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Janes’s Space Recognition Guide

Jane’s Space Recognition Guide is the essential, most comprehensive guide to spacecraft and space exploration. It includes: Civilian and military spacecraft Shuttles and satellites Space agencies,...

How to survive in spaceТом 2

As part of our celebrations for the 50th anniversary of ESA’s mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany, we are pleased to make available the delightful ESOC history, How to Survive in Space, as a...

It’s ONLY Rocket Science: An Introduction in Plain English

«Well, it’s not rocket science, is it?» How many times have you heard people use that expression when they mean something pretty simple? There are other areas of science and technology that are...

How to survive in spaceТом 1

As part of our celebrations for the 50th anniversary of ESA’s mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany, we are pleased to make available the delightful ESOC history, How to Survive in Space, as a...

Historical Analogs for the Stimulation of Space Commerce

With the rise of a range of private-sector entrepreneurial firms interested in pursuing space commerce, the process whereby their efforts might be incubated, fostered, and expanded comes to the fore as an...

Historical Studies in the Societal Impact of Spaceflight

This volume presents a series of in-depth studies on the mutual interaction of space exploration and society—part of a larger need to understand the relationships between science, technology, and society....

Global Reach: A View of NASA’s International Cooperation

When the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was created in 1958, its founding legislation—the National Aeronautics and Space Act—directed the new Agency to pursue cooperation “with...

Flight research : problems encountered and what they should teach US

The document by Milt Thompson that is reproduced here was an untitled rough draft found in Thompson’s papers in the Dryden Historical Reference Collection. Internal evidence suggests that it was written...

F. A. Tsander and Modern Cosmonautics

Flying the Frontiers of Space

A history of American experimental aircraft and space vehicles from 1947 to the present.

Facing the Heat Barrier: A History of Hypersonics

Hypersonics is the study of flight at speeds where aerodynamic heating dominates the physics of the problem. Typically this is Mach 5 and higher. Hypersonics is an engineering science with close links to...

Essays on the History of Rocketry and Astronautics

Exploring Space

Throughout history, people have tried to understand Earth’s place in the universe and what else, if anything, is ‘out there’. This common human curiosity has led to great discoveries, from...

Escaping the Bonds of Earth: The Fifties and the Sixties

To commemorate the momentous 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering journey into space on 12th April 2011, a series of five books — to be published annually — will explore this half...

El Futuro de la Exploración del Espacio

Entwicklung des Raketenbaus und der Raumfahrt in der UdSSR

Economic Development of Low Earth Orbit book cover

This collection of papers identifies a number of important policy questions that will be of rising importance as NASA transitions human spaceflight in LEO to the private sector, as well as a number of economic...

Ein Pionier des Raketenantriebs berichtet

Earth

From the Foreword by Michael Carlowicz: From its origins, NASA has studied our planet in novel ways, using ingenious tools to study physical processes at work—from beneath the crust to the edge of the...

Defining NASA The Historical Debate Over The Agency’s Mission

Описание: Most people know that NASA is the agency of the United States that pursues space activities. Though sounding simple enough, this statement can lead to pitfalls just like in moving mountains....

Crossbow and Overcast

Двадцать лет прошло со времён «Дня Д», эта книга об истории двух из самых важных секретных операций II мировой...

Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. First Man in Space

Первая книга выпущенная на Западе о Юрии Гагарине. В иллюстрациях — мифонавты, в тексте ошибки. Panther Books proudly present...

Coming Home: Reentry and Recovery from Space

The technologies for the reentry and recovery from space might change over time, but the challenge remains one of the most important and vexing in the rigorous efforts to bring spacecraft and their crews and...

Cave of the Winds

The huge Langley Full-Scale Tunnel building dominated the skyline of Langley Air Force Base for 81 years (1930–2011). The Full-Scale Tunnel was constructed by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics...

Book of Flight: The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

The dream of flight is one of the oldest in human history. We read about it in ancient Greek mythology and visualize it through Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches of flying machines. The Book of Flight traces...

Building Hitler’s Missiles

Boeing. The complete story / Боинг. История компании.

Today, Boeing is the premier aircraft builder in the US and one of the biggest aerospace constructors in the world. To the public Boeing is inextricably linked with some of the greatest names in aircraft...

Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Preliminary Science Report

NASA TM X-58173/International cooperation was the keynote of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. In the 3 y ears since the project was initiated in the U.S. — U .S .S .R. Agreement Concerning Cooperation in...

Animals in Space_From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle

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Apollo 1 and the Space Shuttle Challenger:The History of NASA’s Two Most Notorious Disasters

Apollo in PerspectiveSpaceflight Then and Now

This book takes a retrospective look at the Apollo space program and the technology that was used to land a man on the Moon. Jonathan Allday’s aims are to explain the basic physics and technology of...

Air Force Space Command — 50 Years of Space & Missles

All About History: History of NASA 2nd Edition

America’s First Rocket Company: Reaction Motors, Inc.

America’s First Rocket Company is the story of Reaction Motors, Inc. (RMI), the U.S.’s first liquid-propellant rocket company. Founded in December, 1941 following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, with...

American X-Vehicles An_ Inventory X-1 to X-50

After Sputnik50 Years of the Space Age

A-1: The First French Satellite

«26 ноября 1965 года с момента полета первой французской РН «Диамант» Франция стала — после СССР и США —...

Экспериментальная космическая станция на орбите

Человек на космической орбите

Дано описание снаряжения и аварийно-спасательных средств, применяемых человеком при полетах на различных...

Четверо на орбите специальный выпуск

УЧЕНЫМ И КОНСТРУКТОРАМ, ИНЖЕНЕРАМ, ТЕХНИКАМИ РАБОЧИМ, ВСЕМ КОЛЛЕКТИВАМ И ОРГАНИЗАЦИЯМ, УЧАСТВОВАВШИМ В...

Человек в длительном космическом полете

В книге изложены результаты исследований, проведенных тетом по научным вопросам» связанным с освоением...

Человек в условиях высотного и космического полета Сборник

Человек вышел в космическое пространство

Українські дослідження на орбітальних космічних комплексах

Финиш космического марафонаСпециальный выпуск

Пилотируемые экспедициии на станцию «Салют-6»

Удивительная Земля

Более 100 прекрасных фотографий планеты Земля: захватывающие дух снимки ночных городов, великолепные фотографии...

Стойкость. Мой год в космосе

Американский астронавт Скотт Келли совершил четыре полета в космос, дважды был членом многодневной американской...

Станция «МИР»: от триумфа до …

Посвящается «пахарям» космодрома Байконур и покорителям Вселенной, которые более пятнадцати лет осуществляли...

СТАТЬ КОСМОНАВТОМ! Субъективная история с обратной связью 2011 г.

Книга посвящена самобытной российской школе подготовки космонавтов, тем, кто готовится к полетам в космос, и их...