This publication contains 36 papers presented at four symposia during the 31st COSPAR Scientific Assembly held in Birmingham, UK during 1996.
Women Astronauts is a fun, inspirational book for girls, young women and anyone interested in space exploration and what it's like to be an astronaut. It contains biographies and color photos of all of the living women astronauts from around the world. Includes bonus CD-ROM.
Provides key space technology and engineering information from civil space organizations, commercial and defense industries. This title features technical specifications of orbital and suborbital space launch vehicles, satellites and spacecraft, worldwide launch facilities and spaceports.
Provides key space technology and engineering information from civil space organisations, commercial and defence industries. This title includes technical specifications of orbital and suborbital space launch vehicles, satellites and spacecraft, and, worldwide launch facilities and spaceports.
Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) final report, August 2003 - The Gehman Board Report to NASA on the Space Shuttle Programme.
Readers will gain the most comprehensive view available on what President Bush's new space vision will do for human exploration of the Solar System-and how nearly everything NASA does will change as a result.
The development of the space industry in the Asian and Pacific Rim region provides the context for this book. There is a general introductory chapter which places the space programmes of the region in the comparative context of the other space-faring nations of the world.
Taken directly from the NASA archives, this work presents the details of the Mercury-Atlas 8 mission, the overall Project Mercury game plan, and the people who made the mission a complete success.
'Trivia' spans the period from the Mercury project of the early 1960s right up to the current Shuttle/Space Station era. Curious and surprising, obvious and obscure facts provide the basis for Space Trivia. Have fun with this book of 800 questions and answers.
The highly detailed graphic images of the Apollo Lunar Module (LM) leap from the page and pull the reader in to another world in another time. The LM proved to be a milestone in human innovation and engineering excellence.
A comprehensive and easy-to-use reference tool for anyone interested in space activity.
Weltraumantriebe sind der Schlussel zur Raumfahrt! Sie bestimmen die Reisezeit zu fernen Planeten und sind naturlich ein wesentlicher Kostentreiber fur jede Weltraummission.