mobi, epub |eng | 1988-01-02 | Author:Timothy Ferris

The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram for any given population of stars—a star cluster, say—therefore provides evidence of its age. When the cluster is in its infancy, virtually all its stars lie on ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-10 | Author:Leslie Kean

The Cosford Incident On March 30 and 31, 1993, there was a series of UFO sightings in the UK involving over a hundred witnesses, many of them police officers and ...

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, epub |eng | 1982-08-15 | Author:James A. Michener

“Pope, avoid this temptation. It looks enticing-to be an astronaut and to have your picture in the newsreels. And we can be proud of our Navy men. They’ve done a ...

mobi |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:1

Chapter Seven The light surrounding them became an opaque wall that shut out the curious priesthood and left them in a column of privacy that relieved the tiny bit of ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-07 | Author:Mike Brown

Chapter Eight LILAH, AN INTERMISSION On Thursday, July 7, 2005, I decided to do something that I almost never did—stay home to get work done without the distractions 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, epub |eng | 1999-07-06 | Author:Dava Sobel

Grand Duke Ferdinando II Ferdinando ceded broad discretionary powers to his public health officers—a group of noblemen who answered directly and only to him. Their ordinances, aimed with good intentions ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Herbert

Part Two Twelve How do you feel now? Is your mind still closed to my story, or are you wondering? Let me go on; there’s a few hours before dawn. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Herbert

PART THREE Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, With bitter tidings laden, Shall summon to unwelcome bed A melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear. Who fret to ...

epub |eng | 2011-12-10 | Author:Patrick Moore

We watched with glazed and goggling eyes As multitudes of desert flies Surrounded us and nibbled at our coats. We dodged the crowd of market boys Who tried to sell ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-01-20 | Author:Jeffrey Bennett [Bennett, Jeffrey]

EINSTEIN’S HAPPIEST THOUGHT In 1907, just two years after finishing special relativity, Einstein hit upon what he later called “the happiest thought of my life.” To understand his happy thought, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2000-02-29 | Author:Brian Greene

The Elegant Universe Chapter 9 The Smoking Gun: Experimental Signatures N othing would please string theorists more than to proudly present the world with a list of detailed, experimentally testable ...