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  • Energiya-Buranby Bart Hendrickx; Bert Vis

    Springer 2007; US$ 84.99

    Describes the development of the Soviet space shuttle system, its infrastructure and the space agency's plans to follow up the first historic unmanned mission. This book includes comparisons with the American shuttle system and offers details of the talented Soviet test pilots chosen to train to fly the system. more...

  • Making Beautiful Deep-sky Imagesby Greg Parker

    Springer 2007; US$ 27.99

    This book is based around the author??'s beautiful and sometimes awe-inspiring color images and mosaics of deep-sky objects. The images were used as the basis of a public exhibition held at the University of Southampton (Summer 2006), attended by the press, local radio and TV interviewers as well as the public. The book describes how similar images... more...

  • The Story of the MIR Space Stationby David Harland

    Springer 2007; US$ 41.99

    Space buffs know that the Soviet-era Russian spacecraft were the workhorses of the early space age and where men first learned to endure long-term spaceflight, The Mir space station has unquestionably been one of the most significant contributions to the Soviet/Russian space program. The experience of long-duration human space flight gained from its... more...

  • The First Men on the Moonby David Harland

    Springer 2007; US$ 35.99

    This book tells the story of Apollo 11 and dispels the myth that NASA faked the moon landings. The story is brought to life by exploiting the flight plan, mission report, in-flight transcripts (including conversations among the crew in the spacecraft that were not transmitted) and post-flight debriefing. It features scans recently produced by NASA... more...

  • Ice, Rock, and Beautyby David Brodie

    Springer 2008; US$ 39.95

    Imaging techniques from Earth continue to improve, while missions such as Voyager, Galileo and the Hubble Space Telescope have yielded many excellent images. This book collects some 72 main images, showing objects heretofore little seen, to tell a story of the Solar System. more...

  • Robotic Exploration of the Solar Systemby Paolo Ulivi; David M. Harland

    Springer 2007; US$ 31.99

    Presents the history of unmanned missions exploring our Solar System. This book provides technical descriptions of the spacecraft, of their mission designs and of instrumentations. It discusses scientific results, together with details of mission management. more...

  • Strategies of Life Detectionby O. Botta; J.L. Bada; J. Gomez-Elvira; E. Javaux; F. Selsis; R. Summons

    Springer 2008; US$ 159.99

    The search for life outside the Earth has been one of the biggest quests of mankind. We have reached a level in technology that allows the first steps towards a scientific investigation. The aim of this workshop was to take an interdisciplinary look at the signatures that would be indicative for past or present life on another planet, to compare them... more...

  • The Search for Life Continuedby Barrie William Jones

    Springer 2008; US$ 23.99

    Examines, scientifically, the methods for detecting planets around other stars, the possibility that they might support life, and speculates as to what aliens might look like. more...

  • Imaging planetario:: Guida all'uso della webcam (Le Stelle) (Italian Edition)by Martin Mobberley; A. Carbognani

    Springer 2007; US$ 31.99

    Le economiche webcam stanno rivoluzionando l?imaging astronomico amatoriale, fornendo un?alternativa conveniente ai CCD raffreddati, quanto meno per i soggetti pił luminosi. Le webcam, che costano solo poche decine di euro, sono in grado di realizzare riprese di pił alta risoluzione rispetto alle macchine fotografiche digitali grazie alla maggiore... more...

  • Sunspots and Starspotsby John H. Thomas; Nigel O. Weiss

    Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 64.00

    Comprehensive account of sunspots and starspots for graduate students, astronomers, geophysicists, space physicists and experts in solar and stellar physics. more...