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Lunar Exploration: Human Pioneers and Robotic Surveyors

Lunar Exploration: Human Pioneers and Robotic Surveyors...

Author: Paolo Ulivi ,  David M. Harland
ISBN: 9781852337469
Format: Paperback
$145.07

Paolo Ulivi provides a well-paced, rapidly moving, balanced, even-handed account of lunar exploration as a popular...  Read More >>

Mars: Volume 2 -- The NASA Mission Reports

Mars: Volume 2 -- The NASA Mission Reports

Author: Robert Godwin
ISBN: 9781894959056
Format: Paperback
$76.43

In 1877 the famed Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli used his brand-new 8.6 inch telescope to study the planets....  Read More >>

Disturbing the Solar System: Impacts, Close Encounters, and Coming Attractions

Disturbing the Solar System: Impacts, Close Encounters,...

Author: Alan E. Rubin
ISBN: 9780691117430
Format: Paperback
$67.99

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Stars

Stars

Author: Ian Ridpath ,  Wil Tirion
ISBN: 9780007178582
Format: Paperback
$12.95

A brand-new edition of this bestselling Gem, featuring individual charts for all 88 constellations, a star atlas...  Read More >>

Simple Universe

Simple Universe

Author: Ian Brewster ,  Ken Shiwram
ISBN: 9781894959117
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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Venus in Transit

Venus in Transit

Author: Eli Maor
ISBN: 9780691115894
Format: Paperback
$67.99

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Astronomy of the Milky Way: The Observer’s Guide to the Southern Milky Way

Astronomy of the Milky Way: The Observer’s Guide to...

Author: Mike Inglis
ISBN: 9781852337421
Format: Paperback
$158.27

Deep-sky observing, looking at objects beyond the solar system, is the most popular field for amateur astronomers....  Read More >>

The NexStar User’s Guide

The NexStar User’s Guide

Author: Michael Swanson
ISBN: 9781852337148
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Michael Swanson has written this guide to buying, using and maintaining NexStar telescopes.  Read More >>

Gemini 12: The NASA Mission Reports

Gemini 12: The NASA Mission Reports

Author: Robert Godwin
ISBN: 9781894959049
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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Astronomy of the Milky Way: The Observer's Guide to the Northern Milky Way

Astronomy of the Milky Way: The Observer's Guide to...

Author: Mike Inglis
ISBN: 9781852337094
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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Icy Worlds of the Solar System

Icy Worlds of the Solar System

Author: Pat Dasch
ISBN: 9780521648448
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Discusses the widespread occurrence and significance of ice in our solar system.  Read More >>

Expedition Mars

Expedition Mars

Author: Martin J.L. Turner
ISBN: 9781852337353
Format: Paperback
$158.27

The technical challenges of a human expedition to Mars are the principal theme to be explored by Martin Turner in...  Read More >>

Atlas of Jupiter and its Satellites

Atlas of Jupiter and its Satellites

Author: John R. Spencer ,  Alfred S. McEwen
ISBN: 9780521771634
Format: Hardback
$71.15

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The Cambridge Photographic Star Atlas

The Cambridge Photographic Star Atlas

Author: Eckhard Slawik ,  Uwe Reichert
ISBN: 9780521814041
Format: Hardback
$248.03

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Observing and Measuring Visual Double Stars

Observing and Measuring Visual Double Stars

Author: Bob Argyle
ISBN: 9781852335588
Format: Mixed media product
$68.59

Observing and Measuring Visual Double Stars .  Read More >>

Faster Than The Speed Of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation

Faster Than The Speed Of Light: The Story of a Scientific...

Author: Joao Magueijo ,  Ravi Mirchandani
ISBN: 9780099428084
Format: Paperback
$27.99

The idea that the speed of light is a constant - at 186,000 miles per second - is one of the few scientific facts...  Read More >>

Reinventing NASA: Human Spaceflight, Bureaucracy, and Politics

Reinventing NASA: Human Spaceflight, Bureaucracy, and...

Author: Roger Handberg
ISBN: 9780275970024
Format: Hardback
$140.00

From its beginnings, NASA was convinced that its real mission was to create the opportunity for a much different...  Read More >>

Faster, Better, Cheaper: Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program

Faster, Better, Cheaper: Low-Cost Innovation in the...

Author: Howard E. McCurdy (American University)
ISBN: 9780801877490
Format: Paperback
$75.99

While the technological innovation and space exploration approach that McCurdy describes is still controversial,...  Read More >>

The Universe

The Universe

Author: Richard Osborne
ISBN: 9781904048251
Format: Hardback
$44.75

Where did the Universe come from? This is the single biggest and most difficult question that there is. From early...  Read More >>

Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe

Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe...

Author: Peter D. Ward ,  Donald Brownlee
ISBN: 9780387952895
Format: Paperback
$44.75

What determines whether complex life will arise on a planet, or even any life at all? What conditions are necessary...  Read More >>

A Year of the Stars: A Month-By-Month Journey of Skywatching

A Year of the Stars: A Month-By-Month Journey of Skywatching...

Author: Fred Schaaf
ISBN: 9781591020929
Format: Hardback
$38.99

Intended for the amateur astronomer or anyone curious about our place in the universe, this book takes the reader...  Read More >>

Magnificent Mars

Magnificent Mars

Author: Ken Croswell
ISBN: 9780743226011
Format: Hardback
$158.40

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