Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 5 November 2010
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A Columbus of Space
In this classic space travel novel from 1909, author Garrett P. Serviss not only provides the reader with an exhilirating adventure, but also one of the first atomic-powered spacecraft in fiction.
Deep Space Craft: An Overview of Interplanetary FlightDeep Space Craft opens the door to interplanetary flight. It looks at this world from the vantage point of real operations on a specific mission, and follows a natural trail from the day-to-day working of this particular spacecraft, through the functioning of all spacecraft to the collaboration of the various disciplines to produce the results for which a spacecraft is designed. These results are of course mostly of a scientific nature, although a small number of interplanetary missions are also flown primarily...
Added by: miaow | Karma: 8463.40 | Fiction literature | 25 February 2010
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Night's Dawn 0 - The Confederation Handbook
This handbook comprises background information on all three volumes of the author's "Night's Dawn Trilogy". It contains notes and glossaries on major characters, planets, space stations, political hierarchies, weaponry, spacecraft, invasions and the many alien races with their diverse technologies.
The Moon is very far from Earth. Yet, scientists have been able to get satellites, shuttles, and other spacecraft into space and a few manned spacecraft to land on the Moon. "How Does a Spacecraft Reach the Moon?" reveals the science behind propulsion and the energy it takes to get large craft into space. Colorful photographs and illustrations, complemented by real-world examples, will ignite young readers' interest in space and the vehicles humans use to visit there.
TIME Magazine July 23, 2007 Vol. 170 No. 4
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COVER: Leveling the Praying Field - The Democratic front runners are leading their party's crusade to win over religious voters
• HEALTH & MEDICINE:
Getting Credit for Saving Trees - Forest cover is a natural defense against global warming. Let's pay to preserve it
• TECHNOLOGY/SPACE:
The Slow-Motion Space Mission - The Dawn probe may be the feeblest spacecraft NASA's ever built, but it may usher in a new age of ultraefficient space travel
• ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT:
What Would William Read? - Writers reveal their guilty summer pleasures
