Astronautics category: 1620 books
Burt Rutan's Race to Space
The Magician of Mojave and His Flying Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2011
Years ago, Burt Rutan told a reporter for Popular Mechanics, “If we make a courageous decision like the goal and program we kicked off for Apollo in 1961, we will see our children or grandchildren in outposts on other planets.” Legendary science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clark would later recall...
by John McPhee
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
This is the fascinating story of the dream of a completely new aircraft, a hybrid of the plane and the rigid airship - huge, wingless, moving slowly through the lower sky. John McPhee chronicles the perhaps unfathomable perseverance of the aircraft's sucessive progenitors
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
The complete story of the amazing flight of US Airways 1549 is contained in this reproduction of the official National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report on the incident, along with the transcript of a hearing before a House of Representatives committee. In addition to coverage of the ditching,...
How Do You Go To The Bathroom In Space?
All the Answers to All the Questions You Have About Living in Space
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Have you ever wondered what it's really like for an astronaut in outer space? From the exciting moments to the day-to-day details, from the serious to the humorous, you'll find answers to every question you've ever had about living in space!
What does it feel like to be weightless? Would a...
Summary: Hidden Figures - Summarized for Busy People
The American Dream and the Untold Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
This book summary and analysis was created for individuals who want to extract the essential contents and are too busy to go through the full version. This book is not intended to replace the original book. Instead, we highly encourage you to buy the full version.
In Hidden Figures, Margot...
The Birth of NASA
The Work of the Space Task Group, America's First True Space Pioneers
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
This is the story of the work of the original NASA space pioneers; men and women who were suddenly organized in 1958 from the then National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) into the Space Task Group. A relatively small group, they developed the initial mission concept plans and procedures...
Make: Rockets
Down-to-Earth Rocket Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
This book teaches the reader to build rockets--powered by compressed air, water, and solid propellant--with the maximum possible fun, safety, and educational experience.Make: Rockets is for all the science geeks who look at the moon and try to figure out where Neil Armstrong walked, watch in...
by Sonia Gueldenpfennig
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Space is the final frontier and these ten women have established their place on it. This collection of ten biographies features women who have made an important contribution to the exploration of space. Included are Jerrie Cobb, who could only dream of fl
Explore Flight!
With 25 Great Projects
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Who invented the airplane? When were airplanes invented? And why do planes have wings if the wings don't flap? Kids can answer these questions and more by jumping into the cockpit and soaring into Explore Flight! With 25 Great Projects, where they'll learn about the history of our human obsession...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
This NASA history document - converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction - tells the exciting story of the HL-10 NASA lifting body. From the foreword: The story we want to tell is a bit unique. The story of the development and flight testing of a unique aerospace vehicle—the horizontal...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Airplane travel is surely one of the most significant technological achievements of the last century. The impact of the airplane goes far beyond the realm of the history of technology and touches upon virtually every aspect of society, from economics to politics to engineering and science. While space...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
This report contains an investigation of the history of missile, rocket, instrumentation, and aeromedical research programs conducted at and around Holloman Air Force Base. Research was completed for 11 programs, including six missile and rocket development complexes, a series of instrumentation facilities...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Milt Thompson's account of lessons to be learned involves aspects of the history of flight research at what was then called the Flight Research Center and its predecessor organizations— redesignated in 1976 the Hugh L. Dryden Flight Research Center. Many fascinating topics are covered: lifting bodies,...
LZ-127 "Graf Zeppelin" The story of an airship vol.1
The story of an airship
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Of all the airships that Germany ever built, few gained the recognition and fame as did the LZ-127 „Graf Zeppelin. No other airship made more flights, transported more passengers, carried more mail and covered a greater distance, than did the Graf Zeppelin”. Its unique design, steadfast airworthiness,...