Aeronautics Astronautics category: 1620 books

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this Air Force publication reviews the role of the USAF in space from the end of World War II to the present, based on a historical symposium on the Air Force's experience in the development of space systems and their...

With the success of the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon, Wernher von Braun presented an ambitious plan for manned missions to Mars as soon as the 1980s to the Space Task Group for consideration by President Richard Nixon as the next step in America's space program. Nixon rejected the plan, and the goal...

This is one of a series of systems engineering case studies prepared by the Air Force Center for Systems Engineering. This case study analyzes the Hubble Space Telescope program. The incredible story of the HST program from the early dreams and visions of a space-based telescope in 1946, through...

This publication reflects a compilation of excerpts from an unpublished broader treatment that recounts the nearly five decades of delicate coexistence between two nations known as the "superpowers" during the international conflict known as the "Cold War." Publication of this...

In Space Wars, Scott, Coumatos, and Birnes created a fascinating war gaming scenario of how World War III might unfold in above the Earth's surface. Now this thrilling team of writers reunites with Counterspace, an even more chilling fictionalized look at America's most catastrophic fears. What...

A brief preface lays out the purpose of the essay. Does increasing rifling to the screw level have advantages in weapons, or otherwise? Chapter 1 discusses screw ballistics design, types of shells, the breech, barrel, accelerant, and cleaning methods of the barrel. We note that the inclined plane...

The opening preface notes why high torque airplanes have never been a consideration of air design, early requirements of heavy lift better met with airships, and awkward objects to remote areas moved by heavy lift helicopters with their vertical takeoff and landing capability. A purpose is created...

A brief preface lays out purpose and outlook on cannons and guns in the future. Chapter 1 proposes a star-shape barrel formation for guns in the future, using un-tapered barrels but supported by rings and triangular struts between the star flanges. We discuss segmented guns, setup and breakdown and...

Thirty years after he graduated from the Navy's fighter/attack school, Robert Gandt returns to participate in the rigorous training program of the class of eight Navy and Marine pilots learning to fly the F/A-18 Hornet. Meet the identical twins from Middle America, the computer nerd with a penchant...

This is the first-ever publication detailing the Navy’s role in manned spacecraft recovery from 1961 to 1975, from Alan Shepherd’s initial suborbital mission to the Apollo-Soyuz flight, which inaugurated the first space collaboration between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Splashdown: NASA, the...

Our shelves contain countless books on the history of space travel, illustrated with colourful images of the moon and names we have frequently read: Alan Shepard, first American in space, John Glenn who orbited earth, Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon, Elliot See ... Wait a minute. Who is Elliot...

The oral histories of forty astronauts, engineers and managers for the NASA and the Russian space program provide fascinating insights into the highs and lows of the extraordinary Shuttle-Mir space station program, with hundreds of anecdotes and stories. Each history provides unique information about...

From the Foreword: From the dawn of military history, military strategists have wrestled with an enduring challenge—the challenge to define and prepare effectively for the next war. History is littered with the tragic tales of those armies and nations that failed to meet this challenge and paid...

A year after the disappearance and commencement of the international search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, no sign of the plane has been found-no debris, no bodies, no sign of the much-talked-about black box. Richard Belzer, George Noory, and David Wayne want to know why. Scrutinizing the...