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pro vyhledávání: '"SCIENCE / Space Science / Space Exploration"'
Autor:
Jacob Haqq-Misra
The goal of sending humans to Mars is becoming increasingly technologically feasible, but the prospect of space colonization raises important questions about civilizational ethics and collective morality. History shows how destructive colonialism has
Autor:
John Howard Casper
Looking up at the stars at the age of ten, John Casper dreamed of being a space explorer. The Sky Above tells how persistence and determination led to flying in space, after serving the nation as a combat fighter pilot and test pilot. Despite life-th
Autor:
Christopher Wanjek
A Telegraph Best Science Book of the Year“A witty yet in-depth exploration of the prospects for human habitation beyond Earth…Spacefarers is accessible, authoritative, and in the end, inspiring.”—Richard Panek, author of The Trouble with Grav
Autor:
James E. Dobson, Rena J. Mosteirin
Moonbit is a hybrid work comprised of experimental poetry and a critical theory of the poetics and politics of computer code. It offers an extended intellectual and creative engagement with the affordances of computer software through multiple readin
Autor:
Emily Carney, Bruce McCandless
Star Bound is a book for anyone who wants to learn about the American space program but isn't sure where to start. First and foremost, it's a history—short, sweet, and straightforward. From rocketry pioneer Robert Goddard's primitive flight tests i
Autor:
Leigh Dayton
By definition scientists are an inquisitive lot. But what are the scientific curiosities and concerns on the minds of Australians? What worries them, baffles them, and sets their curiosity meter to 10 out of 10? To find out, the Office of the Chief S
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013. Space and Place: Exploring Critical Issues is an inter-disciplinary study that offers new collaborative ideas on a variety of aspects of space and place, ranging from philosophies a
Autor:
Amy E. Foster
Why, Amy E. Foster asks, did it take two decades after the Soviet Union launched its first female cosmonaut for the United States to send its first female astronaut into space? In answering this question, Foster recounts the complicated history of in
Autor:
David A. Mindell
How human pilots and automated systems worked together to achieve the ultimate in flight—the lunar landings of NASA's Apollo program.As Apollo 11's Lunar Module descended toward the moon under automatic control, a program alarm in the guidance comp
Autor:
Nathalie A. Cabrol
One of the world's leading astrobiologists takes us on an awe-inspiring journey across the cosmos to investigate some of humanity's most profound questions: Are we alone in the universe? And how did life on Earth begin?We are in a golden age in astro