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Failure Is Not an Optionby Gene Kranz
Simon & Schuster 2001; US$ 12.99Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. As a flight director in NASA's Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. He participated in the space program from the early days of the Mercury program to the last Apollo mission, and beyond. He endured the disastrous first years when rockets blew up and the United States seemed to fall further behind the Soviet Union in the space race. He helped to launch Alan Shepard and John Glenn, then assumed the flight director's role in the Gemini program, which he guided to fruition. With his teammates, he accepted the challenge to carry out President John F. Kennedy's commitment to land a man on the Moon before... more...
Space Systems Failuresby David M. Harland; Ralph Lorenz
Springer 2005; US$ 44.95Few endeavors are as technologically demanding as the design and operation of rockets and robotic spacecraft. A deep space mission is a lengthy sequence of critical events, all of which must be achieved, either in a straightforward manner or by a work around. For example, the Cassini-Huygens mission must survive in space for seven years, flying a precise course, simply to reach its target, Saturn. It could all too easily suffer an irrecoverable failure at any stage. In fact, throughout the "Space Age" a range of systems failures has frustrated missions. These have included total booster malfunction, by rocket upper stages failing to ignite or misfiring, by being stranded in parking orbit around the Earth, by being sent on the wrong... more...
A First Course in General Relativityby Bernard Schutz
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 60.00Second edition of a widely-used textbook providing the first step into general relativity for undergraduate students with minimal mathematical background. more...
Dark Missionby Richard C. Hoagland; Mike Bara
Feral House 2009; US$ 25.95This New York Times bestseller includes stunning new revelations about the Nazi origins of NASA more...
Particle Dark Matterby Gianfranco Bertone
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 96.00Describes the dark matter problem in particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology for graduate students and researchers. more...
Practical Astronomy with your Calculator or Spreadsheetby Peter Duffett-Smith; Jonathan Zwart
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 32.00The fourth edition of this handbook is ideal for anyone wanting to make astronomical calculations for themselves. more...
Hyperspaceby Michio Kaku; Robert O'Keefe
Oxford University Press, USA 1994; US$ 16.00Are there other dimensions beyond our own? Is time travel possible? Can we change the past? Are there gateways to parallel universes? All of us have pondered such questions, but there was a time when scientists dismissed these notions as outlandish speculations. Not any more. Today, they are the focus of the most intense scientific activity in recent memory. In Hyperspace, Michio Kaku, author of the widely acclaimed Beyond Einstein and a leading theoretical physicist, offers the first book-length tour of the most exciting (and perhaps most bizarre) work in modern physics, work which includes research on the tenth dimension, time warps, black holes, and multiple universes. The theory of hyperspace (or higher dimensional space)--and its newest... more...
The Mammoth Book of Space Exploration and Disasterby Richard Russell Lawrence
Constable & Robinson 2011; US$ 5.82In the words of those who trod the void and those at mission control, here are over 50 of the greatest true stories of suborbital, orbital and deep-space exploration. From Apollo 8's first view of a fractured, tortured landscape of craters on the 'dark side' of the Moon to the series of cliff-hanger crises aboard space station Mir, they include moments of extraordinary heroic achievement as well as episodes of terrible human cost. Among the astronauts and cosmonauts featured are John Glenn, Pavel Beyayev, Jim Lovell, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Valery Korzun, Vasily Tsibliyev and Michael Foale. Includes First walk in space by Sergei Leonov and his traumatic return to Earth Apollo 13's problem -- the... more...
Planetsby William B. Rice
Shell Education 2010; US$ 8.99Earth is a planet, moving around the sun. But Earth is not the only planet! It is one of eight planets, many moons, and other objects that orbit our sun. The planets have much in common, and they have many differences, too. In this book, learn all about the planets. 32 pages more...
The Story of Astronomyby Peter Aughton
Quercus 2011; US$ 14.99The history of astronomy sahoo#150; from Babylonian stargazers to revolutionary attempts to look upon the heart of the universe. more...









