Book Description
Chronicles humankind's quest into space, from the development of rockets to the Apollo moon landing.
Author : Ray Spangenburg
Publisher :
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 15,89 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780816018482
Chronicles humankind's quest into space, from the development of rockets to the Apollo moon landing.
Author : John Hickman
Publisher : Common Ground Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 32,94 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781863358002
Reopening the Space Frontier escapes the usual arc of space policy analysis focused on technological choice and instead explains the international legal and political economic barriers to the renewed exploration, development and settlement of celestial bodies like the Moon and Mars. The science and engineering of the mid-twentieth century were sufficient for human landings on the Moon. Yet today the human adventure in space is limited to visits by small numbers of astronauts to a single space station in Earth orbit. As the author explains, using the institutions that opened terrestrial geographic frontiers in the past provides the effective means for reopening the space frontier. Along the way he demolishes the wishful thinking that has shackled popular thinking about space policy. International competition rather than international cooperation motivated states to open terrestrial frontiers for centuries, and that motivation will have to be harnessed again for our species to permanently occupy other worlds of the solar system.
Author : United States. National Commission on Space
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,36 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Science
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Author : Eagle Sarmont
Publisher :
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 2016-08-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780692760024
"Opening the High Frontier" is about how to make spaceflight affordable to everyone.
Author : John M. Logsdon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 24,96 MB
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 3319989626
When Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980, limits on NASA funding and the lack of direction under the Nixon and Carter administrations had left the U.S. space program at a crossroads. In contrast to his predecessors, Reagan saw outer space as humanity’s final frontier and as an opportunity for global leadership. His optimism and belief in American exceptionalism guided a decade of U.S. activities in space, including bringing the space shuttle into operation, dealing with the 1986 Challenger accident and its aftermath, committing to a permanently crewed space station, encouraging private sector space efforts, and fostering international space partnerships with both U.S. allies and with the Soviet Union. Drawing from a trove of declassified primary source materials and oral history interviews, John M. Logsdon provides the first comprehensive account of Reagan’s civilian and commercial space policies during his eight years in the White House. Even as a fiscal conservative who was hesitant to increase NASA’s budget, Reagan’s enthusiasm for the space program made him perhaps the most pro-space president in American history.
Author : WERNHER DR. VON BRAUN
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,27 MB
Release : 1963
Category :
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Author : Wernher Von Braun
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Technology & Engineering
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Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 33,61 MB
Release : 2008-08-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309118891
The New Frontiers Program was created by NASA in 2002 at the recommendation of the NRC's decadal survey for solar system research. In order to optimize solar system research, the NRC recommended a series of principal-investigator missions that encourage innovation and accomplish the main scientific objectives presented in the survey. Two of the five recommended missions have been selected and, as was also recommended in the survey, the NRC was asked in 2007 to provide criteria and guiding principles to NASA for determining the list of candidate missions. This book presents a review of eight missions: the three remaining from the original list of five from the survey plus five missions considered by the survey committee but which were not recommended. Included in the review of each mission is a discussion of relevant science and technology developments since the survey and set of recommended science goals.
Author : Marianne J. Dyson
Publisher : National Geographic Children's Books
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 32,75 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
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Author : Mohamed S. El-Genk
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 30,6 MB
Release : 1997
Category :
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