[PDF] Space The New Frontier eBook

Author : Robert C. Dempsey
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,14 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Government publications
ISBN : 9780160943898

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Looks at the operations of the International Space Station from the perspective of the Houston flight control team, under the leadership of NASA's flight directors, who authored the book. The book provides insight into the vast amount of time and energy that these teams devote to the development, planning and integration of a mission before it is executed. The passion and attention to detail of the flight control team members, who are always ready to step up when things do not go well, is a hallmark of NASA human spaceflight operations. With tremendous support from the ISS program office and engineering community, the flight control team has made the International Space Station and the programs before it a success.

Author : Neil Leach
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 44,51 MB
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1118663306

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Forty years on from the first moon landing, architecture in Space is entering a new era. Over the last decade, there has been a fundamental shift in the Space industry from short-term pioneering expeditions to long-term planning for colonisation, and new ventures such as Space tourism. Architects are now involved in designing the interiors of long-term habitable structures in Space, such as the International Space Station, researching advanced robotic fabrication technologies for building structures on the Moon and Mars, envisioning new 'space yachts' for the super-rich, and building new facilities, such as the Virgin Galactic 'Spaceport America' in New Mexico designed by Foster + Partners. Meanwhile the mystique of Space remains as alluring as ever, as high-profile designers and educators – such as Greg Lynn – are running designs studios drawing upon ever more inventive computational design techniques. This issue of AD features the most significant current projects underway and highlights key areas of research in Space, such as energy, materials, manufacture and robotics. It also looks at how this research and investment in new technologies might transfer to terrestrial design and construction. Space architects: Constance Adams, Marc Cohen, Ondrej Doule, Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger, Scott Howe, Brent Sherwood, Madhu Thangavelu, Andreas Vogler, Robert Zubrin. Architects: Bevk Perovic Arhitekti, Dekleva Gregoric Arhitekti, Foster + Partners, Neil Leach, Greg Lynn, OFIS architects, SADAR + VUGA.

Author : James E. Oberg
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 14,69 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780070480391

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Takes amateur spacefarers on a flight into the future.

Author : Jonathan Strahan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 35,36 MB
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1101513845

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Mars! The Red Planet! For generations, people have wondered what it would be like to travel to and live there. That curiosity has inspired some of the most durable science fiction, including Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and the work of Isaac Asimov. Now the award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan has brought together thirteen original stories to explore the possibilities. After reading Life on Mars, readers will never look at the fourth planet from the sun the same way again.

Author : Giancarlo Genta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,72 MB
Release : 2003-02-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521814034

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What are our motivations for going into space? Where does our long-term space future lie? Why, and how, should we strive to reach, if not for the stars, at least for the Moon and Mars? This exciting book looks first at the progress that has already been made in our attempts to explore and expand beyond the Earth. Current and past space technologies and space stations are described, and the effects of the space environment on the human body are explained. A discussion of the merits of the robotic exploration of space is followed by a look at our exploration of the Moon and Mars. Final chapters touch on propulsion methods required for leaving our solar system, and ask which of the possibilities for future space travel is most likely to succeed. This thought provoking book will appeal to all those with an interest in the future of space exploration.

Author : Betsy Kuhn
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 18,22 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822559846

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The history of space flight for the Americans and the Russians.