epub, mobi |eng | 2000-04-11 | Author:Gene Kranz [Kranz, Gene]

I recognized a few of the Thompson committee members. Frank Borman, the Gemini astronaut, and Max Faget, the director of engineering, were from MSC, and John Williams was from the ...

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 |eng | 1996-09-24 | Author:Lawrence M. Krauss [Krauss, Lawrence M.]

CHAPTER SEVEN HOLODECKS AND HOLOGRAMS “Oh, we are us, sir. They are also us. So, indeed, we are both us.” —Data to Picard and Riker, in “We’ll Always Have Paris” ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Stephen Hawking [Hawking, Stephen]

INTEREST IN gravitational collapse was reawakened in the early 1960s with the discovery of quasars, very distant objects that are very compact and powerful optical and radio sources. Matter falling ...

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 |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Lawrence M. Krauss

CHAPTER 7 OUR MISERABLE FUTURE The future ain’t what it used to be. —YOGI BERRA In one sense it is both remarkable and exciting to find ourselves in a universe ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-10-09 | Author:Frank Close

Figure 6 Neutrinos produced in the decay of pions and moons. (a) A pion decays into a muon and a single neutrino. (b) When a muon (denoted it) decays into ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-04-20 | Author:Isaac Asimov

HABITABILITY The mere fact that a planet is in the ecosphere does not mean that it is a suitable abode for life; that it is habitable, in other words. For ...

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 |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, 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, epub |eng | 2004-01-26 | Author:Michael Cabbage & William Harwood

Gehman spent the afternoon at his home, reading contingency plan documents being faxed to him by Gregory’s office. The first thing he decided to do was change the name of ...

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 ...