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Spaceplanes

Author : Matthew A. Bentley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387765107
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (877 download)

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Download or read book Spaceplanes written by Matthew A. Bentley and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-03-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spaceplanes From Airport to Spaceport presents a coherent, lucid, and optimistic picture of the future of the near future. Space vehicles may soon take off from international airports and refuel in space. New technologies could allow flights to take off regularly between the Earth and the Moon. The technical details presented explain precisely how all this can be accomplished within the next few decades. This book also explains why the Space Tourist market could easily become the single most important factor in the mid-term future development of space transportation. In a few years it will be possible to board a spaceplane and fly into Earth orbit, and perhaps visit a space station. Later development could include refuelling in orbit to take a tour of cislunar space. The book's solid engineering foundation will be of interest to both space exploration enthusiasts and future space travelers.

Spaceflight in the Era of Aero-space Planes

Author : Russell James Hannigan
Publisher : Krieger Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Spaceflight in the Era of Aero-space Planes by : Russell James Hannigan

Download or read book Spaceflight in the Era of Aero-space Planes written by Russell James Hannigan and published by Krieger Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work deals with the future aero-space launchers - reusable launch vehicles that are operated like aircraft - from the integrated perspective of the political, technical and economic issues that drive their development. Case study analyses include NASP, Sanger, HOTOL and Delta Clipper.

The Kerbal Player's Guide

Author : Jon Manning
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1491913495
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (919 download)

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Book Synopsis The Kerbal Player's Guide by : Jon Manning

Download or read book The Kerbal Player's Guide written by Jon Manning and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kerbal Space Program (KSP) is a critically acclaimed, bestselling space flight simulator game. It’s making waves everywhere from mainstream media to the actual space flight industry, but it has a bit of a learning curve. In this book, five KSP nerds—including an astrophysicist—teach you everything you need to know to get a nation of tiny green people into space. KSP is incredibly realistic. When running your space program, you’ll have to consider delta-V budgets, orbital mechanics, Hohmann transfers, and more. This book is perfect for video game players, simulation game players, Minecrafters, and amateur astronomers. Design, launch, and fly interplanetary rockets Capture an asteroid and fly it into a parking orbit Travel to distant planets and plant a flag Build a moon rover, and jump off a crater ridge Rescue a crew-mate trapped in deep space

Space Planes and X-vehicles

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Space Planes and X-vehicles written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

DEVM SPACE SHUTTLE

Author : Heppenheimer Ta
Publisher : Smithsonian
ISBN 13 : 9781588340092
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book DEVM SPACE SHUTTLE written by Heppenheimer Ta and published by Smithsonian. This book was released on 2002-05-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

X-Planes from the X-1 to the X-60

Author : Michael H. Gorn
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030863980
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis X-Planes from the X-1 to the X-60 by : Michael H. Gorn

Download or read book X-Planes from the X-1 to the X-60 written by Michael H. Gorn and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Dr. Roger D. Launius, Former NASA Chief Historian For the past 75 years, the U.S. government has invested significant time and money into advanced aerospace research, as evidenced by its many experimental X-plane aircraft and rockets. NASA's X-Planes asks a simple question: What have we gained from it all? To answer this question, the authors provide a comprehensive overview of the X-plane’s long history, from the 1946 X-1 to the modern X-60. The chapters describe not just the technological evolution of these models, but also the wider story of politics, federal budgets, and inter-agency rivalries surrounding them. The book is organized into two sections, with the first covering the operational X-planes that symbolized the Cold War struggle between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R, and the second section surveying post-Cold War aircraft and spacecraft. Featuring dozens of original illustrations of X-plane cross-sections, in-flight profiles, close-ups, and more, this book will educate general readers and specialists alike.

Hypersonic Vehicles

Author : Giuseppe Pezzella
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 1839622695
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Hypersonic Vehicles written by Giuseppe Pezzella and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aviation field there is great interest in high-speed vehicle design. Hypersonic vehicles represent the next frontier of passenger transportation to and from space. However, several design issues must be addressed, including vehicle aerodynamics and aerothermodynamics, aeroshape design optimization, aerodynamic heating, boundary layer transition, and so on. This book contains valuable contributions focusing on hypervelocity aircraft design. Topics covered include hypersonic aircraft aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic design, especially aeroshape design optimization, computational fluid dynamics, and scramjet propulsion. The book also discusses high-speed flow issues and the challenges to achieving the dream of affordable hypersonic travel. It is hoped that the information contained herein will allow for the development of safe and efficient hypersonic vehicles.

Space Planes

Author : Andrew Dewar
Publisher : Periplus Editions
ISBN 13 : 9780794602222
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Space Planes written by Andrew Dewar and published by Periplus Editions. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring a mix of classic space planes, original designs, and exciting stories of journeys into space, this book is a must for space enthusiasts and anyone who's ever loved flying. Color illustrations & photos throughout.

Rocketing Into the Future

Author : Michel van Pelt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461432006
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Rocketing Into the Future written by Michel van Pelt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the technology, history, and future of rocket planes. Michel van Pelt journies into this exciting world, examining the exotic concepts and actual flying vehicles that have been devised over the last hundred years. He recounts the history of rocket airplanes, from the early pioneers who attached simple rockets onto their wooden glider airplanes to the modern world of high-tech research vehicles. The author visits museums where rare examples of early rocket planes are kept and modern laboratories where future spaceplanes are being developed. He explains the technology in an easily understandable way, describing the various types of rocket airplanes and looking at the possibilities for the future. Michel van Pelt considers future spaceplanes, presenting various modern concepts and developments. He describes the development from cutting edge research via demonstrator vehicles to operational use. He also evaluates the replacement of the Space Shuttle with a seemingly old-fashioned capsule system, the parallel developments in suborbital spaceplanes such as SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo, piloted versus automatic flight, and related developments in airliners and military aircraft.

The X-15 Rocket Plane

Author : Michelle Evans
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496211685
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book The X-15 Rocket Plane written by Michelle Evans and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the Soviet Union's launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold War soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into space. The X-15 Rocket Plane tells the enthralling yet little-known story of the hypersonic X-15, the winged rocket ship that met this challenge and opened the way into human-controlled spaceflight. Drawing on interviews with those who were there, Michelle Evans captures the drama and excitement of, yes, rocket science: how to handle the heat generated at speeds up to Mach 7, how to make a rocket propulsion system that could throttle, and how to safely reenter the atmosphere from space and make a precision landing. This book puts a human face on the feats of science and engineering that went into the X-15 program, many of them critical to the development of the Space Shuttle. And, finally, it introduces us to the largely unsung pilots of the X-15. By the time of the Apollo 11 moon landing, thirty-one American astronauts had flown into space--eight of them astronaut-pilots of the X-15. The X-15 Rocket Plane restores these pioneers, and the others who made it happen, to their rightful place in the history of spaceflight. Browse more spaceflight books at upinspace.org. Purchase the audio edition.

The Space Shuttle

Author : Piers Bizony
Publisher : Zenith Press
ISBN 13 : 0760347816
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Space Shuttle written by Piers Bizony and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2015-04 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get a full retrospective of all 134 flights, every mission, of the space shuttle program. This superbly designed and lavishly illustrated reissue of the best-selling hardcover book marks a special moment in history: the final mission of the space shuttle. Noted space and science author Piers Bizony's retrospective covers the entire space shuttle program that began in 1981 and ended in 2011. Every space shuttle mission is detailed, including all flights of the Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour spacecraft. The book also covers the development and design of the orbiter, as well as the technical specifications of the vehicle and details of its major assemblies and subassemblies. A full double-gatefold provides a large-scale technical drawing of the space shuttle. If you never got to watch the countdown clock in person during a space shuttle launch, The Space Shuttle is your chance to relive the history of America's first low Earth orbital spacecraft.

Spaceplanes

Author : Sue L. Hamilton
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1098219562
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Spaceplanes written by Sue L. Hamilton and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title brings readers the history and excitement of the world's attempts at creating aircraft that are part plane and part spaceship. From NASA's space shuttles to Britain's Skylon to Virgin Galactic's Unity, readers learn the developments of the past that have led to the possibility of everyday travelers going where only highly trained astronauts have gone before. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. A&D Xtreme is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Spaceflight Revolution

Author : David Ashford
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1783261234
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Spaceflight Revolution written by David Ashford and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2002-12-10 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolution in spaceflight is likely soon with the prospect of everyday access to orbit within fifteen years. Costly launch vehicles based on ballistic missiles will be replaced by ‘spaceplanes’, using technology that exists today. In five years' time, a prototype could be built, and with a further ten years of detailed development, the design could approach airliner maturity, reducing the cost of sending people into space some one thousand times to around US$20,000.Spaceplane development has, in effect, been suppressed by entrenched thinking and short-term vested interests. But the present monopoly of large government space agencies is becoming unsupportable, and the market that understands the very real opportunities for space travel will be reaching critical mass in the near future.This book examines these issues and shows why space tourism will one day become the single largest business in space, and how astronomy and environmental science will be transformed by low-cost access making possible instruments vastly larger than those of today.

Popular Science

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1997-09 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.

The Kansas University Science Bulletin

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Kansas University Science Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devoted to the publication of the results of research by members of the University of Kansas.

GIS and GeoComputation

Author : Peter Atkinson
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482268264
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book GIS and GeoComputation written by Peter Atkinson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-03-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geographic Information Systems are computer-based systems for geographic analysis. They have been developed over the past twenty five years and are now widely used. A recent research direction has been the development of geocomputation , representing computer-based geographical analysis beyond the traditional bounds of GIS. In geocomputation, th

China's Military Modernization

Author : Richard D. Fisher, Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1567207618
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (672 download)

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Download or read book China's Military Modernization written by Richard D. Fisher, Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's rise to global economic and strategic eminence, with the potential for achieving pre-eminence in the greater-Asian region, is one of the defining characteristics of the post-Cold War period. This work offers a basic understanding of the military-strategic basis and trajectory of a rising China, provides background, and outlines current and future issues concerning China's rise in strategic-military influence. The next decade may witness China's assertion of military or strategic pressure on Japan, the Korean Peninsula, India, the South China Sea, the Taiwan Strait, Central Asia, or even on behalf of future allies in Africa and Latin America. While conflict is not a foregone conclusion, as indicated by China's increasing participation in many benign international organizations, it is a fact that China's leadership will pursue its interests as it sees them, which may not always coincide with those of the United States, its friends, and allies. Until now, no single volume has existed that provides an authoritative, comprehensive, and concise description of China's evolving geo-strategy or of how China is transforming its military to carry out this strategy. Fisher examines how China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) remains critical to the existence of the Chinese Communist government and looks at China's political and military actions designed to protect its expanded strategic interests in both the Asia-Pacific and Central to Near-Asian regions. Using open sources, including over a decade of unique interview sources, Fisher documents China's efforts to build a larger nuclear force that may soon be protected by missile defenses, modern high technology systems for space, air, and naval forces, and how China is now beginning to assemble naval, air, and ground forces for future power projection missions. His work also examines how the United States and other governments simultaneously seek greater engagement with China on strategic concerns, while hedging against its rising power. Although China faces both internal and external constraints on its rise to global eminence, it cannot be denied that China's government is pursuing a far-reaching strategic agenda.