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Portrayed by Klerkx (a former senior manager of the SETI Institute) as a "hydra-headed agency" with many masters, bureaucratically hidebound...

Focusing on the Galileo Mission, the story will relate this remarkable spacecraft's protracted gestation and the ordeal of its long haul out...

This work was originally published in German in 1998, by Birkhuser Verlag, Switzerland. Fischer (a columnist for the German astronomy journa...

The Gemini 7 spacecraft's then-new record for a long duration manned space flight, 330 hours and 35 minutes, is chronicled in this volume. ...

During the late 1960s, while M.G. Lord was becoming a teenager in Southern California and her mother was dying of cancer, Lord's father disa...

This book offers an informed and revealing account of NASA's involvement in the scientific understanding of the Earth's atmosphere. Since th...

Aircraft Propulsion is an engineering textbook written for students in aerospace and mechanical engineering. The book covers aircraft gas tu...

Recent discoveries in cosmology have led to a bizarre new worldview that (to paraphrase Niels Bohr) may be crazy enough to be true. Just con...

The stars have always called us, but only for the past forty years or so have we been able to respond by traveling in space. This book explo...

This collection of speeches by Dr. Wernher von Braun—a passionate crusader for worthy causes—touches on a variety of topics, inc...

Butterworth-Heinemann's Aircraft Engineering Principles and Practice Series provides students, apprentices and practicing aerospace professi...