Astronautics

Since ancient times, men and women have dreamed of soaring among the stars, but only in this century has that dream been realized. In Rockets into ...

Aeronautical engineers concerned with the analysis of aircraft dynamics and the synthesis of aircraft flight control systems will find an indispens...

'Forget geek stereotypes. Parsons' life seems straight out of a Hollywood thriller ... Pendle's book leaves us with a taste of genius's energy and ...

Aircraft Design: A Systems Engineering Approach presents the entire process of aircraft design from conceptual design through to the preliminary de...

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy issued a challenge: the United States would land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth before the end...

Since the first rocket-technology experiments of the early 20th century, space exploration has captivated the world. Recent advances and setbacks h...

What do anthrax protection, golf clubs, and cordless power tools have in common? Each was invented or improved with technology first developed for ...

Rather than examining only the civil or military side of the US space program, as have many books in the past, Space, the Dormant Frontier takes a ...

Race to the Moon is a suspenseful thriller about the 30-year clash between the United States and the Soviet Union to be the first to put a man on t...

Here is a history of the development of military missiles and space travel from World War II to the American visits to the Moon in 1969-1972. It st...

This well-researched and clearly-written book tells the story of the complications involved in NASA's selection of astronauts. The Real Stuff is th...

Fundamentals of Unsteady Turbulent Flows with Python Coding is designed as a text for advanced turbulence students who need to build on their eleme...

The first book-length, in-depth ethnography of U.S. human spaceflight What if outer space is not outside the human environment but, rather, defines...

In the years since the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Rover first began transmitting images from the surface of Mars, we have become familiar w...

*An instant New York Times Bestseller*'One of the most exciting tales of our time... It's the next tech frontier, and Vance turns it into a thrille...