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Space Primer ( AU-18)
In what may be the best single-volume introduction to military and civilian space flight, this up-to-date space primer from the Department of Defense provides comprehensive coverage of modern spaceflight principles and practices, with an extensive…
Space Shuttle
Traces the beginnings and developments of the shuttle, shuttle astronauts, in-orbit operations, and speculations on goals for tomorrow (boek gepubliceerd in 1985)
Space Shuttle Columbia: Her Missions and Crews (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)
On February 1st 2003, one of the worst and most public disasters ever witnessed in the human space programme unfolded with horrifying suddenness in the skies above north central Texas. The Space Shuttle Columbia – the world’s first truly reusable…
Space shuttle ruimtevaart
Een aflevering van Ruimtevaart (30ste jaargang) uitgegeven door de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Ruimtevaart. In een tiental hoofdstukken wordt telkens een specialist aan het woord gelaten om een aspect van de shuttle te belichten. Komen o.a. aan bod:…
Space Systems Failures: Disasters and Rescues of Satellites, Rockets and Space Probes
In the 1960s and 1970s deep space missions were dispatched in pairs in case one was lost in launch or failed during its journey. Following the triumphs of the Viking landings on Mars in 1976 and both Voyagers spacecraft successfully surveying the…
Space walks
Geïllustreerd met enkele adembenemende NASA foto‘s belicht het boek een rijdspanne van ~20 jaar waarin de ultieme menselijk droom een ruimtewandeling was. Uiteindelijk culmineerde die in een maanwandeling – met kangoeroesprongen.
Na een tiental…
Stepping stones to the stars
Beginning with a short history of the evolution of the rocket, this story of manned spaceflight moves on to the first manned rocket flights by both the Americans and the Russians. It also includes the little-known story of what is thought to be the…
The Cambridge Dictionary of Space Technology
Mark Williamson's The Cambridge Dictionary of Space Technology is an essential, indispensable, core addition to school, community, and professional reference libraries.... [It] is a seminal, basic, exhaustive, very highly recommended reference." The…
The Mercury 13
Profiles the thirteen extraordinary women, all pilots who passed the same battery of tests as the Mercury 7 astronauts, who were chosen as America's first female astronauts but who were refused the opportunity to participate, in a fascinating study…