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This book introduces the world of antimatter without using technical language or equations. The author shows how the quest for symmetry in physics slowly revealed the properties of antimatter. When large particle accelerators came on line, the…

On July 20, 1969, US astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. The Apollo 11 mission that carried him and his two fellow astronauts on their epic journey marked the successful culmination of a quest that, ironically, had…

In planning this photo history we set out to record the story of Apollo before the colors fade and memories blur. At first we aimed to restrict ourselves to the actual expeditions to the Moon. But it soon became clear that this approach could not…

This special edition of Apollo in Perspective marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969. Updated and revised throughout, it takes a retrospective look at the Apollo space program and the technology that was used to land a man…

This book describes the history of this now iconic room which represents America’s space program during the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz and early Space Shuttle eras. It is now a National Historic Landmark and is being restored to a level…

'Apollo VII - XVII: A collection of photographs taken by NASA's Apollo program astronauts 1968 - 1972' is een recentelijk verschenen fotografie boek dat terugkijkt op de iconische en niet eerder verschenen foto's van de Apollo astronauten, gemaakt…

G.H. Hardy werd door zijn tijdgenoten geprezen als ‘een echte wiskundige, de zuiverste in zijn soort’. Deze ‘apologie’, die Hardy schreef toen zijn wiskundig talent tanende was, is een aangrijpend verhaal over de schoonheid en het nut van de wiskunde…