Aeronautics category: 1620 books
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...
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...
Rocket Man
Robert H. Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2003
More famous in his day than Einstein or Edison, the troubled, solitary genius Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945) was the American father of rocketry and space flight, launching the world's first liquid-fuel rockets and the first powered vehicles to break the sound barrier. Supported by Charles Lindbergh...
by Sarah Scoles
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
*For anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered, "Are we alone?" * A brilliant examination of the science behind the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and its pioneer, Jill Tarter, the inspiration for the main character in Carl Sagan's Contact.
Jill Tarter...
Von Braun
Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Curator and space historian at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum delivers a brilliantly nuanced biography of controversial space pioneer Wernher von Braun.
Chief rocket engineer of the Third Reich and one of the fathers of the U.S. space program, Wernher von Braun is a source...
The Right Kind of Crazy
A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
From Adam Steltzner, who led the Entry, Descent, and Landing team in landing the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars, comes a profound book about breakthrough innovation in the face of the impossible
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is home to some of history’s most jaw-dropping feats...
Reggie The Rocket
What Goes Up Usually Comes Back Down
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The story of Reggie The Rocket closely tracks the history of the 1960s British Blue Streak rocket program. The author Douglas Anderson worked on the assembly and testing of the Rolls-Royce RZ2 engines powering the Blue Streak and was present in Woomera, Australia, for the launch of F3. Based on that...