Astronautics books

This introduction to the principles of unsteady aerodynamics covers all the core concepts, provides readers with...  Read More >>

Cooperation of multiple space assets is an increasingly interesting topic for the space agencies. This book reviews...  Read More >>

One of the greatest scientific and technological achievements of the 21st century will be to cast a light on the...  Read More >>

The inner magnetosphere plasma is a very unique composition of different plasma particles and waves. In such a situation,...  Read More >>

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This updated and widely extended second edition offers a comprehensive and coherent account of astromineralogy....  Read More >>

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) was successfully launched on June 18, 2009 and joined an international eet...  Read More >>

This is the first-ever publication detailing the Navy's role in manned spacecraft recovery from 1961 to 1975, from...  Read More >>

The extraterrestrial environment is the most hostile for the life of human beings. Spacecrafts are masterpiece of...  Read More >>

Beamed Energy Propulsion is the science of propelling objects in space using high power laser or microwave beams....  Read More >>

The purpose and motivation of these lectures can be summarized in the following two questions: • What is the ground...  Read More >>

Walking in the black void of space, staring at the blue-white planet Earth two hundred and fifty miles below, would...  Read More >>

Foothold in the Heavens, the second volume in the A History of Human Space Exploration series, focuses upon the...  Read More >>

In response to requests from Congress, NASA asked the National Research Council to undertake a decadal survey of...  Read More >>

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This volume contains results gained from the EU-funded 6th Framework project ADIGMA (Adaptive Higher-order Variational...  Read More >>

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This unique lexicon features over 3,500 astronautical terms, listed alphabetically in English, with their Irish...  Read More >>

The articles in this volume cover, for the first time, all aspects of planetary magnetism, from the observations...  Read More >>

A space tether is a long cable used to couple satellites, probes or spacecrafts to each other or to other masses,...  Read More >>

One of these was discovered because of the daily solar variation of CR, which the maximum number of CR observed...  Read More >>

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Computational Space Flight Mechanics presents numerical solutions for topics and problems within space flight mechanics....  Read More >>

The Smell of Kerosene tells the dramatic story of a NASA research pilot who logged over 11,000 flight hours in more...  Read More >>

Remote Sensing from a New Perspective The idea for this book began many years ago, when I was asked to teach a course...  Read More >>