Astronautics books

The Logic of Microspace is Rick Fleeter's second book on the small, low-cost space programs which are the fastest-growing...  Read More >>

Replacing Mil-Std 1522A, this standard provides requirements for the analysis, design, manufacture, qualification...  Read More >>

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This practical book offers all the information needed to know to get started in the space business. It takes the...  Read More >>

"It was all part of man's greatest adventure--landing men on the Moon and sending a rover to Mars, finally seeing...  Read More >>

The potential threat posed by Leonid meteoroids to orbiting spacecraft calls for new dynamic mitigation strategies....  Read More >>

Explores the motivations, goals, trials, and triumphs of the people who pioneered space exploration from the 16th-century...  Read More >>

This text documents the fundamental theoretical developments in astrodynamics and space navigation that led to Man's...  Read More >>

This International Standard specifies the general characteristics, performance design, test, safety, maintainabilty,...  Read More >>

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This collector's guide brings together the Apollo 10 press kit, pre-launch mission operation report, post-launch...  Read More >>

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In this discussion of superpower competition in space. The Superpower Odyssey ponders how policy-makers and officials...  Read More >>

Construction has begun on the International Space Station (ISS) the largest and most complex extraterrestrial construction...  Read More >>

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Written by a a pilot/engineer participant of NASA's lifting body program, this book documents the adventures, triumphs,...  Read More >>

This collection of essays from the 1998 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Space Technology Conference...  Read More >>

For a half-century, the the United States and the Soviet Union competed for primacy in a global struggle. Space...  Read More >>

Proceedings of ICPMSE-3, Third International Space Conference, held in Toronto, Canada, April 25-26, 1996  Read More >>

Enhanced by more than 175 photographs and drawings, this Dictionary covers the past, the present and the future...  Read More >>

Explores Apollo space program and the technology that was used to land a man on the Moon. This book discusses the...  Read More >>

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The story of Glenn's heroic return to orbit, including his preparation, the shuttle's transmissions from space,...  Read More >>