Historical geography books

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The purpose of this work is to provide researchers, students, and space enthusiasts with a comprehensive reference...  Read More >>

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Apollo was America's program to land men on the moon and get them safely back to the earth. In May 1961 President...  Read More >>

As the NASA Ames Research Center approached its 70th anniversary in December 2009, there was interest in updating...  Read More >>

Danger, Daring and Discovery - On the 25th of May, 1768, Lieutenant James Cook accepted his commission to sail the...  Read More >>

This detailed and fully-illustrated history of the NASA Ames Research Center describes its organizational structure,...  Read More >>

Most lifting bodies, or flying bathtubs as they were called, were so ugly only an engineer could love them, and...  Read More >>

The course of the Space Age underwent a fundamental shift during the decade of the 1980's. The heady era of Sputnik,...  Read More >>

""Way Station to Space is a history of the NASA John C. Stennis Space Center, one of NASA's 10 Field Centers which...  Read More >>

The purpose of this book is only partly to record the engineering and scientific accomplishments of the men and...  Read More >>

Greenacre on the Piscataqua By Anna J. Ingersoll Excerpt TO the traveler speeding through New England on the...  Read More >>

Ross Cox was a fur trader for the Pacific Fur Company. In 1811 he sailed from New York around the Horn to Hawaii...  Read More >>

The formation of ice on wings and other control surfaces of airplanes is one of the oldest and most vexing problems...  Read More >>

""Science in Flux"" traces the history of one of the most powerful nuclear test reactors in the United States and...  Read More >>

The tale begins in sixteenth-century Venice, when explorer Juan de Fuca encountered English merchant Michael Lok...  Read More >>

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Each time a space vehicle visits another world it runs the risk of forever changing that extraterrestrial environment....  Read More >>

Integrating concepts from philosophical, anthropological, and astrobiological disciplines, Cosmos and Culture begins...  Read More >>

This report consists of inputs from each of the Phase 1 Program Joint Working Groups. Most of the material was written...  Read More >>

This document chronicles dockings, module additions, configuration changes, and major events of Mir Principal Expeditions...  Read More >>

This book is about four remarkable projects, two from NASA and two from the U.S. Air Force, and each is presented...  Read More >>

Human spaceflight is the driver for most activities that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)...  Read More >>

One hundred years of flight is quite a historical achievement. We have progressed from a 57-second flight over the...  Read More >>