Back In Orbit

Author : Davide Sivolella
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781461409830

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To Orbit and Back Again by Davide Sivolella Pdf

The Space Shuttle has been the dominant machine in the U.S. space program for thirty years and has generated a great deal of interest among space enthusiasts and engineers. This book enables readers to understand its technical systems in greater depth than they have been able to do so before. The author describes the structures and systems of the Space Shuttle, and then follows a typical mission, explaining how the structures and systems were used in the launch, orbital operations and the return to Earth. Details of how anomalous events were dealt with on individual missions are also provided, as are the recollections of those who built and flew the Shuttle. Many photographs and technical drawings illustrate how the Space Shuttle functions, avoiding the use of complicated technical jargon. The book is divided into two sections: Part 1 describes each subsystem in a technical style, supported by diagrams, technical drawings, and photographs to enable a better understanding of the concepts. Part 2 examines different flight phases, from liftoff to landing. Technical material has been obtained from NASA as well as from other forums and specialists. Author Davide Sivolella is an aerospace engineer with a life-long interest in space and is ideally qualified to interpret technical manuals for a wider audience. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the topic including the evolution of given subsystems, reviewing the different configurations, and focusing on the solutions implemented.

Author : The Dayron Daily News,Scott Montgomery,Timothy R. Gaffney
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1563525259

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Back in Orbit by The Dayron Daily News,Scott Montgomery,Timothy R. Gaffney Pdf

The story of Glenn's heroic return to orbit, including his preparation, the shuttle's transmissions from space, and the landing.

Author : Margaret Lazarus Dean
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781555973414

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Leaving Orbit by Margaret Lazarus Dean Pdf

Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a breathtaking elegy to the waning days of human spaceflight as we have known it In the 1960s, humans took their first steps away from Earth, and for a time our possibilities in space seemed endless. But in a time of austerity and in the wake of high-profile disasters like Challenger, that dream has ended. In early 2011, Margaret Lazarus Dean traveled to Cape Canaveral for NASA's last three space shuttle launches in order to bear witness to the end of an era. With Dean as our guide to Florida's Space Coast and to the history of NASA, Leaving Orbit takes the measure of what American spaceflight has achieved while reckoning with its earlier witnesses, such as Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, and Oriana Fallaci. Along the way, Dean meets NASA workers, astronauts, and space fans, gathering possible answers to the question: What does it mean that a spacefaring nation won't be going to space anymore?

Author : Kenneth W. Iliff,Curtis Peebles
Publisher : History Office
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UIUC:30112065968544

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From Runway to Orbit by Kenneth W. Iliff,Curtis Peebles Pdf

NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT--OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price while supplies last NASA SP 2004-4109. NASA History Series. Presents the memoirs of Dr. Kenneth W. Iliff, the retired Chief Scientist of NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. He worked at NASA from 1962-2002. Related products: Commercial Orbital Transportation Services: A New Era in Spaceflight is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/033-000-01367-1 Reference Guide to the International Space Station is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/033-000-01373-6 Other products produced by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/550"

Author : David Wellington
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316419550

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The Last Astronaut by David Wellington Pdf

Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2020! "A terrifying tour de force." --James Rollins "Readers will be riveted." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) Sally Jansen was NASA's leading astronaut, until a mission to Mars ended in disaster. Haunted by her failure, she lives in quiet anonymity, convinced her days in space are over. She's wrong. A large alien object has entered the solar system on a straight course toward Earth. It has made no attempt to communicate. Out of time and out of options, NASA turns to Jansen. But as the object reveals its secrets, Jansen and her crew find themselves in a desperate struggle for survival -- against the cold vacuum of space, and something far, far worse... "Breathless, compulsive reading." --Christopher Golden "A suspenseful, fast-paced story of first contact." --Kirkus

Author : Kevin Hearne
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345548528

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Staked by Kevin Hearne Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the eighth book in The Iron Druid Chronicles, two-thousand-year-old Druid Atticus O’Sullivan faces the clan of vampires who have been bent on destroying him—including Leif, his former best friend turned enemy. When a Druid lives as long as Atticus does, he’s bound to run afoul of a few vampires—make that legions of them. Even his former friend and legal counsel turned out to be a bloodsucking backstabber. Now the toothy troublemakers—led by power-mad pain-in-the-neck Theophilus—are no longer content to live undead and let live. Atticus needs to make a point—and drive it into a vampire’s heart. As always, Atticus wouldn’t mind a little backup. But his allies have problems of their own. Ornery archdruid Owen Kennedy is having a wee bit of troll trouble: Turns out when you stiff a troll, it’s not water under the bridge. Meanwhile, Granuaile is desperate to free herself of the Norse god Loki’s mark and elude his powers of divination—a quest that will bring her face-to-face with several Slavic nightmares. As Atticus globe-trots to stop his vampire nemesis, the journey leads to Rome. What better place to end an immortal than the Eternal City? But poetic justice won’t come without a price: In order to defeat Theophilus, Atticus may have to lose an old friend. Don’t miss any of The Iron Druid Chronicles: HOUNDED | HEXED | HAMMERED | TRICKED | TRAPPED | HUNTED | SHATTERED | STAKED | SCOURGED | BESIEGED

Author : Nicole Peeler
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316201247

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Eye of the Tempest by Nicole Peeler Pdf

Nothing says "home" like being attacked by humans with very large guns, as Jane and Anyan discover when they arrive in Rockabill. These are professionals, brought into kill, and they bring Anyan down before either Jane or the barghest can react. Seeing Anyan fall awakens a terrible power within Jane, and she nearly destroys herself taking out their attackers. Jane wakes, weeks later, to discover that she's not the only thing that's been stirring. Something underneath Rockabill is coming to life: something ancient, something powerful, and something that just might destroy the world. Jane and her friends must act, striking out on a quest that only Jane can finish. For whatever lurks beneath the Old Sow must be stopped. . .and Jane's just the halfling for the job.

Author : Chris Jones
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781770890732

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Out of Orbit by Chris Jones Pdf

In February 2003, American astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox and Russian flight engineer Nikolai Budarin were on a routine fourteen-week mission maintaining the International Space Station. But then the space shuttle Columbia exploded far beneath them. With the launch program suspended indefinitely, these astronauts had suddenly lost their ride back to earth. Out of Orbit chronicles the efforts of the beleaguered mission controls in Houston and Moscow as they worked frantically against the clock, ultimately settling on a plan that felt, at best, like a long shot. Latched to the side of the space station was a Russian-built Soyuz TMA-1 capsule, the rocket equivalent of a 1976 Gremlin. Despite the inherent danger, the Soyuz became the only hope to return Bowersox, Budarin, and Pettit home. Their harrowing journey back to earth is a powerful reminder that space travel remains an incredibly dangerous pursuit.

Author : Amanda Carlson
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316205665

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Full Blooded by Amanda Carlson Pdf

In the vein of Kelley Armstrong and Patricia Briggs, Amanda Carlson's debut is a new urban fantasy that rewrites the werewolf myth. . . It's not easy being a girl. It's even harder when you're the only girl in a family of werewolves. But it's next to impossible when your very existence spells out the doom of your race. . . Meet Jessica McClain -- she just became part of the pack.

Author : Kate Elliott
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316121828

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Cold Magic by Kate Elliott Pdf

The Wild Hunt is stirring - and the dragons are finally waking from their long sleep... Cat Barahal was the only survivor of the flood that took her parents. Raised by her extended family, she and her cousin, Bee, are unaware of the dangers that threaten them both. Though they are in beginning of the Industrial Age, magic - and the power of the Cold Mages - still hold sway. Now, betrayed by her family and forced to marry a powerful Cold Mage, Cat will be drawn into a labyrinth of politics. There she will learn the full ruthlessness of the rule of the Cold Mages. What do the Cold Mages want from her? And who will help Cat in her struggle against them?

Author : Eric Braun
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781404857100

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If I Were an Astronaut by Eric Braun Pdf

Discusses activities astronauts do while they're in space.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119651045

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NASA Lunar Orbit Rendezvous Decision by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics Pdf

Author : Will McIntosh
Publisher : Start Publishing LLC
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781597803366

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Hitchers by Will McIntosh Pdf

Two years ago, on the same day but miles apart, Finn Darby lost two of the most important people in his life: his wife Lorena, struck by lightning on the banks of the Chattahoochee River, and his abusive, alcoholic grandfather, Tom Darby, creator of the long-running newspaper comic strip Toy Shop. Against his grandfather’s dying wish, Finn has resurrected Toy Shop, adding new characters, and the strip is more popular than ever, bringing in fan letters, merchandising deals, and talk of TV specials. Finn has even started dating again. When a terrorist attack decimates Atlanta, killing half a million souls, Finn begins blurting things in a strange voice beyond his control. The voice says things only his grandfather could know. Countless other residents of Atlanta are suffering a similar bizarre affliction. Is it mass hysteria, or have the dead returned to possess the living? Finn soon realizes he has a hitcher within his skin... his grandfather. And Grandpa isn’t terribly happy about the changes Finn has been making to Toy Shop. Together with a pair of possessed friends, an aging rock star, and a waitress, Finn races against time to find a way to send the dead back to Deadland... or die trying!

Author : Mack Reynolds,Dean Ing
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479403608

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Trojan Orbit by Mack Reynolds,Dean Ing Pdf

Island One, the U.S.'s first space colony and symbol of an American Renaissance, is in trouble. Low morale, shoddy workmanship, unexplained malfunctions, and avoidable accidents have become a way of life, and nobody seems to know why. Is in the Russians? Home-grown anti-technologists? Arabs afraid of cheap solar power from Space -- or something even more sinister? When the President ordered secret agent Peter Kapitz to find out what was going on, Peter's first discovery is that the Russians are indeed involved. His second is that they are not alone. He will probably not live to make a third.

Author : United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112111294

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Lunar Orbit Rendezvous by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Pdf