Aeronautics category: 1620 books

Cover of Space Shuttle Program History: Historical Documentation about the Jake Garn Mission Simulator And Training Facility, Building Five at the Johnson Space Center
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014

This NASA document - converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction - provides a survey of the Jake Garn Mission Simulator and Training Facility (Building 5) at NASA's Johnson Space Center. The Jake Garn Mission Simulator and Training Facility (MSTF) was designed in the early...
Cover of The U.S. Response to China's ASAT Test: An International Security Space Alliance for the Future, Anti-Satellite Capabilities and China's Space Weapons Strategy
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012

From the Foreword: (Author) Lt Col Anthony Mastalir has done policy makers a welcome service by exploring the enigma wrapped in a conundrum which is Chinese space policy, focusing on the Chinese kinetic energy antisatellite (KE-ASAT) test of January 2007. That test ended a de facto moratorium on KE-ASAT...
Cover of Apollo and America's Moon Landing Program: Lunar Scientist Oral Histories, including George Carruthers, Edgar Cortright, Farouk El-Baz, James Head, Wilmot Hess, William Muehlberger, Leon Silver
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012

The fascinating oral histories of important Apollo lunar program scientists and researchers - converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction - provide new insights into this extraordinary effort, with vital observations about an era of space history that changed the world. The interviews...
Cover of Apollo and America's Moon Landing Program: NASA Recommendations to Space-Faring Entities - How to Protect and Preserve the Historic and Scientific Value of U.S. Government Lunar Artifacts
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014

NASA recognizes the steadily increasing technical capabilities of space-faring commercial entities and nations throughout the world and further recognizes that many are on the verge of landing spacecraft on the surface of the moon. Representatives of commercial entities have contacted NASA seeking...
Cover of The Eclipse Project (NASA SP-2000-4523) - Experiments with Unique Rocket Launch Technique Using Rope Aerotow, F-106A, QF-106A, Gordon Fullerton, Tethered Flights
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012

This is the fascinating story of a little-known futuristic research project which investigated a concept brought to the Dryden Flight Research Center by Kelly Space. Kelly hoped to demonstrate a new approach to satellite launching by towing a rocket to altitude behind a transport airplane. The...
Cover of NASA Report: Independent Review Team Orbital Sciences ATK ISS Space Station Resupply Orb-3 Cygnus Antares Rocket Failure Accident Investigation Report, October 2014 Event, Wallops MARS Launch Site
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this NASA report, released in October 2015, provides the findings of the independent review team of the Orbital Sciences ATK Orb-3 ISS Space Station resupply mission failure, October 28, 2014. At approximately 6:22 p.m....
Cover of They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus

They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus

An Incurable Dreamer Builds the First Civilian Spaceship

by Elizabeth Weil
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010

This is a classic American tale of dreams and obsession--the suspenseful, brilliantly written account of one eccentric man’s hunger to open space travel to us all: to let us rocket into orbit, return to earth, and soar yet again--thus transforming space travel forever. They All Laughed at...
Cover of Inside the International Space Station (ISS): Research Summary, Student Experiments, Educational Activities - Human Research for Exploration, Physical and Biological Sciences, Technology Development
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012

Two official NASA documents - converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction - provide detailed information on the experiments and research aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The first document is titled International Space Station Research Summary Through Expedition...
Cover of 2014 International Workshop on Research and Operational Considerations for Artificial Gravity Countermeasures: Mars Missions, Astronaut Performance, Long Duration Space Flight, Centrifugal Force
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this NASA document outlines the work of the 2014 International Workshop on Research and Operational Considerations for Artificial Gravity (AG) Countermeasures brought together almost 100 scientists from the United States...
Cover of NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services: A New Era in Spaceflight - History of International Space Station (ISS) Cargo and Crew, SpaceX, Orbital Sciences, Bigelow
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014

This document provides a history of the NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program executed by the Commercial Crew & Cargo Program Office from 2006 to 2013 at the Johnson Space Center. It provides unique insight into the amazing commercial effort that has seen two companies,...
Cover of NASA Report: International Space Station (ISS) Benefits for Humanity, 2nd Edition - Human Health, Earth Observation, Disaster Response, Technology, Global Education, Economic Development of Space
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2016

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this book summarizes the scientific, technological and educational accomplishments of research on the space station that have had and will continue to have an impact to life on Earth. All serve as examples of the space...
Cover of Why Planes Crash: 2001
by Sylvia Wrigley
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013

Air travel is one of the safest modes of travel when we take into account the distances and freedom that it allows us. And yet, we still remain obsessed with aviation disasters. What caused these accidents? Whose fault was it? In her series of books, Why Planes Crash, Sylvia Wrigley investigates the...
Cover of Aircraft Systems

Aircraft Systems

Mechanical, Electrical, and Avionics Subsystems Integration

by Ian Moir, Allan Seabridge
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011

This third edition of Aircraft Systems represents a timely update of the Aerospace Series’ successful and widely acclaimed flagship title. Moir and Seabridge present an in-depth study of the general systems of an aircraft – electronics, hydraulics, pneumatics, emergency systems and flight control...
Cover of Make: Drones

Make: Drones

Teach an Arduino to Fly

by David McGriffy
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016

Make: Drones will help the widest possible audience understand how drones work by providing several DIY drone projects based on the world's most popular robot controller--the Arduino. The information imparted in this book will show Makers how to build better drones and be better drone pilots, and...
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