History & Philosophy
mobi |eng | 2009-11-20 | Author:Cabbage, Michael & Harwood, William [Cabbage, Michael]
It was at an altitude and an airspeed that was probably not survivable. We don’t have confirmation of that, but I don’t want to give you a false sense that ...
( Category:
Transportation
September 19,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Norman Mailer [Mailer, Norman]
VI Long before, almost two and a half days before, not a half hour after the third stage had completed its five and a half minute burn and pushed Apollo ...
( Category:
Technology
September 19,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Robert Zimmerman [Zimmerman, Robert]
* * * It was now 4:29 AM (C.S.T.) on earth. The men in Houston’s mission control waited, barely able to speak or breathe. In the homes of the astronauts ...
( Category:
Americas
September 19,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-09-15 | Author:Charles A. Murray;Catherine Bly Cox
1 “Flight Operations was not born effective,” one veteran reminisced. “It became effective.” Back in 1959, when the Space Task Group was first struggling to put the program together, nothing ...
( Category:
Astronomy & Space Science
September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-02 | Author:Claude A. Piantadosi [Piantadosi, Claude A.]
FIGURE 6.3. THE MASS BALANCE OF THE HUMAN BODY. Daily requirements are based on an average metabolic rate for a 70 kg man in a thermally neutral environment (140 watts). ...
( Category:
Engineering
September 19,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-01-28 | Author:Hugh Harris
Chapter Nine: Whose Fault Was It? Soon after the accident, there were rumors of a meeting that took place the night before the launch that should have stopped it but ...
( Category:
History & Philosophy
September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-04 | Author:Jay Gallentine [Gallentine, Jay]
14 Devil from Redondo A horrendous undertaking. —Loyal Goff of NASA’s Viking Program Office, on the Viking Biology Instrument Unfettered and indiscriminate in attitude and behavior, the Looney Tunes Tasmanian ...
( Category:
Astronomy & Space Science
September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-26 | Author:Joan Lisa Bromberg
NASA versus Department of Defense space expenditures. The figures are in current-year dollars. They may not add because of rounding. Department of Defense expenditures on missiles are not included. Source: ...
( Category:
Industries
September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-27 | Author:Colin Burgess [Burgess, Colin]
A SINKING SPACECRAFT Unaware that Grissom was struggling to stay afloat in the ocean swells of three to six feet amplitude, Jim Lewis called upon all his flying skills and ...
( Category:
Engineering
September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-19 | Author:Erickson, Lance K.;
Figure 7.6. View of the Gemini VII capsule from Gemini VI-A. Source: NASA JSC. Although problems arose with the OAMS thrusters and the fuel cells during the mission, deorbit and ...
( Category:
Engineering
September 19,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-02-07 | Author:Tom Zoellner
Luck up! Luck up! Here comes the pit boss And he has his bright light In the night Already lit! Wismut had become, by that point, a “state within a ...
( Category:
Chemistry
September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kip Thorne
9.2 The principle of a radio interferometer. Left: In order to achieve good angular resolution, one would like to have a huge, say, l-kilometer, telescope. However, it would be sufficient ...
( Category:
Physics
September 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Stenger, Victor J. [Stenger, Victor J.]
We knew the world would not be the same. Few people laughed, few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu ...
( Category:
History & Philosophy
September 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-21 | Author:Loxton, Daniel & Prothero, Donald R. [Loxton, Daniel]
Figure 5.23 Many nineteenth-century artists and writers depicted epic battles between the newly discovered ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs. Onto that stage stepped Mary Anning, a working-class Englishwoman whose sharp eye and ...
( Category:
History & Philosophy
September 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-16 | Author:Fritze, Ronald H. [Fritze, Ronald H.]
Elijah Muhammad inherited a bleak situation from Fard. Official harassment, aided by the African-American clergy, continued in Detroit. By the beginning of April 1934 the Michigan Board of Education was ...
( Category:
Religious Studies
September 18,2017 )
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