Astronautics category: 1620 books
Atlas of Opportunity
Sols 1-4640
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Where is Opportunity, NASA's rover on Mars? This quick guide shows the whole path from landing in January 2004 to the exit from Endeavour crater in February 2017 - 13 years of non-stop exploration. Complete with names of craters, hills and geological targets all along the route. ...
Aviation and International Cooperation
Human and Public Policy Issues
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
This book addresses an essential gap in the regulatory regime, which provides legislation, statements and guidelines on airlines, airports, air navigation services providers and States in the field of aviation, but is notably lacking when it comes to the rights of the airline passenger, and the average...
Topics in Modal Analysis, Volume 10
Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Topics in Modal Analysis, Volume 10: Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015*,* the tenth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and...
The NeuroMuscular System: From Earth to Space Life Science
Neuromuscular Cell Signalling in Disuse and Exercise
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
The book provides fundamental new insights in the structure and function of the healthy NeuroMuscular system. Recent findings suggest that the musculoskeletal system that supports movement control on Earth is controlled by unique principles of structural, biochemical and molecular characteristics....
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
The Air Force System Safety Handbook was prepared as a resource document for program office system safety managers and system safety engineers. The handbook provides considerable insight to the general principles, objectives, and requirements of applying system safety concepts to the Air Force system...
by Albert Gollhofer, Dietrich Manzey, Otmar Bock
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This volume of the series SpringerBriefs in Space Life Sciences describes findings from space and accompanying ground research related to spatial orientation, posture and locomotion, cognition and psychomotor function.
The results are not only of importance to health and performance of astronauts...
by Stacey Solomone
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
This book addresses why China is going into space and provides up- to-date information on all aspects of the Chinese Space Program in terms of launch vehicles, launch sites and infrastructure, crew vehicles for space exploration, satellite applications and scientific exploration capabilities.
Beyond...
by Marco Aliberti
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2015
This book is about China’s ambitions in its most complex and internationally visible space endeavor, namely its human space exploration programme. It provides a comprehensive reflection on China´s strategic direction and objectives in space, including in particular those set forth in its human...
by Ethirajan Rathakrishnan
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Theoretical Aerodynamics is a user-friendly text for a full course on theoretical aerodynamics. The author systematically introduces aerofoil theory, its design features and performance aspects, beginning with the basics required, and then gradually proceeding to higher level. The mathematics involved...
Human Migration to Space
Alternative Technological Approaches for Long-Term Adaptation to Extraterrestrial Environments
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Human migration to space will be the most profound catalyst for evolution in the history of humankind, yet this has had little impact on determining our strategies for this next phase of exploration. Habitation in space will require extensive technological interfaces between humans and their alien...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
This book aims to deliver significant scientific progress on the problem of the erosion of geomaterials, focusing on the mechanical/physical aspect. The chapters oscillate between a phenomenological outlook that is well grounded in experiments, and an approach that can offer a modeling framework.
The...
by Don M. Flournoy
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Communication satellites are a $144 billion industry. Is there any space-based industry that could possibly beat that market? 'Solar Power Satellites' shows why and how the space satellite industry will soon begin expanding its market from relaying signals to Earth to generating energy in space and...
Post 2030-Agenda and the Role of Space
The UN 2030 Goals and Their Further Evolution Beyond 2030 for Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
This book provides a deep insight to which extent further improvement should be envisaged to ensure and improve the sustainable development beyond 2030 (the Sustainable Development Goals is a set of 17 global goals with 169 associated targets which the state community adopted in 2015). As the world,...
Women Spacefarers
Sixty Different Paths to Space
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This book tells the fascinating stories of the valiant women who broke down barriers to join the space program. Beginning with the orbital flight of USSR cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova in 1963, they became players in the greatest adventure of our time. The author contextualizes their accomplishments in...