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Author : Wernher Von Braun
Publisher : Apogee Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Adventure stories, American
ISBN : 0973820330
In this never-before-printed science fiction novel, Wernher von Braun combines technical fact with a human story line in the way that only a true dreamer can realize.
Author : Wernher Von Braun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 4871877248
In 1949 the famous German rocket scientist Dr. Wernher von Braun wrote a science-fiction manuscript based on a trip to Mars. This was more than just a fictional story. It was an actual proposal to send an expedition to Mars. Dr. Wernher von Braun worked out in great detail all the technical requirements for this Mars proposal. He worked out the orbits the space craft would have to follow to reach Mars and how long it would take. He also worked out how many rockets and space ships and crew would be required for this operation. His proposal, because that is what it really was, provided a great amount of scientific and technical information not available anywhere else. For example, did you know that the moon rotates around the Earth at right angles to the way that the Earth rotates around the sun? Did you know the problems this causes for the tides in the ocean? These little known scientific facts and technical details are all in this book but there is much more. Mars rotates around the sun in almost the same plane that the Earth rotates around the sun, but there is a difference has to be accounted for. Then there is the question of radio communications between Mars, the space ship and Earth. Mars is furthest away from Earth at the point where they are on opposite sides of the sun. One would assume that they are too far away from each other to communicate. But we now know that this is not true. A radio transmission can even pass right through Jupiter and reach Pluto and then go on into deeper space. This book anticipates problems that have subsequently taken place. He describes a fictional disaster when a rocket blows up killing the people inside that is almost exactly identical to the real Space Shuttle Challenger disaster that took place on January 28, 1986, with seven would-be astronauts inside, showing that seven would-be astronauts who were killed had not studied this book to anticipate this problem.
Author : Wernher Von Braun
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : History
ISBN : 0252062272
This classic on space travel was first published in 1953, when interplanetary space flight was considered science fiction by most of those who considered it at all. Here the German-born scientist Wernher von Braun detailed what he believed were the problems and possibilities inherent in a projected expedition to Mars. Today von Braun is recognized as the person most responsible for laying the groundwork for public acceptance of America's space program. When President Bush directed NASA in 1989 to prepare plans for an orbiting space station, lunar research bases, and human exploration of Mars, he was largely echoing what von Braun proposed in The Mars Project.
Author : Michael Neufeld
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525435914
Curator and space historian at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum delivers a brilliantly nuanced biography of controversial space pioneer Wernher von Braun. Chief rocket engineer of the Third Reich and one of the fathers of the U.S. space program, Wernher von Braun is a source of consistent fascination. Glorified as a visionary and vilified as a war criminal, he was a man of profound moral complexities, whose intelligence and charisma were coupled with an enormous and, some would say, blinding ambition. Based on new sources, Neufeld's biography delivers a meticulously researched and authoritative portrait of the creator of the V-2 rocket and his times, detailing how he was a man caught between morality and progress, between his dreams of the heavens and the earthbound realities of his life.
Author : William J. Clancey
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262017756
Beginning in 2004, a team of geologists and other planetary scientists did field science in a dark room in Pasadena, exploring Mars from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) by means of the remotely operated Mars Exploration Rovers (MER). Clustered around monitors, living on Mars time, painstakingly plotting each movement of the rovers and their tools, sensors, and cameras, these scientists reported that they felt as if they were on Mars themselves, doing field science. The MER created a virtual experience of being on Mars. This book examines how the MER has changed the nature of planetary field science. NASA cast the rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, as "robotic geologists," and ascribed machine initiative to remotely controlled actions. Clancey argues that the actual explorers were not the rovers but the scientists, who imaginatively projected themselves into the body of the machine to conduct the first overland expedition of another planet. The author investigates how the design of the rover mission enables field science on Mars, explaining how the scientists and rover engineers manipulate the vehicle and why the programmable tools and analytic instruments work so well for them.
Author : Ned Rozell
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781602231238
Finding Mars is an interwoven tale of science, travel, and adventure, as science writer Ned Rozell accompanies permafrost researcher—and inveterate wanderer—Kenji Yoshikawa on a 750-mile trek by snowmobile through the Alaska wilderness. Along the way, Rozell learns about Yoshikawa’s fascinating life, from his boyhood in Tokyo to the youthful wanderlust that led him to push a wheeled cart across the Sahara, ski to the South Pole, and take a sailboat into the frozen reaches of the Arctic Ocean, spending a winter frozen in the ice near Barrow. It’s an always on-the-move account of a man driven not just by the desire to fill in the blank spots on a map, but also to learn everything he can about them—and a ringing testament to the power of science, enthusiasm, and individual inspiration.
Author : Wernher Von Braun
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : STANFORD:36105030472661
Author : Robinson J Ward
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612514048
Written by veteran aerospace journalist Bob Ward, who spent years investigating his subject, this biography presents a revealing but even-handed portrait of the father of modern rocketry. As he chronicles Werner von Braun's life, Ward explodes many myths and misconceptions about the controversial genius who was a hero to some, a villain to others. The picture of von Braun that emerges is of a brilliant scientist with limitless curiosity and a drive to achieve his goals at almost any price—from developing the world’s first ballistic missile used against the Allies in World War II to helping launch the first U.S. satellite that hurled Americans into space and the Saturn V super-booster that powered them to the moon. Along the way readers are introduced to the human side of this charismatic visionary who brought the United States into the Space Age.
Author : Erik Bergaust
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Astronautics
ISBN : IND:30000021426113
Author : Fred Scharmen
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786637345
The radical history of space exploration from the Russian Cosmists to Elon Musk Many societies have imagined going to live in space. What they want to do once they get up there - whether conquering the unknown, establishing space "colonies," privatising the moon's resources - reveals more than expected. In this fascinating radical history of space exploration, Fred Scharmen shows that often science and fiction have combined in the imagined dreams of life in outer space, but these visions have real implications for life back on earth. For the Russian Cosmists of the 1890s space was a place to pursue human perfection away from the Earth. For others, such as Wernher Von Braun, it was an engineering task that combined, in the Space Race, the Cold War, and during World War II, with destructive geopolitics. Arthur C. Clark in his speculative books offered an alternative vision of wonder that is indifferent to human interaction. Meanwhile NASA planned and managed the space station like an earthbound corporation. Today, the market has arrived into outer space and exploration is the plaything of superrich technology billionaires, who plan to privatise the mineral wealth for themselves. Are other worlds really possible? Bringing these figures and ideas together reveals a completely different story of our relationship with outer space, as well as the dangers of our current direction of extractive capitalism and colonisation.
Author : Ilona Aronovsky,Sujata Gopinath
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781484636442
Uses archeological excavations to find out about the civilization of the Indus Valley.
Author : Willy Ley,Wernher Von Braun
Publisher : Viking
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105030618925
An outline of a master blueprint for man's first exploring trip to the planet Mars.
Author : John Rocco
Publisher : Crown Books for Young Readers
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780525647416
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • YALSA EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION FINALIST • A ROBERT F. SIBERT HONOR BOOK This beautifully illustrated, oversized guide to the people and technology of the moon landing by award-winning author/illustrator John Rocco (illustrator of the Percy Jackson series) is a must-have for space fans, classrooms, and tech geeks. Everyone knows of Neil Armstrong's famous first steps on the moon. But what did it really take to get us there? The Moon landing is one of the most ambitious, thrilling, and dangerous ventures in human history. This exquisitely researched and illustrated book tells the stories of the 400,000 unsung heroes--the engineers, mathematicians, seamstresses, welders, and factory workers--and their innovations and life-changing technological leaps forward that allowed NASA to achieve this unparalleled accomplishment. From the shocking launch of the Russian satellite Sputnik to the triumphant splashdown of Apollo 11, Caldecott Honor winner John Rocco answers every possible question about this world-altering mission. Each challenging step in the space race is revealed, examined, and displayed through stunning diagrams, experiments, moments of crisis, and unforgettable human stories. Explorers of all ages will want to pore over every page in this comprehensive chronicle detailing the grandest human adventure of all time!
Author : David S. F. Portree
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Space flight to Mars
ISBN : NASA:31769000641459
Author : Helen T. Wells,Susan H. Whiteley,Carrie E. Karegeannes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UIUC:30112101586888
