Product Description: Culled from the legendary NASA archive, awe-inspiring images of deep space are on display in this set of flash cards featuring all eight planets, spacecraft, nebulae, and more. The sturdy cards are perfect for small hands and ideal for decorating a room or desk with the many wonders of space...read more

Product Description: Created as an aid for the astronauts training for Skylab missions, this Skylab Saturn IB Flight Manual is a comprehensive reference that contains descriptions of ground support interfaces, prelaunch operations, and emergency procedures...read more

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Product Description: This Saturn IB Flight Manual provides launch vehicle systems descriptions and predicted performance data for the Skylab missions. Vehicle SL·2 (SA-206) is the baseline for this manual; but, as a result of the sreat similarity. the material is representative of SL-3 and SL4 launch vctlicles, also...read more

Product Description: On October 4, 1957 at 10:28 Moscow time, a rocket carrying the world's first orbiting satellite roared into space, signaling a new era in human history and the beginning of the so-called "space race" - an epic rivalry pitting the technological know-how of the Soviet Union against that of the United States...read more

Product Description: This is a FULL-COLOR (other variations are in grayscale) reproduction of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Systems Engineering Handbook (NASA/SP-2007-6105 Rev1).This handbook consists of six core chapters: (1) systems engineering fundamentals discussion, (2) the NASA program/project life cycles, (3) systems engineering processes to get from a concept to a design, (4) systems engineering processes to get from a design to a final product, (5) crosscutting management processes in systems engineering, and (6) special topics relative to systems engineering...read more

Product Description: What is a space elevator? A space elevator is a physical connection from the surface of the Earth to a geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) above the Earth .35,786 km in altitude. Its center of mass is at the geostationary point such that it has a 24-hr orbit and stays over the same point above the equator as the Earth rotates on its axis...read more

Product Description: Within a short time of the first flight of the Wright brothers in 1903, the United States government recognized the importance of fostering development in the new and critical field of aeronautics. NASA's predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), was chartered by Congress in 1915 specifically "to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution...read more

Product Description: Aerodynamic theory was not prepared to offer assistance in the early development of the airplane. The scientific community, most qualified for action at the forefront of human endeavor, often turns out in practice to be surprisingly conservative...read more

Product Description: CONTENTS Summary Introduction Logic and Reasoning Sets Logical Sentences and Truth Sets Numbers Primes and Factors Intervals of the Real Line Relations Equivalence Ordering Mapping Transformations Functions Sequences Curves, Surfaces, and Regions Mathematical Spaces Abstract Algebra Appendixes A...read more

Product Description: CONTENTS LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS PROLOGUE I. TOWARD THE ORIGINS OF LIFE A Definition of Life? Life on a Tape The Localization of Order The Chemistry of Life: Why Carbon? What Else? Water Suggestions for Further Reading II. THE ORIGINS OF LIFE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SEARCH The Early Questioners The Evolutionary Synthesis The Experimental Era: Origins Enter the Laboratory The Space Age Suggestions for Further Reading III...read more

Product Description: For a while, it seemed the series of experimental aircraft sponsored by the U.S. government had run its course. Between the late 1940s and the late 1970s, almost thirty designations had been allocated to aircraft meant to explore new flight regimes or untried technologies...read more

Product Description: CONTENTS PREFACE LIST OF PARTICIPANTS RESEARCH NEEDS FOR REGENERATIVE LIFE-SUPPORT SYSTEMS 1. Systems Engineering Overview for Regenerative Life-Support Systems Applicable to Space Habitats Jack Spurlock and Michael Modell 2. Research Planning Criteria for Regenerative Life-Support Systems Applicable to Space Habitats Jack Spurlock, William Cooper, Paul Deal, Annita Harlan, Marcus Karel, Michael Modell, Paul Moe, John Phillips, David Putnam, Philip Quattrone, C...read more

Product Description: Foundations of Space Biology and Medicine is a collective scientific work which reviews the most important problems, achievements, and prospects for the development of space biology and medicine. Its purpose is to make available summarized and systematized data on the most important problems of space biology and medicine...read more

Product Description: Foundations of Space Biology and Medicine is a collective scientific work which reviews the most important problems, achievements, and prospects for the development of space biology and medicine. Its purpose is to make available summarized and systematized data on the most important problems of space biology and medicine...read more

Product Description: CONTENTS Foreword Introduction to Solar Physics Internal Rotation of the Sun A History of Solar Rotation Dynamics of the Outer Solar Atmosphere The Interplanetary Plasma Lower Atmospheres of the Planets The Composition of Planetary Atmospheres Interior Structure of Giant Planets Radar and Radio Exploration of the Planets Nature and Interpretation of the Apollo 11 Lunar Samples Origin of the Solar System Evolution of Planetary Atmospheres History of the Lunar Orbi...read more

Product Description: When Francis Bacon wrote the New Atlantis in the early 17th century, he envisioned a state-supported research institution in which knowledge could be applied to 'enlarge the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible...read more