Astrophysics & Space Science
azw3 |eng | 2013-04-12 | Author:Oi, Curran [Oi, Curran]

Neutrinos are hard to "see" because they are very weakly interacting. The only way to observe a neutrino is for it to interact with another particle. They can penetrate almost ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science June 30,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-10 | Author:Fishman, Charles

* * * Among the first people to start thinking about how to rendezvous in space was a group at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Langley is where ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight June 22,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Gordon L. Dillow [Dillow, Gordon L.]

Again, the Catalina Sky Survey isn’t the only Near-Earth Object search and track program out there. As I mentioned earlier, there’s also Pan-STARRS, ATLAS, Spacewatch, NEOWISE, and others that are ...
( Category: Dinosaurs June 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-04 | Author:Robert Stone & Alan Andres

Far more than Hollywood’s portrayal of von Braun in I Aim at the Stars, Lehrer’s brief musical takedown became the lasting artistic interpretation of his life and legacy. What irked ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science June 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-16 | Author:Chris Impey

10 Remote Sensing _______________________ Extending Our Senses What if we could have the experience of space travel without actually making the journey? The cost and difficulty of protecting fragile humans ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight June 17,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2019-02-19 | Author:Bob Berman

It’s not known whether the popular 1940s and 1950s star who was born Frances Rose Shore derived her stage name from the suspiciously similar dino-saur, which means “terrible lizard.” (Paramount ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science June 12,2019 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-09 | Author:Robert Zubrin [Zubrin, Robert]

Putting the lunar base to good use. (List of Illustrations 9.1) Beyond Fruits and Vegetables Because you were brought up on Earth, you’ve no doubt had to endure years of ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science June 10,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-13 | Author:Robert Zubrin

The Advent of SpaceX There is, however, a bright spot on the horizon in the form of a wave of entrepreneurial activity, most particularly that of the SpaceX company. Founded ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science June 10,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-05-05 | Author:Lloyd, Andy [Lloyd, Andy]

Hurtling Through the Solar System The speed with which the mysterious object was moving was much faster than that of any regular, orbiting object in the solar system. At the ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science June 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-30 | Author:Jo Dunkley

They had expected to see something quite different. Based on what could be seen of the stars and gas and dust, the galaxies seemed to have a bright and dense ...
( Category: Astronomy May 30,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-11-15 | Author:Jo Dunkley

They had expected to see something quite different. Based on what could be seen of the stars and gas and dust, the galaxies seemed to have a bright and dense ...
( Category: Astronomy May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rod Pyle

Fig. 22.3. From left to right, the author, Ed Stone, and John Casani in 2018. Image from AIAA. Flying past Saturn was a true showstopper—as the most visually spectacular planet ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight May 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-06 | Author:Leonard David

* * * WITHOUT QUESTION, NASA’s long-lived Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been a game changer in the ability to inspect the Moon. On the job since entering orbit around ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight May 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-15 | Author:Prothero, Donald R.; Callahan, Timothy D.; Shermer, Michael

GIANT STONE SPHERES One common tactic of the ancient astronaut theorists is to seize on any mysterious or seemingly mysterious archaeological find, particularly one involving massive structures, assert that their ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies May 15,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-14 | Author:Launius, Roger D.

Earthrise, one of the most powerful and iconic images from the Apollo program, was taken by astronaut Bill Anders in December 1968 during the Apollo 8 mission. This view of ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight May 14,2019 )