Astronautics

On 20 July 1969, US astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon. NASA Mission AS-506 Apollo 11 Owners' Works...

Christopher A. Roosa grew up the eldest son of Apollo 14 astronaut and command module pilot Stuart A. Roosa. As a child of the space program, Chris...

An updated and expanded new edition of an authoritative book on flight dynamics and control system design for all types of current and future fixed...

In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot traject...

Space Race 2.0 is the only authoritative photographic history of the efforts of private companiesoften alongside NASAto accelerate humankinds explo...

Near the end of the Apollo 15 mission, David Scott and fellow moonwalker James Irwin conducted a secret ceremony unsanctioned by NASA: they placed ...

Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin left humanity''s first footprints on the Moon, July 20, 1969. A beautiful demonstration of how cu...

For astronaut Ron Garan, living on the International Space Station was a powerful, transformative experience - one that he believes holds the key t...

Designed between 1969 and 1972 and first flown into space in 1981, the NASA Shuttle will have flown almost 140 missions by the time it is retired i...

Humanitys first reusable spacecraft and the most complex machine ever built, NASAs Space Shuttle debuted with great promise and as a dependable so...

From Homer Hickam, the author of the #1 bestselling Rocket Boys adapted into the beloved film October Sky, comes this astonishing memoir of high ad...

In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot traject...

This book provides an insight into what an astronaut does, the experience of space flight, the equipment he uses, and what it takes to become an as...

*As featured on BBC Breakfast, Radio 5Live and Steve Wright in the Afternoon on BBC Radio 2*From the Nasa astronaut who spent a record-breaking yea...

'This terrific memoir... is utterly gripping' Mail on SundayRead this book and be inspired to reach for the impossible Brian Greene Many children d...