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Cover of Just Rocket & Astronaut Photos! Big Book of Photographs & Pictures of Rockets, Astronauts, and Spaceships, Vol. 1
by Big Book of Photos
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013

This is a wonderful collection of 30 high-quality amazing images produced by a series of today's top professional photographers. Enjoy and be inspired!
Cover of Standard Aircraft Handbook for Mechanics and Technicians, Seventh Edition
by Larry Reithmaier, Ron Sterkenburg
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013

The practical, on-the-job aircraft manual--now fully updated For more than 60 years, the Standard Aircraft Handbook for Mechanics and Technicians has been the trusted resource for building, maintaining, overhauling, and repairing aircraft. This illustrated guide provides clear, step-by-step procedures...
Cover of Making Starships and Stargates

Making Starships and Stargates

The Science of Interstellar Transport and Absurdly Benign Wormholes

by James F. Woodward
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012

To create the exotic materials and technologies needed to make stargates and warp drives is the holy grail of advanced propulsion. A less ambitious, but nonetheless revolutionary, goal is finding a way to accelerate a spaceship without having to lug along a gargantuan reservoir of fuel that you blow...
Cover of Spaceshots and Snapshots of Projects Mercury and Gemini
by John Bisney, J. L. Pickering
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016

The race to space between the United States and the Soviet Union captured the popular imagination. On April 12, 1961, the USSR launched cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on a one-orbit flight, making him the first human in space. Three weeks later, American astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. flew 116 miles above...
Cover of DIY Drone and Quadcopter Projects

DIY Drone and Quadcopter Projects

A Collection of Drone-Based Essays, Tutorials, and Projects

by The Editors of Make:
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016

Drones, quadcopters, Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): whatever they're called, remotely-controlled aircraft have changed the way we see the world, the way we manage crops, the way we sell real estate, and the way we make war. This book contains tutorials about how to understand what drones can do,...
Cover of Avionics Troubleshooting and Repair
by Edward R. Maher
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2001

FIX THE MOST COMMON PROBLEMS IN AVIONICS Keep planes flying smoothly and safely with the best guide ever written on caring for avionic components. Avionics Troubleshooting and Repair is packed with assembly, installation, and troubleshooting techniques for use by both pilots and technicians....
Cover of Getting Started with Drones

Getting Started with Drones

Build and Customize Your Own Quadcopter

by Terry Kilby, Belinda Kilby
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015

Want to make something that can fly? How about a flying robot? In this book, you'll learn how drones work, how to solve some of the engineering challenges a drone presents, and how to build your own--an autonomous quadcopter that you can build, customize, and fly. Your drone will be your eyes in the sky and in places where a human could never get to-much less fit!
Cover of Friendship 7

Friendship 7

The Epic Orbital Flight of John H. Glenn, Jr.

by Colin Burgess
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015

In this spellbinding account of an historic but troubled orbital mission, noted space historian Colin Burgess takes us back to an electrifying time in American history, when intrepid pioneers were launched atop notoriously unreliable rockets at the very dawn of human space exploration. A nation...
Cover of Exuberance
by Dolores Hayden
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019

Daredevil pilots Lincoln Beachey, Betty Scott, Harriet Quimby, Ruth Law, Ormer Locklear, Bessie Coleman, and Clyde Pangborn fly at carnival altitudes to thrill millions of spectators who have never seen an airplane. In a lyrical sequence of persona poems, the pilots in Exuberance wonder how the experience...
Cover of Archie to SAM: A Short Operational History of Ground-Based Air Defense, From Guns to Missiles, Ballistic Missile Defense, Star Wars, Patriot, PAC-3, Arrow, Naval Developments, THAAD
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012

Archie to SAM is an update in 2005 to Kenneth Werrell's Archie, Flak, AAA, and SAM. He continues to study ground-based air defense systems in new events, including the Gulf War. In rescuing ground-based air defense systems from long neglect, Werrell delves into such topics as tactics, leadership,...
Cover of The Designer's Guide to VHDL
by Peter J. Ashenden
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2001

Since the publication of the first edition of The Designer's Guide to VHDL in 1996, digital electronic systems have increased exponentially in their complexity, product lifetimes have dramatically shrunk, and reliability requirements have shot through the roof. As a result more and more designers...
Cover of NASA Post-Apollo Lunar Exploration Plans: Moonlab Study - Semi-Permanent Lunar Surface Observatory Concept, Personnel, Life Support, Lunar Farm, Moon Base Layout and Design
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013

This fascinating 1968 report describes the results of a study of a semi-permanent lunar surface observatory, called Moonlab. Many unusual aspects of a moonbase are explored, including a futuristic take on astronauts for the mission: "Another more remote possibility is that the people pool will...
Cover of Countdown to a Moon Launch

Countdown to a Moon Launch

Preparing Apollo for Its Historic Journey

by Jonathan H. Ward
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015

Thousands of workers labored at Kennedy Space Center around the clock, seven days a week, for half a year to prepare a mission for the liftoff of Apollo 11. This is the story of what went on during those hectic six months. Countdown to a Moon Launch provides an in-depth look at the carefully...
Cover of The Killing Zone, Second Edition : How & Why Pilots Die, Second Edition
by Paul Craig
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013

WARNING! Don't fly solo before you understand all the dangers of the killing zone. It could save your life! This survival guide for new pilots identifies the pitfalls waiting inside the killing zone, the period from 50 to 350 flight hours when they leave their instructors behind and...
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