Astronautics books

Contains a selection of papers, representing the major fields of interest to world space-operations community, from...  Read More >>

From the first US orbiting satellite, to Neil Armstrong, and Buzz Aldrin's walk on the Moon, almost every achievement...  Read More >>

Traces the program's development from Goddard's early rockets (and the German V-2 missile) through the Titan IVA...  Read More >>

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Michael D'Antonio captures the wackiness of the first year of the space race as the...  Read More >>

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Michael D'Antonio captures the wackiness of the first year of the space race as the...  Read More >>

The first book to capture both the Soviet and American sides of the event that started the space race and changed...  Read More >>

The first book to capture both the Soviet and American sides of the event that started the space race and changed...  Read More >>

The first book to capture both the Soviet and American sides of the event that started the space race and changed...  Read More >>

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Read the stories behind some of the most exciting discoveries and breakthroughs people have made in their hunt for...  Read More >>

The Soviet Union achieved all the great firsts in cosmonautics—the first satellite in orbit, the first animal in...  Read More >>

Modern aerospace vehicles, such as the space shuttle, other launch vehicles, and long-range ballistic missiles,...  Read More >>

Tells the intimate stories of the men and women, American and Russian, who made the space race their own and gave...  Read More >>

But these were more than exercises in ‘flags and footprints’, because the missions involved the crews making geological...  Read More >>

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Reveals how NASA cashed in on the Americans' thirst for heroes in an age of discontent and became obsessed with...  Read More >>

Offers a comprehensive treatment of hybrid rockets. Each chapter of this book provides an account of various aspects...  Read More >>

What is it like to fly the space shuttle and work on and in the International Space Station? Veteran NASA astronaut...  Read More >>

Illustrated with photographs from Soviet Venus and Mars probes, images of spacecraft, diagrams of flight paths and...  Read More >>

"Focuses on the text of President Ronald Reagan's speech. The author shows how President Reagan's reputation as...  Read More >>

Modern Earth-orbiting satellites are sophisticated machines that have transformed all aspects of human civilization....  Read More >>

Examines the important roles that astronomical instruments play above the Earth's atmosphere. This volume also describes...  Read More >>

Examines the evolution of these far-traveling spacecraft - from the relatively unsophisticated planetary probes...  Read More >>

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