Aeronautics Astronautics category: 1620 books

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Mars One

The Ultimate Reality TV Show?

by Erik Seedhouse
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016

This book dissects the hype and hubris of the Mars One venture. Every aspect of the mission design is scrutinized, from the haphazard selection process to the unproven mission architecture. A controversial project, many professional astronauts consider Mars One a reckless attempt, yet it gained popular...
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To Orbit and Back Again

How the Space Shuttle Flew in Space

by Davide Sivolella
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013

The Space Shuttle has been the dominant machine in the U.S. space program for thirty years and has generated a great deal of interest among space enthusiasts and engineers. This book enables readers to understand its technical systems in greater depth than they have been able to do so before. The...
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Mars via the Moon

The Next Giant Leap

by Erik Seedhouse
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2015

MOMENTUM IS BUILDING for a return to the Moon. NASA’s international partners on the International Space Station are in favor of returning to the lunar surface, as are India and China. The horizon goal may be Mars, but the political, funding and the technological and medical infeasibility of such...
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Gemini 4

An Astronaut Steps into the Void

by David J. Shayler
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018

The flight of Gemini 4 in June 1965 was conducted barely four years after the first Americans flew in space. It was a bold step by NASA to accomplish the first American spacewalk and to extend the U.S. flight duration record to four days. This would be double the experience gained from the six Mercury...
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Gemini Flies!

Unmanned Flights and the First Manned Mission

by David J. Shayler
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018

In May 1961, President John F. Kennedy committed the United States to landing a man on the moon before the end of the decade. With just a handful of years to pull it off, NASA authorized the Project Gemini space program, which gathered vital knowledge needed to achieve the nation’s goal. This book...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016

The book presents the best articles presented by researchers, academicians and industrial experts in the International Conference on “Innovative Design and Development Practices in Aerospace and Automotive Engineering (I-DAD 2016)”. The book discusses new concept designs, analysis and manufacturing...
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by Juan Fu, Bengt Sundén
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016

Heat Transfer in Aerospace Applications is the first book to provide an overall description of various heat transfer issues of relevance for aerospace applications. The book contains chapters relating to convection cooling, heat pipes, ablation, heat transfer at high velocity, low pressure and microgravity,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2012

The goals of the 10th International Space Conference on “Protection of Materials and Structures from Space Environment” ICPMSE-10J, since its inception in 1992, have been to facilitate exchanges between members of the various engineering and science disciplines involved in the development of space...
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by Brian McConnell, Alexander Tolley
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015

 Based on components already in existence, this manual details a reference design for an interplanetary spacecraft that is simple, durable, fully reusable and comprised mostly of water. Using such an accessible material leads to a spacecraft architecture that is radically simpler, safer and cheaper...
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Advanced Composite Materials for Aerospace Engineering

Processing, Properties and Applications

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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016

Advanced Composite Materials for Aerospace Engineering: Processing, Properties and Applications predominately focuses on the use of advanced composite materials in aerospace engineering. It discusses both the basic and advanced requirements of these materials for various applications in the aerospace...
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by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014

This unique NASA report provides information and lessons learned from shuttle avionics testing constraints. Objective - Consolidate within one report the operational Constraints and Considerations for launch site testing of the present Shuttle Avionics systems. Constraint - Testing that requires special...
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by H. W. Liepmann, A. Roshko
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013

First-rate text covers introductory concepts from thermodynamics, one-dimensional gas dynamics and one-dimensional wave motion, waves in supersonic flow, flow in ducts and wind tunnels, methods of measurement, the equations of frictionless flow, small-perturbation theory, transonic flow, and much more. For advanced undergraduate or graduate physics and engineering students.
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Detonation Control for Propulsion

Pulse Detonation and Rotating Detonation Engines

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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017

This book focuses on the latest developments in detonation engines for aerospace propulsion, with a focus on the rotating detonation engine (RDE). State-of-the-art research contributions are collected from international leading researchers devoted to the pursuit of controllable detonations for practical...
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Miles' Equation in Random Vibrations

Theory and Applications in Spacecraft Structures Design

by Jaap Wijker
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018

This book discusses the theory, applicability and numerous examples of Miles’ equation in detail. Random vibration is one of the main design drivers in the context of the design, development and verification of spacecraft structures, instruments, equipment, etc, and Miles’ equation provides a...
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