Astronautics category: 1620 books
by William Sims Bainbridge
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
At the intersection of astronautics, computer science, and social science, this book introduces the challenges and insights associated with computer simulation of human society in outer space, and of the dynamics of terrestrial enthusiasm for space exploration. Never before have so many dynamic representations...
by Oleksiy Serdyuk, Natalia Shkurat
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Despite the fact that year 2018 has recently begun, it has already been marked by a number of important events in Cosmonautics. Many important events also await us in the near future. Humanity is becoming more confident in exploring space, and Cosmonautics has long become an indispensable branch in...
by Jun Liu, Zhufeng Yue, Xiaoliang Geng
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
This book addresses anti-fatigue manufacturing, analysis and test verification technologies for typical aircraft structures, including fastening holes, shot peening plates, different types of joints and wing boxes. Offering concrete solutions to practical problems in aircraft engineering, it will benefit researchers and engineers in the fields of Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.
The Space Barons
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
The historic quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space led by two rivals and their vast fortunes, egos, and visions of space as the next entrepreneurial frontier
The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes into...
Howard's Whirlybirds
Howard Hughes' Amazing Pioneering Helicopter Exploits
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Howard Hughes, the movie mogul, aviation pioneer and political hound dog, has always fascinated the public with his mixture of secrecy, dashing lifestyle and reclusiveness. Companies responsible for major technological leaps often become household names. An exception is Howard Hughes's pioneering...
Predator: The Remote-Control Air War over Iraq and Afghanistan: A Pilot's Story
The Remote-Control Air War over Iraq and Afghanistan: A Pilot's Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The Nintendo generation has taken to the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan where remotely controlled aircraft are killing America¹s enemies and saving American lives. Matt J. Martin is considered a "top gun" in the world of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). For nearly four years, he has...
by John P. Hornung
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
This is the autobiography of John P. Hornung, a rocket scientist during the early years of NASA’s Apollo Mission to the moon. The writing describes four chapters in his life. Three of them were selected for their significance in U.S. history; early school integration in the deep south, a period...
Carrying the Fire
50th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Reissued with a new preface by the author on the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 journey to the moon
The years that have passed since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon in July 1969 have done nothing to alter the fundamental wonder...
X-15 Diary
The Story of America's First Space Ship
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The riveting true story of the world’s fastest plane and the first manned flights into outer space.
First tested in 1959, the X-15 rocket plane was at the forefront of the space race. Developed by the US Air Force and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in collaboration...
Failure Is Not an Option
Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2001
This memoir of a veteran NASA flight director tells riveting stories from the early days of the Mercury program through Apollo 11 (the moon landing) and Apollo 13, for both of which Kranz was flight director.
Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America’s manned space program and was...
Forever Young: A Life of Adventure in Air and Space
A Life of Adventure in Air and Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
He walked on the Moon. He flew six space missions in three different programs--more than any other human. He served with NASA for more than four decades. His peers called him the "astronaut's astronaut."
Enthusiasts of space exploration have long waited for John Young to tell the...
Quest for Flight
John J. Montgomery and the Dawn of Aviation in the West
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
The Wright brothers have long received the lion’s share of credit for inventing the airplane. But a California scientist succeeded in flying gliders twenty years before the Wright’s powered flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Quest for Flight reveals the amazing accomplishments of John J. Montgomery,...
How to Make a Spaceship
A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
**A New York Times bestseller!
The historic race that reawakened the promise of manned spaceflight
A Finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award**
Alone in a Spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill rocketed toward space. He had eighty seconds to exceed...
Safely to Earth
The Men and Women Who Brought the Astronauts Home
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
National Federation of Press Women National Communications Contest, First Place for Autobiography/Memoir Delaware Press Association Communications Contest, First Place for Autobiography/Memoir In this one-of-a-kind memoir, Jack Clemons—a former lead engineer in support of NASA—takes readers behind...