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  • - The Next Giant Leap
    af Erik Seedhouse
    278,95 kr.

    MOMENTUM IS BUILDING for a return to the Moon. While much has been learned about the Moon over the years, we don't understand its resource wealth potential and the technologies to exploit those resources have yet to be developed, but there are a number of companies that are developing these capabilities.

  • - for Spacecraft and High Reliability Applications
    af Barrie D. Dunn
    2.202,95 - 2.638,95 kr.

    Materials and Processes

  • - Adventures of a Pioneering Female NASA Flight Controller
    af Marianne J. Dyson
    318,95 kr.

    Dyson relates the first five space shuttle flights from the personal perspective of mission planning and operations in Houston at the Johnson Space Center, based almost exclusively on original sources such as journals and NASA weekly activity reports.

  • - Preparing Apollo for Its Historic Journey
    af Jonathan H. Ward
    570,95 kr.

    Thousands of workers labored at Kennedy Space Center around the clock, seven days a week, for half a year to prepare a mission for the liftoff of Apollo 11. Using the Apollo 11 mission as an example, readers will learn what went on day by day to transform partially completed stages and crates of parts into a ready-to-fly Saturn V.

  • - The Nuts and Bolts of the Apollo Moon Program at Kennedy Space Center
    af Jonathan H. Ward
    515,95 kr.

    Jonathan Ward takes the reader deep into the facilities at Kennedy Space Center to describe NASA's first computer systems used for spacecraft and rocket checkout and explain how tests and launches proceeded.

  • af Walter J. Maciel
    506,95 - 631,95 kr.

    This book provides a comprehensive overview of stellar structure, evolution and basic stellar properties.

  • - What We Know from Polar Expeditions
    af Erik Seedhouse
    388,95 kr.

    Fortunately, the experience gained in polar exploration morethan 100 years ago provides crews and mission planners with a frameworkto deal with contingencies and it is this that forms the core of this book. Why the parallels between polar and space exploration?

  • - The Suborbital Mercury Flight of Virgil I. Grissom
    af Colin Burgess
    428,95 kr.

    That day NASA not only lost a spacecraft but came perilously close to losing one of its Mercury astronauts, a decorated Korean fighter pilot from Indiana who might one day have soared to the highest goal of them all, as the first person to set foot on the Moon.

  • - The First Ten Years
    af Erik Seedhouse
    454,95 kr.

    This book explains the hurdles Virgin Galactic had and still has to overcome en route to developing suborbital space travel as a profitable economic entity, and describes the missions that will be flown on board SpaceShipTwo Mk II, including high-altitude science studies, astronomy, life sciences, and microgravity physics.

  • - Replicating the Work of the Great Observers
    af Robert K. Buchheim
    573,95 kr.

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    3.560,95 kr.

    This book presents the best contributions of the the Third International Symposium on Solar Sailing Glasgow, 11 - 13 June 2013. It is a rapid snap-shot of the state-of-the art of solar sail technology in 2013 across the globe, capturing flight programs, technology development programs and new technology and application concepts.

  • - A New Vision of the Earth from the Abyss
    af Paolo Favali, Laura Beranzoli & Angelo De Santis
    1.333,95 - 1.771,95 kr.

    This book addresses the important and apparently simple question: "How can continuous and reliable monitoring at the seafloor by means of seafloor observatories extend exploration and improve knowledge of our planet?"

  • - Inventing the Future
    af J.B. Williams
    360,95 kr.

    This book is about how electronics, computing, and telecommunications have profoundly changed our lives - the way we work, live, and play. Today our lives are ruled by electronics as they control the home and computers dominate the workspace.

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    6.108,95 kr.

    This book offers a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of space technology and an understanding of the end-to-end space mission. Covers processes and methodologies behind the design, development, operation and use of space systems technology, system by system.

  • - Fundamentals and Guidelines for Astronomers
    af Thomas Eversberg & Klaus Vollmann
    1.154,95 - 1.655,95 kr.

    Today they can be done using self-designed spectrographs and highly efficient CCD cameras, without the need for large financial investments.This book explains the basic principles of spectroscopy, including the fundamental optical constraints and all mathematical aspects needed to understand the working principles in detail.

  • - Research and Risk Mitigation
    af Ragnar Stefánsson
    1.620,95 - 1.899,95 kr.

    Using the special natural conditions in Iceland as a "test area", this book describes the major efforts in earthquake prediction research worldwide. The results obtained in Iceland are of significance for earthquake prediction research around the world.

  • - The Ultimate Reality TV Show?
    af Erik Seedhouse
    258,95 kr.

    A controversial project, many professional astronauts consider Mars One a reckless attempt, yet it gained popular attention.This go-to reference guide provides the reader with insights into the myriad issues arising from the project's loss of funding, loss of sponsorship, loss of TV rights.

  • - Light Scattering and Radiative Transfer
     
    2.098,95 kr.

    This is the eleventh volume in the series Light Scattering Reviews, devoted to current knowledge of light scattering problems and both experimental and theoretical research techniques related to their solution.

  • - Light Scattering and Radiative Transfer
    af Alexander A. Kokhanovsky
    1.536,95 - 1.630,95 kr.

    The work is aimed at the review of hot topics in modern light scattering and radiative transfer. A special attention will be given to the description of the methods of integro-differential radiative transfer equation solution. In particular, the asymptotic radiative transfer and the method of discrete ordinates will be considered.

  • - Studies and Applications
    af Lasse H. Pettersson, Vitali Alexandrov, Ivan Ye. Frolov, mfl.
    2.793,95 - 2.938,95 kr.

    Remote Sensing of Sea Ice in the Northern Sea Route: Studies and Applications initially provides a history of the Northern Sea Route as an important strategic transport route for supporting the northern regions of Russia and cargo transportation between Europe and the Northern Pacific Basin.

  • - The Epic Orbital Flight of John H. Glenn, Jr.
    af Colin Burgess
    458,95 kr.

  • - Part 2: Hiatus and Renewal, 1983-1996
    af Paolo Ulivi
    437,95 kr.

    Provides a comprehensive review in two parts of the exploration of the Solar System, focusing on the technology of the robotic space probes that made it possible, including missions which - for a variety of reasons - were never completed.

  • af David J. Shayler & Michael D. Shayler
    516,95 kr.

    "Manned Spaceflight Log" discusses over 40 recent spaceflights from September 2006 through September 2012, a time of great change in human spaceflight history.

  • - The Search for America's First Astronauts
    af Colin Burgess
    548,95 kr.

    All of the candidates were among the nation's elite pilots involved in testing new supersonic aircraft capabilities. some were test pilots on top secret and sophisticated aviation projects, while others were fleet admirals, prisoners of war, and proposed pilots for spaceflight programs such as the Dyna-Soar (X-20).

  • - Their Lives and Legacies
    af Colin Burgess & Rex Hall
    329,95 kr.

    The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team will relate who these men were and offer far more extensive background stories, in addition to those of the more familiar names of early Soviet space explorers from that group.

  • - Triumph and Tragedy
    af Grujica S. Ivanovich
    329,95 kr.

    This remarkable book gives a comprehensive account of the longest manned space mission of the time. The book ends with memories of all those affected by the DOS program and the tragedy of Soyuz 11 and looks forward to a continuation of the historic mission of Salyut.

  • - Paving the Way for Apollo 11
    af David M. Harland
    374,95 kr.

    In 'Paving the Way for Apollo 11' David Harland explains the lure of the Moon to classical philosophers, astronomers, and geologists, and how NASA set out to investigate the Moon in preparation for a manned lunar landing mission. It focuses particularly on the Lunar Orbiter and Surveyor missions.

  • af Shayler David
    384,95 kr.

    This book provides unique access to the story of how scientists were accepted into the American Space Programme, and reveals how, after four difficult decades, the role of the heroic test pilot astronaut has been replaced by men and women who are science orientated space explorers.

  • - A Five Hundred Year Record of Discovery
    af John Manning, Robert Clancy & Henk Brolsma
    530,95 kr.

    Everyone likes maps and maps are always used to illustrate the many books on the Antarctic. Here the focus is reversed with contemporary maps telling the story - one that should be attractive to the widest audience as it is a unique approach complimenting what has gone before and providing something different for all interested in Antarctica.

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