Space science books

Dynamic power conversion technologies, such as closed Brayton and free-piston Stirling, offer many advantages for...  Read More >>

The first air launch attempt of an X-43A stack, consisting of the booster, adapter and Hyper-X research vehicle,...  Read More >>

The Materials International Space Station Experiment provided a means to expose materials and devices to the low...  Read More >>

Far-field noise sound power level (PWL) spectra and overall sound pressure level (OASPL) directivities were compared...  Read More >>

A procedure for generating smooth uniformly clustered single-zone grids using enhanced elliptic grid generation...  Read More >>

Apollo missions utilized Earth-based assets for navigation because the landings took place at lunar locations in...  Read More >>

Worldwide, aviation alone uses 85 to 95 billion gallons of nonrenewable fossil fuel per year (2008). General transportation...  Read More >>

A systematic approach for selecting an optimal suite of sensors for on-board aircraft gas turbine engine health...  Read More >>

In support of the Fundamental Aeronautics Program, Subsonic Rotary Wing Project; an engine system study has been...  Read More >>

This paper presents an algorithm that automatically identifies and extracts steady-state engine operating points...  Read More >>

The NASA Glenn Research Center is developing advanced passive thermal management technology to reduce the mass and...  Read More >>

A series of bench top experiments was conducted to determine the effects of metallic debris being dragged through...  Read More >>

The dynamics of a sandwich beam with carbon fiber composite facesheets and foam core with periodic variations in...  Read More >>

The NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) has developed and tested a prototype 2 kW DC grid-tied photovoltaic (PV) power...  Read More >>

A new composite, multi-constituent, solid lubricant coating, NASA PS400, developed for high temperature tribological...  Read More >>

Two finite element based computational methods, Smoothing Element Analysis (SEA) and the inverse Finite Element...  Read More >>

During the Apollo program the effects of lunar dust on thermal control surfaces was found to be more significant...  Read More >>

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is developing battery and fuel cell technology to meet the expected...  Read More >>

The lattice and radiation conductivity of ZrO2-Y2O3 thermal barrier coatings was evaluated using a laser heat flux...  Read More >>

A methodology to compute probabilistically-combined thermo-mechanical fatigue life of polymer matrix laminated composites...  Read More >>

System identification is utilized in the aerospace community for development of simulation models for robust control...  Read More >>

Over the past several years the term oil-free turbomachinery has been used to describe a rotor support system for...  Read More >>

Second mode disturbances dominate the primary instability stage of transition in a number of hypersonic flow configurations....  Read More >>

Power is a critical consideration in planning exploration of the surfaces of the Moon, Mars, and places beyond....  Read More >>

Nanopowders of La(0.6)Sr(0.4)CoO(3-x) (LSC) and Sm(0.5)Sr(0.5)CoO(3-x) (SSC) compositions, which are being investigated...  Read More >>