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The International Space Station: Building for the Future (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

  • ISBN13: 9780387781440
  • Condition: New
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This book will cover in great detail the newest construction and uses of the International Space Station. The new volume will continue on from the end of Creating the International Space Station by David Harland and John Catchpole (published in January 2002 by Springer Praxis), providing flight by flight details and relevant political and “behind the scenes” activities as are necessary to explain why certain decisions, including flight re-scheduling and crew-reassignment, are made. Part 1 wi

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Robotic Exploration of the Solar System: Part 2: Hiatus and Renewal, 1983-1996 (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)

Saturday, June 25th, 2011

  • ISBN13: 9780387789040
  • Condition: USED – Like New
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Paolo Ulivi and David Harland provide in “Robotic Exploration of the Solar System” a detailed history of unmanned missions of exploration of our Solar System As in their previous book Lunar Exploration, the subject will be treated wherever possible from an engineering and scientific standpoint. Technical descriptions of the spacecraft, of their mission designs and of instrumentations will be provided. Scientific results will be discussed in considerable depth, together with details of mission ma

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Russian Spacecraft Pocket Space Guide (Pocket Space Guides)

Friday, June 17th, 2011

Complete with photographs and drawings from Russia’s Rocket & Space Corporation Energia, this Pocket Space Guide, #8 in the series, is a condensed history of the Russian Space Program from 1946 to the present day. Fifteen years after the founding of the program, in April 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to fly in space, and the race was on. Fabulous spacecraft photos and facts illustrate and authenticate this authoritative history.

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Trailblazing Medicine: Sustaining Explorers During Interplanetary Missions (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)

Saturday, June 11th, 2011

Space medicine has been an important component of the success of human spaceflight and will continue to play a critical role in the future ventures. To prepare for the day when astronauts will leave low Earth orbit for long-duration exploration missions, space medicine experts must develop a thorough understanding of the effects of microgravity on the human body, as well as ways of migrating these effects. To gain a complete understanding of the effects of space on the human body and to create t

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The Pre-Astronauts: Manned Ballooning on the Threshold of Space (Bluejacket Paperback Series)

Friday, June 10th, 2011

  • ISBN13: 9781591147480
  • Condition: New
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In the 1950s and early 1960s a small fraternity of daring, brilliant men made the first exploratory trips into the upper stratosphere, reaching the edge of outer space in tiny capsules suspended beneath plastic balloons. This book tells the story of these tenacious men as they labored on the cusp of a new age, seeing things that no one had ever seen and experiencing conditions no one was sure they could survive.Mostly U.S. Air Force and Navy officers, among them doctors, physicists, meteorologis

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