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Building Moonships by Joshua Stoff
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 )
Beyond Earth by Charles Wohlforth
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 )
A Space Traveler's Guide to the Solar System by Mark Thompson
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 )
How to Make a Spaceship by Julian Guthrie
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 )
Asteroid Mining 101: Wealth for the New Space Economy by John Lewis
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 )
Red Rover: Inside the Story of Robotic Space Exploration, From Genesis to the Mars Rover Curiosity by Roger Wiens
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-12 | Author:Roger Wiens

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 ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight May 12,2016 )
The Race: The Complete True Story of How America Beat Russia to the Moon by James Schefter
epub, pdf |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:James Schefter [Schefter, James]

8 Two weeks after his momentous declaration, Jack Kennedy met Nikita Khrushchev for face-to-face talks in Vienna. Over lunch, Kennedy suggested that the two countries cooperate on a lunar program. ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight May 12,2016 )
How Apollo Flew to the Moon by W. David Woods
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:W. David Woods

SPS: the engine that just had to work The SPS engine was mounted at the rear of the central tunnel, below the helium tanks. This was the one major engine ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight May 12,2016 )
Escaping the Bonds of Earth: The Fifties and the Sixties by Ben Evans
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Ben Evans

One of Johnson's earliest official acts was the establishment of the so-called `Warren Commission' to investigate the president's death. Chaired by Chief Justice Earl Warren, the very man who had ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight May 12,2016 )
To Orbit and Back Again: How the Space Shuttle Flew in Space by Davide Sivolella
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-02 | Author:Davide Sivolella

Cutting methodology for HRSI tiles. Tile installation configuration. This process was the methodology used by Lockheed in manufacturing all the thousands of tiles installed on each Orbiter for delivery to ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science May 6,2016 )
We Could Not Fail by Richard Paul
epub |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Richard Paul [Paul, Richard]

Clyde Foster, seen here in front of the Marshall Space Flight Center in 1965, got more black workers jobs, advanced the education of more black engineering students, and cleared the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight May 5,2016 )
Leaving Orbit by Margaret Lazarus Dean
epub |eng | 2015-04-29 | Author:Margaret Lazarus Dean

When we finish eating and go outside, the cloud cover has cleared and the sun seems too bright, as if someone has turned it up beyond the point that cloudlessness ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight April 30,2016 )
Rise of the Rocket Girls by Nathalia Holt
epub |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:Nathalia Holt

Punch cards used by the women to write programs Most of the computers had never used a typewriter—only secretaries at JPL used those—and didn’t even know how to type. But ...
( Category: Scientists April 23,2016 )
Decoding the Message of the Pulsars by Paul A. LaViolette Ph.D
epub |eng | 2011-10-03 | Author:Paul A. LaViolette, Ph.D.

SEVEN NATURAL OR ARTIFICIAL Lighthouse Trouble Supernova Origin Problem. Although astronomers continue to use the neutron star lighthouse model to interpret the pulsar phenomenon, they readily admit there are many ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science April 8,2016 )
The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed by John McPhee
epub |eng | 2011-06-21 | Author:John McPhee

THE FRONT PAGE of the New York Herald of September 8, 1863, was entirely given over to classified ads and a large map of Chattanooga depicting the military situation there. ...
( Category: Aeronautics & Astronautics March 14,2016 )

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