Astronomy & Space Science
epub |eng | 2016-01-21 | Author:Robert M. Dienesch [Dienesch, Robert M.]

Film Return, Project II-A, and the CIA’s CORONA (November 1957–February 1958) Even as Lockheed was drawing up plans for expediting the WS-117L, forces beyond its control were eclipsing its efforts. ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight November 30,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Joshua Stoff

THE LUNAR MODULE’S COMPUTER. The LM’s display and keyboard (DSKY) enabled the astronauts to insert data into the primary guidance computer and initiate operations. The astronauts communicated with the computer ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight November 23,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Peter Machamer [Peter Machamer]

Salviati is certain, however, that the darker parts are plains and the brighter ones mountain ranges because “the boundary which separates the light and the dark part makes an even ...
( Category: Modern November 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-14 | Author:Charles Wohlforth

FUTURE Technology for continuous acceleration in space developed extraordinarily rapidly, seemingly overnight, like flight after the Wright brothers or the Internet in the 1990s. As in those cases, however, the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight November 18,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Thompson

SIX A Goliath Among Planets LEAVING THE ASTEROID BELT behind marks a new phase in your journey. With the exception of the Sun, all the objects you have visited so ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight November 11,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-08-25 | Author:Julian Guthrie

19 Elon’s Inspiration Peter’s part-time assistant, Angel Panlasigui, opened the door to Peter’s Santa Monica apartment late in the morning and saw what was becoming an increasingly familiar sight in ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight September 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-31 | Author:Ron Woldoff

932. In the system of equations that follows, what is the value of ? 933. The average of g and h is 21, and the average of j and k ...
( Category: Education & Reference September 21,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Louisa Preston

Nature’s Superheroes – the Water Bears The epitome of a polyextremophile and the kings (or queens) of surviving extreme environments, tardigrades are incredibly endearing, eight-legged, all-but-indestructible and mainly microscopic animals. ...
( Category: Biology September 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 1951-01-02 | Author:Erwin Schrodinger [Schrodinger, Erwin]

WHAT IS REAL? 1960 I REASONS FOR ABANDONING THE DUALISM OF THOUGHT AND EXISTENCE, OR MIND AND MATTER Probably for historical reasons of language and education, it comes naturally to ...
( Category: Modern August 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-22 | Author:John Lewis [Lewis, John]

Figure VI.1 This image of the crater Aelia on the proto-planet 4 Vesta was created by assigning ratios of color information from several color filters in visible and near-infrared light ...
( Category: Mining July 24,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-23 | Author:Nancy Ellen Abrams & Joel R. Primack

Chapter 8 Cosmic Society Now Building a cosmic society is not a dream for the distant future, like galactic travel. It’s about today. In fact, the future world is far ...
( Category: Science & Religion July 24,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-09 | Author:David Ewing Duncan [Duncan, David Ewing]

The first use of zero as a fully formed number seems to have appeared around the time of Brahmagupta in the seventh century, when this great Indian mathematician tried, but ...
( Category: Astronomy July 12,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ugo Amaldi

The gauge symmetry is not a symmetry of space but a symmetry of the field which describes matter-particles. In the case of the electronic field, this symmetry property implies the ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science July 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Andrew L. Jenks [Jenks, Andrew L.]

Chapter Seven HOMO SOVIETICUS If Gagarin’s image reflected anxieties about Russia’s place in the modern world, it was also shaped by his own behavior. In his role as the potted, ...
( Category: Russia July 3,2016 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-04-25 | Author:Stephon Alexander

FIGURE 10.1. The regions A and B represent microwave radiation with the same temperature from regions that were not able to interact with each other. The big bang model lacks ...
( Category: Jazz June 26,2016 )