..".I enjoyed the historical descriptions of the contributions of the early rocket pioneers Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert Goddard, and Wernher von Braun, as well as the American and Russian manned programs...The book is aimed at the science-literate public, although the material varies in level of detail." (George D. Nelson, PHYSICS TODAY, June 2005)
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..".I enjoyed the historical descriptions of the contributions of the early rocket pioneers Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Rober...
This is the comprehensive story of NASA’s pioneering Mars 2020 mission, which at this moment continues to break ground on the surface of the Red Planet.
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Mars 2020 is the first to actually take samples of the Red Planet and prepare them for subsequent return to Earth. The...
This is the comprehensive story of NASA’s pioneering Mars 2020 mission, which at this moment continues to break ground on the surface of the Red Pla...
Learn about commercial spaceflight’s most successful startup in this fully updated book, which follows the extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement that have placed SpaceX at the forefront of the launch industry and positioned it as the most likely candidate for transporting humans to Mars.
This second edition emphasizes SpaceX's much-hyped manned mission to the Red Planet. With a plethora of new material gathered from 2013 to the present, the text offers the most up-to-date portrait of the maverick band of scientists and engineers producing some of the most...
Learn about commercial spaceflight’s most successful startup in this fully updated book, which follows the extraordinary feats of engineering and...
This is the story of humankind’s quest over centuries to learn the true nature of the most dominant object in our Solar System: the Sun.
Award-winning science writer Peter Bond describes in detail how our ideas about the Sun have changed over the millennia, starting with the simple observations of classical astronomy and continuing through telescopic observations to the age of nuclear physics. He shows how we discovered the Sun’s basic characteristics – its distance, size, temperature and composition – and then describes how, with evermore sophisticated instruments, we have...
This is the story of humankind’s quest over centuries to learn the true nature of the most dominant object in our Solar System: the Sun.
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The book is divided into three key sections. It begins with Entering the Golden Age of...
Humanity has entered a new age of space exploration. By the end of this decade, astronauts will be back on the Moon, and several projects are alrea...
