Aeronautics Astronautics category: 1620 books
Galileo Galilei : The Telescope & The Laws of Dynamics
(A Short Biography for Children)
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Galileo Galilei : The Telescope & The Laws of Dynamics (A Short Biography for Children) Galileo was an Italian scientist who led the Scientific Revolution, proposing the then controversial idea of Copernicanism, the idea that earth orbits the sun.
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Mission Control
Inventing the Groundwork of Spaceflight
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2015
Brave astronauts, flaring rockets, and majestic launches are only one side of the story of spaceflight. Any mission to space depends on years--if not decades--of work by thousands of dedicated individuals on the ground. These are the people whose voices offer a friendly link to Earth in the void of...
by Mark A. Burgess
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Aviation fans and experienced or aspiring pilots of any age will enjoy these entertaining stories from a successful charter pilot.
Anyone interested in general aviation, its history, and the funny and sometimes-scary adventures of a professional pilot will enjoy Mark Burgess' stories. With...
Sky Walking
An Astronaut's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
A gripping first-hand account of life in space and the making of an astronaut. What is it like to fly the space shuttle and work on and in the International Space Station? Veteran NASA astronaut Tom Jones is uniquely qualified to give the details: he flew four shuttle missions and led three space...
Moon Lander
How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Chief engineer Thomas J. Kelly gives a firsthand account of designing, building, testing, and flying the Apollo lunar module. It was, he writes, “an aerospace engineer’s dream job of the century.” Kelly’s account begins with the imaginative process of sketching solutions to a host of technical...
Truth, Lies, and O-Rings
Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2012
On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals, including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation’s collective memory.
In...
SR-71
The Complete Illustrated History of the Blackbird, The World's Highest, Fastest Plane
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
At the height of the Cold War in 1964, President Johnson announced a new aircraft dedicated to strategic reconnaissance. The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane flew more than three-and-a-half times the speed of sound, so fast that no other aircraft could catch it. Above 80,000 feet, its pilots had...
The God Machine
From Boomerangs to Black Hawks: The Story of the Helicopter
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
From transforming the ways of war to offering godlike views of inaccessible spots, revolutionizing rescues worldwide, and providing some of our most-watched TV moments—including the cloud of newscopters that trailed O. J. Simpson’s Bronco—the helicopter is far more capable than early inventors...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
From the Introduction: Reflections of a Technocrat is an autobiography that ends as a biography. John McLucas died on the first of December 2002, at the age of 82, with all but the last chapter remaining to be started. He had been preparing to do a memoir, on and off, for many years, but only in the...
Aeroservoelasticity
Modeling and Control
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
This monograph presents the state of the art in aeroservoelastic (ASE) modeling and analysis and develops a systematic theoretical and computational framework for use by researchers and practicing engineers. It is the first book to focus on the mathematical modeling of structural dynamics, unsteady...
by F. Landis Markley, John L. Crassidis
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
This book explores topics that are central to the field of spacecraft attitude determination and control. The authors provide rigorous theoretical derivations of significant algorithms accompanied by a generous amount of qualitative discussions of the subject matter. The book documents the development...
Into the Black
The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
A book “no aviation buff will want to miss” (The Wall Street Journal) and “the perfect tale that educates as it entertains” (#1 bestselling author Clive Cussler), Into the Black recaptures the historic moments leading up to and the exciting story of the astronauts who flew the daring maiden...
by Amir Abbas Emadzadeh, Jason Lee Speyer
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2011
Navigation in Space by X-ray Pulsars will consist of two parts. One is on modeling of X-ray pulsar signals. The second part explains how X-ray pulsar signals can be used to solve the relative navigation problem. This book formulates the problem, proposes a recursive solution, and analyzes different...
Robust and Adaptive Control
With Aerospace Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Robust and Adaptive Control shows the reader how to produce consistent and accurate controllers that operate in the presence of uncertainties and unforeseen events. Driven by aerospace applications the focus of the book is primarily on continuous-dynamical systems.
The text is a three-part...