Space Science

In May 1961, President Kennedy announced that the United States would attempt to land a man on the moon and return him safely to the earth before t...

The cutting-edge science that is taking the measure of the universeThe Little Book of Cosmology provides a breathtaking look at our universe on the...

The paradox of global universe rotation, as it seems, is today one of its greatest mysteries of nature. The idea originated less than a hundred ye...

The story of the search for life on Marsand the moral issues confronting us as we prepare to send humans thereDoes life exist on Mars? The question...

There's a whole universe out there ... and this book is your journey into space. Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interst...

Driven by discoveries, and enabled by leaps in technology and imagination, our understanding of the universe has changed dramatically during the co...

The methodical study of the crystal growth processes and electrophoretic separation of the biomixtures have been carried out under microgravity con...

The identification of extraterrestrial chiral compounds could provide compelling evidence to prove that extraterrestrial environments such as Mars ...

This book is a ricochet against mainstream physics. It sprang out of the idea that outer symmetries of space-time are the same as inner symmetries ...

A pulsar is a rapidly spinning neutron star that has a mechanism to beam light. This mechanism is only partially understood, but is connected with ...

The federal government collects, maintains, and uses geospatial information -- data linked to specific geographic locations -- to help support vari...

This book presents a comprehensive review of the methods applied to derive cosmological parameters for a given model and test different cosmologica...

The International Space Station (ISS) celebrated 10 years of operations in November 2008. Today, it is more than a human outpost in low Earth orbit...

Deep within the rugged mountains of Southern California and rising above the desert landscape of Southern New Mexico are the oncemajestic historic ...

This book presents a wide spectrum of in-depth analysis detailing the U.S. space program including policy, the space stations, the shuttles and spa...

For the past several years, the priorities of NASA have been governed by the Vision for Space Exploration. The Vision was announced by President Bu...

This book explores and assesses the future of NASA which is at a critical juncture. The agency is in the midst of phasing out the Space Shuttle pro...

This book intends to provide readers an open invitation to liberate themselves and leave aside caution from meteorites threat, which is widely spre...

The International Space Station (ISS) program began in 1993, with Russia joining the United States, Europe, Japan, and Canada. Crews have occupied ...

In November 2013, the International Space Station (ISS or Station) completed 15 years of continuous operation in low Earth orbit, marking a signifi...

NASA's space and Earth science program is composed of two principal components: spaceflight projects and mission-enabling activities. Most of the b...