Télécharger le livre :  Lunar and Interplanetary Trajectories

This book provides readers with a clear description of the types of lunar and interplanetary trajectories, and how they influence satellite-system design. The description follows an engineering rather than a mathematical approach and includes many examples of lunar...
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Parution : 2015-12-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Monitoring Volcanoes in the North Pacific

 This book provides a unique visual experience, showingsatellite images of volcanic eruptions worldwide anddetailed observations from the North Pacific ‘ring of fire’.Daily volcano monitoring and analysis from this region haveresulted in one of the most detailed...
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Parution : 2015-12-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Mars via the Moon

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...
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Parution : 2015-11-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Enhancing Hubble's Vision

This book tells the story of the four missions to maintain Hubble's successful operation. Between 1997 and 2009 these repaired, serviced and upgraded the instruments on the telescope to maintain its state-of-the-art capabilities. It draws on first hand interviews...
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Parution : 2015-11-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Interkosmos

This book focuses on the Interkosmos program, which was formed in 1967, marking a fundamentally new era of cooperation by socialist countries, led by the Soviet Union, in the study and exploration of space. The chapters shed light on the space program that was at that...
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Parution : 2015-11-19
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Télécharger le livre :  SpaceX's Dragon: America's Next Generation Spacecraft

Dragon V2 is a futuristic vehicle that not only provides a means for NASA to transport its astronauts to the orbiting outpost but also advances SpaceX’s core objective of reusability. A direct descendant of Dragon,Dragon V2 can be retrieved, refurbished and re-launched....
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Télécharger le livre :  Human Missions to Mars

A mission to send humans to explore the surface of Mars has been the ultimate goal of planetary exploration since the 1950s, when von Braun conjectured a flotilla of 10 interplanetary vessels carrying a crew of at least 70 humans. Since then, more than 1,000 studies...
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Parution : 2015-10-31
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Télécharger le livre :  The Lost Constellations

Casual stargazers are familiar with many classical figures and asterisms composed of bright stars (e.g., Orion and the Plough), but this book reveals not just the constellations of today but those of yesteryear. The history of the human identification of constellations...
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Parution : 2015-10-23
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Télécharger le livre :  A Passion for Space

Marianne J. Dyson recounts for us a time when women were making the first inroads into space flight control, a previously male-dominated profession. The story begins with the inspiration of the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon and follows the challenges of pursuing a...
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Parution : 2015-09-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Aurora 7

TO A NATION enthralled by the heroic exploits of the Mercury astronauts, the launch of Lt. Cmdr. Scott Carpenter on NASA’s second orbital space flight was a renewed cause for pride, jubilation and celebration. Within hours, that excitement had given way to stunned...
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Parution : 2015-08-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Light Scattering Reviews 10

The work is aimed at the review of hot topics in modern light scattering and radiative transfer. A special attention will be given to the description of the methods of integro-differential radiative transfer equation solution. In particular, the asymptotic radiative...
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Parution : 2015-07-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Countdown to a Moon Launch

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...
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Parution : 2015-07-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Rocket Ranch

Jonathan Ward takes the reader deep into the facilities at Kennedy Space Center to describe NASA’s first computer systems used for spacecraft and rocket checkout and explain how tests and launches proceeded. Descriptions of early operations include a harrowing account...
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Parution : 2015-06-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Humans in Space

Awarded the 2016 International Academy of Astronautics Life Science Book Award!Using anecdotal reports from astronauts and cosmonauts, and the results from studies conducted in space analog environments on Earth and in the actual space environment, this book broadly...
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Parution : 2015-06-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Astronomical Discoveries You Can Make, Too!

You too can follow in the steps of the great astronomers such as Hipparchus, Galileo, Kepler and Hubble, who all contributed so much to our modern understanding of the cosmos. This book gives the student oramateur astronomer the following tools to replicate some of...
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Télécharger le livre :  SEAFLOOR OBSERVATORIES

The oceans cover 70% of the terrestrial surface, and exert a pervasive influence on the Earth's environment but their nature is poorly recognized. Knowing the ocean's role deeply and understanding the complex, physical, biological, chemical and geological systems...
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Parution : 2015-05-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Friendship 7

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...
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Parution : 2015-04-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Survival and Sacrifice in Mars Exploration

With current technology, a voyage to Mars and back will take threeyears. That’s a lot of time for things to go wrong. But sooner or latera commercial enterprise will commit itself to sending humans to Mars.How will the astronauts survive? Some things to consider are:ith...
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Parution : 2015-03-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Virgin Galactic

Thirty years ago when Sir Richard Branson called up Boeing and asked if they had a spare 747, few would have predicted the brash entrepreneur would so radically transform the placid business of air travel. But today, Branson flies airlines on six continents, employs...
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Parution : 2015-02-23
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Télécharger le livre :  The Cassini-Huygens Visit to Saturn

Cassini-Huygens was the most ambitious and successful space journey ever launched to the outer Solar System. This book examines all aspects of the journey: its conception and planning; the lengthy political processes needed to make it a reality; the engineering and...
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Parution : 2015-01-02
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