Beyond the Atmosphere
Author | : Homer Edward Newell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Astronautics |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Homer Edward Newell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Astronautics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Homer Edward Newell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Astronautics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Homer Edward Newell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Astronautics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Homer E. Newell |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2011-09-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0486135659 |
This exciting survey of the American space science program is the work of a top NASA administrator. Ranging from the laboratory to launching pad and from international conference halls to lunar wastelands, it chronicles technological advances, explores the relationship of space science to general science, and places the space program in a broader social, political, and economic context. Homer E. Newell was instrumental in the founding of NASA and worked for the agency from its inception until 1973. In the early 1960s, he influenced or directly controlled virtually all of the free world's nonmilitary unmanned space missions. Newell's insider perspective offers fascinating insights into the personalities, opinions, and steady advance of ideas that characterize the U.S. space program.
Author | : Homer Edward Newell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Astronautics |
ISBN | : 9789780486471 |
Author | : Joshua P. Howe |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2014-04-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0295805099 |
In 1958, Charles David Keeling began measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. His project kicked off a half century of research that has expanded our knowledge of climate change. Despite more than fifty years of research, however, our global society has yet to find real solutions to the problem of global warming. Why? In Behind the Curve, Joshua Howe attempts to answer this question. He explores the history of global warming from its roots as a scientific curiosity to its place at the center of international environmental politics. The book follows the story of rising CO2—illustrated by the now famous Keeling Curve—through a number of historical contexts, highlighting the relationships among scientists, environmentalists, and politicians as those relationships changed over time. The nature of the problem itself, Howe explains, has privileged scientists as the primary spokespeople for the global climate. But while the “science first” forms of advocacy they developed to fight global warming produced more and better science, the primacy of science in global warming politics has failed to produce meaningful results. In fact, an often exclusive focus on science has left advocates for change vulnerable to political opposition and has limited much of the discussion to debates about the science itself. As a result, while we know much more about global warming than we did fifty years ago, CO2 continues to rise. In 1958, Keeling first measured CO2 at around 315 parts per million; by 2013, global CO2 had soared to 400 ppm. The problem is not getting better - it's getting worse. Behind the Curve offers a critical and levelheaded look at how we got here.
Author | : Asif A. Siddiqi |
Publisher | : National Aeronautis & Space Administration |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Planets |
ISBN | : |
This is a completely updated and revised version of a monograph published in 2002 by the NASA History Office under the original title Deep Space Chronicle: A Chronology of Deep Space and Planetary Probes, 1958-2000. This new edition not only adds all events in robotic deep space exploration after 2000 and up to the end of 2016, but it also completely corrects and updates all accounts of missions from 1958 to 2000--Provided by publisher.
Author | : G. Harry Stine |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2014-03-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 159077258X |
We are the first species with the ability to leave planet Earth and expand the horizons of existence into the infinite realm of the universe. Humanity has been working, learning and building toward this accomplishment throughout history. Those who live and work in space will be no different from their predecessors who left ancient homelands to venture into the unknown wilderness. But to travel and work in space, one must not only know the physical characteristics of the space environment, but also something about the human beings involved. Living in Space explains: -Technology necessary for staying happy, healthy and alive in space. - Effects of acceleration on the human body - The long term affects of living in zero-g conditions - The most harmful forms of ionizing radiation for humans - Nutrition and Sanitation - Basic problems of working in space. The people who go into space to live and work are setting the foundation for humanity’s future.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
ISBN | : |
Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.
Author | : David C. Catling |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 595 |
Release | : 2017-04-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0521844126 |
A comprehensive and authoritative text on the formation and evolution of planetary atmospheres, for graduate-level students and researchers.