randall, Lisa]

CHAPTER TWELVE MEASUREMENT AND UNCERTAINTY Familiarity and comfort with statistics and probability help when evaluating scientific measurements, not to mention many of the difficult issues of today’s complex world. I ...
( Category: Physics April 3,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-06-30 | Author:Andreas Losch [Losch, Andreas]

Isn't It Just Science Fiction? A particular criticism, somewhat connected with the issue of geocentrism, that is often (over)heard is that the ideas and concepts of astrobiology are either entirely ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science April 3,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-03-28 | Author:Wallace H. Tucker [Tucker, Wallace H.]

14 If a car was as fuel-efficient as these black holes, it could theoretically travel over a billion miles on a gallon of gas. Christopher Reynolds, NASA press release, 2006 ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science April 3,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-07-13 | Author:Hugh Harkins [Harkins, Hugh]

The basic flight profile of the satellite fighter would involve the launch atop a Cyclone-2 launch vehicle, commencing the active phase of the operation, which would have followed the pre-launch ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science April 3,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-03-07 | Author:John Dvorak [Dvorak, John]

Today it is easy to trivialize what De La Rue and Secchi had done. But one must remember how little was known about the physical character of the Sun and ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science April 3,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-05-16 | Author:Jorge Cham & Daniel Whiteson [Cham, Jorge]

Right now we have no idea why the speed limit is what it is. But we can speculate about different possibilities. It could be that this is the only possible ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games April 3,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:DK

"The comets have remained what they were from the beginning—astronomical heaps of gravel without any cohesion." Kenneth Edgeworth See also: The Oort cloud • Exploring beyond Neptune IN CONTEXT key ...
( Category: Science, Nature & How It Works April 2,2018 )