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Pluto-bound Spacecraft Sees Changes In Jupiter System (October 10, 2007) -- The voyage of NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft through the Jupiter system earlier this year provided a bird's-eye view of a dynamic planet that has changed since the last close-up looks by ... > full story

Cassini Is On The Trail Of A Runaway Mystery (October 9, 2007) -- NASA scientists are on the trail of Iapetus' mysterious dark side, which seems to be home to a bizarre "runaway" process that is transporting vaporized water ice from the dark areas to the white ... > full story

Astronauts To Ride 'Roller Coaster' Rails In Emergency (October 8, 2007) -- As NASA revamps Launch Complex 39B to host the new Orion spacecraft and Ares I rocket of the Constellation Program, engineers are preparing to install a new kind of departure system to evacuate ... > full story

New Technology Quickly Finds Leaks In Spacecraft (October 6, 2007) -- Tiny meteors flash through space. There's spacecraft debris flying around, too. And so there's a risk that objects just a few millimeters across could pierce the thin aluminum skin of spacecraft such ... > full story

Fifty Years After Sputnik (October 5, 2007) -- Fifty years after Sputnik 1 -- the first artificial satellite -- was launched into orbit, scientists looks back at the story of that particular mission and examines some of key issues of modern ... > full story

Chance Encounter With Comet Nets Surprising Results (October 2, 2007) -- Comets are made of the most primitive stuff in the solar system. As hunks of rock and ice that never coalesced into more planets, they give researchers clues to the evolution of solar systems. So a ... > full story

Tiny Animals Exposed To Outer Space (September 30, 2007) -- For the first time ever, animals are being exposed to the natural space environment, with both vacuum conditions and cosmic radiation. One of the aims of sending the tiny tardigrades into space is to ... > full story

NASA Launches Asteroid Mission, Dawn (September 27, 2007) -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on its way to study a pair of asteroids after lifting off September 27 from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ... > full story

Dealing With Threatening Space Rocks (September 25, 2007) -- Every now and then a space rock hits the world's media -- sometimes almost literally. Threatening asteroids that zoom past the Earth, fireballs in the sky seen by hundreds of people and mysterious ... > full story

Insights About Mars Water And Climate From NASA Orbiter (September 23, 2007) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is examining several features on Mars that address the role of water at different times in Martian history. Features examined with the orbiter's advanced ... > full story

NASA Orbiter Finds Possible Cave Skylights On Mars (September 21, 2007) -- NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has discovered entrances to seven possible caves on the slopes of a Martian volcano. The find is fueling interest in potential underground habitats and sparking ... > full story

Life On Mars 'Pregnancy Test' Successfully Launched (September 18, 2007) -- Key components of a new approach to discover life on Mars were successfully launched into space Friday as part of a 12-day, low-Earth orbit experiment to assess their survivability in the space ... > full story

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Space Mission Analysis and Design, 3rd edition (Space Technology Library) (Space Technology Library)
This practical handbook for Space Mission Engineering draws on leading aerospace experts to carry readers through mission design, from orbit selection to ground ops. SMAD III updates the technology, ... > read more

Rocket Propulsion Elements, 7th Edition
Aerospace Engineering/Mechanical Engineering The definitive text on rocket propulsion-now completely revised to reflect rapid advancements in the field For more than fifty years, this seminal text ... > read more

First Man : The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
On July 20, 1969, the world stood still to watch thirty-eight-year-old American astronaut Neil A. Armstrong become the first person ever to step on the surface of another heavenly body. Perhaps no ... > read more

The Production of Space
Henri Lefebvre has considerable claims to be the greatest living philosopher. His work spans some sixty years and includes original work on a diverse range of subjects, from dialectical materialism ... > read more

Roving Mars : Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet
teve Squyres is the face and voice of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. Squyres dreamed up the mission in 1987, saw it through from conception in 1995 to a successful landing in 2004, and serves ... > read more

Riding Rockets : The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
On February 1, 1978, the first group of space shuttle astronauts, twenty-nine men and six women, were introduced to the world. Among them would be history makers, including the first American woman ... > read more

DietMinder Personal Food & Fitness Journal (A Food and Exercise Diary)
The DietMinder is a deluxe food diary with plenty of room to record quantities and food counts (calories, fat, carbs, protein, etc.) of breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. A special area for daily ... > read more

Universe
Continuing in the bestselling tradition of Animal and Earth, DK brings you Universe - a truly definitive guide that takes you on a tour from the Solar System to the farthest limits of ... > read more

Backyard Ballistics
Ordinary folks can construct 13 awesome ballistic devices in their garage or basement workshops using inexpensive household or hardware store materials and this step-by-step guide. Clear ... > read more

A Briefer History of Time
Stephen Hawking’s worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author’s engaging voice is one reason, and the compelling subjects ... > read more