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Author | : John Wishart MACVEY |
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Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1969 |
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Download Journey to Alpha Centauri. How we will reach the stars, etc Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : John W. Macvey |
Publisher | : New York : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Extraterrestrial anthropology |
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Author | : Amy Shira Teitel |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2015-10-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1472911199 |
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The incredible story of spaceflight before the establishment of NASA. NASA's history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the Moon in 1969. But America's space agency wasn't created in a vacuum. It was assembled from pre-existing parts, drawing together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer. In the 1930s, rockets were all the rage in Germany, the focus both of scientists hoping to fly into space and of the German armed forces, looking to circumvent the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles. One of the key figures in this period was Wernher von Braun, an engineer who designed the rockets that became the devastating V-2. As the war came to its chaotic conclusion, von Braun escaped from the ruins of Nazi Germany, and was taken to America where he began developing missiles for the US Army. Meanwhile, the US Air Force was looking ahead to a time when men would fly in space, and test pilots like Neil Armstrong were flying cutting-edge, rocket-powered aircraft in the thin upper atmosphere. Breaking the Chains of Gravity tells the story of America's nascent space program, its scientific advances, its personalities and the rivalries it caused between the various arms of the US military. At this point getting a man in space became a national imperative, leading to the creation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, otherwise known as NASA.
Author | : Joe Haldeman |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0312536631 |
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"Del Rey book." Battling the Taurans in space was one problem as Private William Mandella worked his way up the ranks to major. In spanning the stars, he aged only months while Earth aged centuries.
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Total Pages | : 816 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Science |
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Download The Popular Science Monthly Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : P. Andrew Karam |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2017-10-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1780238584 |
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Radiating fire and ice, comets as a phenomenon seem part science, part myth. Two thousand years ago when a comet shot across the night sky, it convinced the Romans that Julius Caesar was a god. In 1066, Halley’s Comet was interpreted as a foreshadowing of the death of Harold the Second in the Battle of Hastings. Even today the arrival of a comet often feels auspicious, confirming our hopes, fears, and sense of wonder in the universe. In Comets, P. Andrew Karam takes the reader on a far-ranging exploration of these most beautiful and dramatic objects in the skies, revealing how comets and humanity have been interwoven throughout history. He delves into the science of comets and how it has changed over time; the way comets have been depicted in art, religion, literature, and popular culture; and how comets have appeared in the heavens through the centuries. Comprehensive in scope and beautifully illustrated throughout, the book will appeal not only to the budding astronomer, but to anyone with an appreciation for these compelling and remarkable celestial bodies.
Author | : Paul Gilster |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2013-04-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1475738943 |
Download Centauri Dreams Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
I wrote this book because I wanted to learn more about interstel lar flight. Not the Star Trek notion of tearing around the Galaxy in a huge spaceship-that was obviously beyond existing tech nology-but a more realistic mission. In 1989 I had videotaped Voyager 2's encounter with Neptune and watched the drama of robotic exploration over and over again. I started to wonder whether we could do something similar with Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun. Everyone seemed to agree that manned flight to the stars was out of the question, if not permanently then for the indefinitely foreseeable future. But surely we could do something with robotics. And if we could figure out a theoretical way to do it, how far were we from the actual technology that would make it happen? In other words, what was the state of our interstellar technology today, those concepts and systems that might translate into a Voyager to the stars? Finding answers meant talking to people inside and outside of NASA. I was surprised to learn that there is a large literature of interstellar flight. Nobody knows for sure how to propel a space craft fast enough to make the interstellar crossing within a time scale that would fit the conventional idea of a mission, but there are candidate systems that are under active investigation. Some of this effort begins with small systems that we'll use near the Earth and later hope to extend to deep space missions.
Author | : Robert A. Heinlein |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2007-03-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780765314949 |
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For a telepathic twin on an exploratory space voyage only a few years pass, yet, when he returns to Earth his brother is ready to celebrate his ninetieth birthday.
Author | : Amédée Guillemin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1876 |
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Download The Heavens, Etc. An Entirely New ... Edition (being the Sixth). Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 774 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Science |
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