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L’adaptation et la curiosité sont les principaux moteurs de l’évolution de l’humanitéFlorence Porcel fait partie des premières personnes à avoir appris le lancement du projet Mars One. Elle, qui n’ignore rien des controverses, des réserves des scientifiques ou des incertitudes techniques...

Both Jet-engine propelled aircraft and long-range rockets were first successfully flown during World War II. This led 10 rapid post-war improvements in both, and within two decades we had supersonic airplanes, communication satellites, and trips to the moon. Unmanned probes to Mars and the outer planets...

This book is about the 3I Sky Arrow, a light sport aircraft built in Italy.

Introduction to Aircraft Aeroelasticity and Loads, Second Edition is an updated new edition offering comprehensive coverage of the main principles of aircraft aeroelasticity and loads. For ease of reference, the book is divided into three parts and begins by reviewing the underlying disciplines of...

The article, “How Not to Register an ELT”, is an account of several ELT registrations that had problems, one of which went from bad to worse to hopeless.“Avoiding a Registration Mess”, is a discussion on how to avoid getting into the mess described in “How Not to Register an ELT”....

This incredible encyclopedia of information about the early days of America's spy satellite compiles material from six of our books about NRO programs into one handy guide. The previously classified documents in this collection, converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, were...

Spaceplanes From Airport to Spaceport presents a coherent, lucid, and optimistic picture of the future of the near future. Space vehicles may soon take off from international airports and refuel in space. New technologies could allow flights to take off regularly between the Earth and the Moon. The...

What happens with something becomes someone? In the aftermath of an asteroid impact, Earth’s power grid is damaged nearly beyond recovery. The survival of our world may well depend on energy sources collected from an abandoned undersea settlement beneath the icy surface of Enceladus. Earth-raised...

Since Lord Rayleigh introduced the idea of viscous damping in his classic work "The Theory of Sound" in 1877, it has become standard practice to use this approach in dynamics, covering a wide range of applications from aerospace to civil engineering. However, in the majority of practical...

L'histoire de l'aviation prend sa source dans le désir immémorial des hommes de s'élever dans les airs; la légende d'Icare en témoigne. Mais c'est à la Renaissance, avec Léonard de Vinci, que la première étude raisonnée sur le vol humain trouve son expression. On remarque que, si l'art de la naviguer...

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this is an excellent history of the historic Lunar Orbiter project in the 1960s leading to America's Apollo moon landing.Lunar Orbiter brought several new departures in U.S. efforts to explore the Moon before landing...

In Aircraft Stories noted sociologist of technoscience John Law tells “stories” about a British attempt to build a military aircraft—the TSR2. The intertwining of these stories demonstrates the ways in which particular technological projects can be understood in a world of complex contexts. Law...

Born out of tragedy and like none of her predecessors, over the course of her 25 missions and her 19-year career, this new orbiter would perform many vital and historic missions for humanity. Inspiring pride and admiration, Endeavour would fix the Hubble Space Telescope, begin construction of the International...

This textbook introduces the theories and practical procedures used in planetary spacecraft navigation. Written by a former member of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) navigation team, it delves into the mathematics behind modern digital navigation programs, as well as the numerous technological...