epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-02 | Author:Roach, Mary [Roach, Mary]

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, ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-03-25 | Author:Andrew Smith

The museum district comes on like a pleasant afterthought to the city, manicured green and – with no reason for anyone to go there other than culture – quiet. It’s ...

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, pdf |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:Brian Greene

Figure 9.1 A doughnut, or torus, and its multihandled cousins. You might think that the number of holes in the curled-up Planck-sized dimensions—mountaintop physics par excellence—has now kicked an experimentally ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-12-01 | Author:Vladimir Rubtsov & Edward Ashpole

duration of the effect. The TSB had exploded in the lower atmo- sphere, at a height less than 10 km, where high-temperature plasma can exist only several minutes before it ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-01 | Author:Christopher Cokinos

THERE’S ANOTHER REASON FOR the frenzy: A self-described “long-haired rock and roller” with a mailbox shaped like a rocket and a persona as subtle as a fireball. Robert Haag—The Meteorite ...

mobi |eng | 2007-01-16 | Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

AT THE RISK of oversimplifying the life cycle of a high-mass star, it is sufficient to recognize that a star is in the business of making and releasing energy, which ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-12 | Author:Dava Sobel

ANNA enters. ANNA. His clothes are dry. RHETICUS. (to COPERNICUS) Let me help you. ANNA. Everything’s ready. It’s time now. COPERNICUS. Thank you, Anna. You can just leave those here. ...

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 |eng | 2008-12-10 | Author:Don Ledger & Chris Styles

Document Outline Cover Title/Copyright DEDICATION INTRODUCTION NOTE FROM THE AUTHORS 1 THE BEGINNING 2 THE NIGHT OF THE UFOs 3 THE SHAG HARBOR INCIDENT 4 THE UFO CRASH THAT WASN'T ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-05-13 | Author:Stephen Hawking

Tidal Forces Since gravity weakens with distance, the earth pulls on your head with less force than it pulls on your feet, which are a meter or two closer to ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Ray Jayawardhana

All of that changed in 1995, not only for Basri but for the entire feld, as a result of multiple discoveries made almost simultaneously. John Stauffer, then at the Harvard-Smithsonian ...

mobi |eng | 2011-09-19 | Author:Professor Brian Cox; Andrew Cohen

The giant Orion Molecular Cloud is an extensive area of star formation about 1,500 light years from us, centred on the impressive Orion Nebula. This infrared image of it, from ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Martin Bojowald

INFLATION: SPECULATING ON THE EARLY UNIVERSE Negative pressure can suspend the purely attractive nature of gravity in general relativity, so could it perhaps be important to prevent singularities? For this ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1988-11-01 | Author:Nigel Calder

* * * 12: The Galileo Mystery The effects of gravity and acceleration are equivalent. Everything must fall at the same rate. light bends in an accelerating spaceship. An accelerating ...