epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-26 | Author:Al Worden [Worden, Al]

CHAPTER 8 LAUNCH You never forget launch day. Finally, your mission is about to begin. You are in a special zone, like an athlete walking out for an Olympic event. ...

epub |eng | 2012-02-27 | Author:Neil Degrasse Tyson & Avis Lang [Tyson, Neil Degrasse & Lang, Avis]

• • • 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 ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Mary Roach

MISSION CONTROL: Gemini VII, this is Surgeon. Frank, do you have any lotion remaining? BORMAN: Any lotion? MISSION CONTROL: Roger. BORMAN: We have some but we sure don’t need it, ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ben Evans

Seventh time lucky 239 pressure oxidiser turbopump discharge ducts to determine that they were of the correct thickness. Also during the delay period, one of Columbia's five flight deck computers ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Paul Gilster

mobi |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:William Burrows

* By way of reemphasizing that no tricks were being played, Korolyov not only had Nikolayev and Popovich communicate over open radio channels, describing each other’s spacecraft, but they made ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-08-10 | Author:Jay Barbree

mobi, epub, pdf | | 2009-12-26 | Author:Tom Wolfe

Well, there were some big grins, all right, up in the high desert, at Edwards, among the brethren. Here were some men who had something to smile about. Now the ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-02-02 | Author:Matthew Brzezinski

America had been bested on the international stage, and editors across the land now salivated at the prospect of finding someone to blame for the sluggishness and complacency of the ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Peter J. Westwick

Reengineering JPL • 233 Figure 15.1. The fi ve pillars of quality in Total Quality Management. Source: JPL 165, 2/18. tems engineering that had supported JPL for thirty years. Project ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-06-25 | Author:Carl Sagan

PLANETARY SCIENCE fosters a broad interdisciplinary point of view that proves enormously helpful in discovering and attempting to defuse these looming environmental catastrophes. When you cut your teeth on other ...

mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2011-07-01 | Author:Ben Mezrich

* * * The long hours are still flowering. I watch them with my eyes closed and remember how I once played a part in a fairy tale. How the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-26 | Author:Jamie Doran

Early on the morning of April 14 Gagarin left for Moscow. He climbed the gangway of a large Ilyushin-18 airliner capable of long-distance flights. In a few weeks’ time he ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Richard Holmes [Richard Holmes]

The picture seems to carry an allegorical message, skilfully developed from that of the Times editorial: the Scientist presses the extreme limits of Nature at his peril. The well-ordered world ...

epub |eng | | Author:Rod Pyle

Across the planet, Spirit continued its mission, steady and sure. If rovers had emotions, surely this machine—only the second mission to land on Mars and first of its generation—would resent ...