Astronomy & Space Science
epub |eng | 2012-02-27 | Author:Neil Degrasse Tyson [Tyson, Neil Degrasse]

• • • CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT SPACE TRAVEL TROUBLES* Listening to space enthusiasts talk about space travel or watching blockbuster science-fiction movies might make you think that sending people to the ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science October 7,2017 )
epub | | 2009-12-13 | Author:Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de [Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de]

-Pues con ese beneplácito -respondió el cura-, digo que mi escrúpulo es que no me puedo persuadir en ninguna manera a que toda la caterva de caballeros andantes que vuestra ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese October 7,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Henry S. F. Cooper [Cooper, Henry S. F.]

BACK GENERALLY SPEAKING, space-flights are less satisfying to the people who follow them on television than the adventures of earth-bound explorers have usually been to those who have read about ...
( Category: Technology October 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-16 | Author:Lance K. Erickson [Erickson, Lance K.]

( Category: Engineering October 7,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Andrew Chaikin

THE MULTICOLORED BRILLIANCE of another space sunset faded from view as Friendship 7 coasted into its third orbital night. Below, in the light of the full moon, Glenn could see ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science October 7,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-17 | Author:William David Compton [Compton, William David]

** So did the pilot-astronauts, for that matter, but provision was made for them to keep their professional skills (flying) well honed as part of the program. The scientists enjoyed ...
( Category: Engineering October 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-24 | Author:Alexander G. Michaels [Michaels, Alexander G.]

Uranus Neptune Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun and is the third largest planet in our Solar System. Neptune is cold, dark and has whipping supersonic winds. Neptune ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science October 7,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Adam Frank

FIGURE 7.7. From telecommunications to cosmology. Wilson and Penzias stand in front of the horn-shaped receiver (designed for satellite communications) they used to discover microwave “echoes” of the Big Bang. ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science October 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-10-06 | Author:Michael Cabbage

Gehman spent the afternoon at his home, reading contingency plan documents being faxed to him by Gregory’s office. The first thing he decided to do was change the name of ...
( Category: Transportation October 6,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-06 | Author:Miles Harvey [Harvey, Miles]

While I have no idea whether Rolle was right about the Pathfinder, I tend to be wary of writers who depend too heavily on pop psych generalizations about their subjects. ...
( Category: Earth Sciences October 5,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-22 | Author:unknow

Love Potion 3.5 by G.S. Wiley I first got the idea there might be something queer about my new neighbor when he blew up the house during my date with ...
( Category: Activities, Crafts & Games October 5,2017 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:The Planet Mars & Its Inhabitants

[2] The Popular Science Monthly, May, 1920, printed the following—“Sir Oliver Lodge thinks that man is not yet civilized enough to use the energy hidden in ordinary matter. The time ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science October 4,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-10-02 | Author:Gary Bristow

What are the advantages of a hydraulic system over a pneumatic system? The advantages of a hydraulic system over a pneumatic system are as follows: Hydraulic fluid is incompressible, and ...
( Category: Transportation October 2,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-09-29 | Author:Ian Stewart

Observed light curve of Delta Cephei. Cepheids were the long-sought standard candle. Together with the associated yardstick – the formula describing how a star’s apparent brightness varies with distance – ...
( Category: Mathematics September 30,2017 )
epub |eng | 2000-06-01 | Author:Graham Greene

If she could be so cowardly, she thought, with a harmless old man like that, how could she have faced the real decisiveness of an adventure? One was not, at ...
( Category: Contemporary September 30,2017 )