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China's space programme : from the era of Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping

S. Chandrashekar, Author | Singapore : Springer | 2022

This book comprehensively covers the history and current developments of space programme of China. It presents the complete story of China's space programme from its origins through to present day activities on the International Space Station.[...]

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50 years of solar system exploration : historical perspectives

Linda Billings, Editor ; Solar System Exploration @ 50, Author | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration | NASA SP | 2021

"To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first successful planetary mission, Mariner 2 sent to Venus in 1962, the NASA History Program Office, the Division of Space History at the National Air and Space Museum, NASA's Science Mission Director[...]

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Earth and space 2021 : materials, structures, dynamics, and control in extreme environments

Paul J. van Susante, Author ; Alaina Dickason Roberts, Author | [S.l.] : American Society of Civil Engineers | 2021

This collection contains 55 peer-reviewed papers on multidisciplinary approaches to engineering in extreme environments presented at the 17th Biennial International Conference on Engineering, Science, Construction, and Operations in Challenging [...]

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The next 500 years : engineering life to reach new worlds /

Christopher E. Mason, Author | Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press | 2021

An argument that we have a moral duty to explore other planets and solar systems--because human life on Earth has an expiration date. Inevitably, life on Earth will come to an end, whether by climate disaster, cataclysmic war, or the death of[...]

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Technologies for deep space exploration

Zezhou Sun, Author | Singapore : Springer | Space Science and Technologies | 2021

This book offers readers essential insights into system design for deep space probes and describes key aspects such as system design, orbit design, telecommunication, GNC, thermal control, propulsion, aerobraking and scientific payload. Each cha[...]

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Dark skies : space expansionism, planetary geopolitics, and the ends of humanity /

Daniel Deudney, Author | New York, NY : Oxford University Press | 2020

"Dark Skies is the first work to assess the full impacts of space expansion, past, present and future. Thinking about space, and the visions fervently promoted by the global space movement, are dominated by geographic misperceptions and utopian [...]

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Space capacity building in the XXI Century

S. Ferretti, Editor ; European Space Policy Institute (ESPI), Editor | [S.l.] : SpringerWienNewYork | Studies in space policy | 2020

This book, edited by the European Space Policy Institute, is the first international publication, following UNISPACE+50, to analyze how space capacity building can empower the international community towards fully accessing all the economic and [...]

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The value of science in space exploration

James S. J. Schwartz, Author | New York, NY : Oxford University Press | 2020

"The Value of Space Science provides a rigorous assessment of the value of scientific knowledge and understanding in the context of contemporary space exploration. It argues that traditional spaceflight rationales are deficient, and that the str[...]

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The case for space : how the revolution in spaceflight opens up a future of limitless possibility /

Robert Zubrin, Author | [S.l.] : Prometheus Books | 2019

Astronautical engineer Robert Zubrin spells out the potential of these new developments in an engrossing narrative that is visionary yet grounded by a deep understanding of the practical challenges.Fueled by the combined expertise of the old aer[...]

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The case for space : how the revolution in spaceflight opens up a future of limitless possibility /

Robert Zubrin, Author | [S.l.] : Prometheus Books | 2019

Astronautical engineer Robert Zubrin spells out the potential of these new developments in an engrossing narrative that is visionary yet grounded by a deep understanding of the practical challenges.Fueled by the combined expertise of the old aer[...]

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The future of humanity : our destiny in the universe

Michio Kaku, Author | New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC | 2019

Formerly the domain of fiction, moving human civilization to the stars is increasingly becoming a scientific possibility--and a necessity. Whether in the near future due to climate change and the depletion of finite resources, or in the distant [...]

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Interplanetary robots : true stories of space exploration

Rod Pyle, Author | [S.l.] : Prometheus Books | 2019

Exploring the planets has been a goal of America's space program since the dawn of the space race. This insider's perspective examines incredible missions of robotic spacecraft to every corner of our solar system and beyond. Some were flown into[...]

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Principles of space anthropology : establishing a science of human space settlement

Cameron McPherson Smith, Author | Cham : Springer | Space and Society Series | 2019

This book shows how anthropology can provide an innovative perspective on the human movement into space. It examines adaptation to space on timescales of generations, rather than merely months or years, and uses evolutionary adaptation as a guid[...]

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Principles of space anthropology : establishing a science of human space settlement

Cameron McPherson Smith, Author | Cham : Springer | Space and Society Series | 2019

This book shows how anthropology can provide an innovative perspective on the human movement into space. It examines adaptation to space on timescales of generations, rather than merely months or years, and uses evolutionary adaptation as a guid[...]

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Space science and the Arab world : astronauts, observatories and nationalism in the Middle East /

JLorg Matthias Determann, Author | [S.l.] : I.B. Tauris | 2019

This book identifies the individuals, institutions and national ideologies that enabled Arab astronomers and researchers to gain support for space exploration when Middle East governments lacked interest. Jorg Matthias Determann shows that the c[...]

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Without space : in a world without space, what will happen?

Illkirch-Graffenstaden (France) : International Space University | 2019

This report describes possible reasons that global access to space assets could suddenly disappear. It also explains the types of technology that would be affected, and explores the impact of these losses from commercial, economic, ethical, lega[...]

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Origins of 21st-century space travel : a history of NASA's decadal planning team and the vision for space exploration, 1999-2004

Glen R. Asner, Author ; Stephen J. Garber, Author | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration | NASA SP | 2018

Less than one year after the Columbia Space Shuttle accident on 1 February 2003, President George W. Bush announced at NASA Headquarters that the Agency would embark on a new Vision for Space Exploration as it resumed Shuttle flights and worked [...]

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Origins of 21st-century space travel : a history of NASA's decadal planning team and the vision for space exploration, 1999-2004

Glen R. Asner, Author ; Stephen J. Garber, Author | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration | NASA SP | 2018

Less than one year after the Columbia Space Shuttle accident on 1 February 2003, President George W. Bush announced at NASA Headquarters that the Agency would embark on a new Vision for Space Exploration as it resumed Shuttle flights and worked [...]

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Outer solar system

Viorel Badescu, Author ; Kris Zacny, Author | Cham : Springer | 2018

The Earth has limited resources while the resources in space are virtually unlimited. Further development of humanity will require going beyond our planet and exploring of extraterrestrial bodies and their resources. This book investigates Outer[...]

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Space resource utilization : a view from an emerging space faring nation /

Annette Froehlich, Editor | [S.l.] : SpringerWienNewYork | Studies in space policy | 2018

The book speaks to the need for a regulatory framework with regards to space resource utilization. In doing so, significant elements of the subject matter have been explored, taking into account the different phases of a space mission and the p[...]

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Dream missions : space colonies, nuclear spacecraft and other possibilities /

Michel Van Pelt, Author | New York ; London ; Chichester : Springer-Praxis | 2017

This book takes the reader on a journey through the history of extremely ambitious, large and complex space missions that never happened. What were the dreams and expectations of the visionaries behind these plans, and why were they not successf[...]

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Impossible horizon : the essence of space exploration

Jacques Arnould, Author | Adelaide : ATF Press | 2017

For a long time what we now know as 'space' was inaccessible to humans, not because it was at a height which was unattainable without the least astronautical technology or principles, but because of the cosmic and dualistic representation of rea[...]

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Le nouvel age spatial : de la guerre froide au New Space

Xavier Pasco, Author | [S.l.] : CNRS Editions | 2017

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Outposts on the frontier : a fifty-year history of space stations /

Jay Chladek, Author | [S.l.] : University of Nebraska Press | Outward odyssey : a people's history of spaceflight | 2017

The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest man-made structure to orbit Earth and has been conducting research for close to a decade and a half. Yet it is only the latest in a long line of space stations and laboratories that have flow[...]

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Proceedings of the 12th Reinventing Space Conference

Scott Hatton, Editor | New York, NY : Springer | 2017

The 2014 Reinventing Space conference presented a number of questions in the context of a constantly innovating space industry, from addressing the future of global cooperation, investigating the impact of cuts in US government spending on the p[...]

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Exploring the planets : a memoir /

F. W. Taylor, Author | Oxford : Oxford University Press | 2016

The book offers a personal account of how the space programme has evolved, in particular exploring how the motivations of researchers and politicians can merge to generate the large budgets required; and how the technology is planned and develop[...]

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Historical guide to NASA and the space program

Ann Beardsley, Author ; C. Tony Garcia, Author ; Joseph Sweeney, Author | Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield | 2016

The Historical Guide to NASA and the Space Program contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on space missions, astronauts, technical terms, sp[...]

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Human missions to Mars : enabling technologies for exploring the red planet /

Donald Rapp, Author | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in astronautical engineering | 2016

The second edition of this book now includes an annotated history of Mars mission studies, with quantitative data wherever possible. As in the first edition, Donald Rapp looks at human missions to Mars from an engineering perspective. He divi[...]

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Human missions to Mars : enabling technologies for exploring the red planet /

Donald Rapp, Author | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in astronautical engineering | 2016

The second edition of this book now includes an annotated history of Mars mission studies, with quantitative data wherever possible. As in the first edition, Donald Rapp looks at human missions to Mars from an engineering perspective. He divi[...]

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Infinity beckoned : adventuring through the inner solar system, 1969-1989 /

Jay Gallentine, Author | [S.l.] : University of Nebraska Press | 2016

"Account of unmanned lunar and planetary exploration from the early 1970s to the early 1990s"-- "Infinity Beckoned illuminates a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system. With an irreverent[...]

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