Astronautics

This concise history is the first book in a new series on the Soviet space program and features many rare photographs, diagrams, and charts. When S...

From the age of ten, looking up at the stars, Jerry Ross knew that he wanted to journey into space. This autobiography tells the story of how he ca...

Scott Parazynskis drive, curiosity, inventiveness, and great humor shine through the pages of The Sky Below and will certainly inspire future gener...

A detailed look at the Saturn V's design and construction and all 32 of its Apollo missions. Without the mighty Saturn V rocket, the Apollo 11...

Around the world, NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) is synonymous with air and space flight. This book covers NASAs aerospaceres...

As American astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, television cameras focused on the brave smiles of their wives. Overnight, these wom...

In just two-and-a-half years, beginning in 1964, two unmanned and ten manned flights took place in the Gemini program. This program was the turning...

Project Mercury was America's entry into the manned spaceflight program. When the program began in 1958, the Soviet Union was far ahead of the US i...

Covers in a comprehensive fashion all aspects of cosmic hazards and possible strategies for contending with these threats through a comprehensive p...

In this companion volume to John Bisney and J. L. Pickerings extraordinary book of rare photographs from the Mercury and Gemini missions, the autho...

The Global Positioning System (GPS) has revolutionized the measurement of position, velocity, and time. It has rapidly evolved into a worldwide uti...

Derelict satellites, equipment and other debris orbiting Earth (aka space junk) have been accumulating for many decades and could damage or even po...

The race to space between the United States and the Soviet Union captured the popular imagination. On April 12, 1961, the USSR launched cosmonaut Y...