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Beyond Sputnik and the space race : the origins of global satellite communications /

Hugh Richard Slotten, Author | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | 2022

This book is a deeply researched account of how the United States established the first global satellite communications system to project geopolitical leadership during the Cold War.

A telephone for the world : Iridium, Motorola, and the making of a global age /

Martin J. Collins, Author | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | 2018

In June 1990, Motorola publicly announced an ambitious business venture called Iridium. The project’s signature feature was a constellation of 77 satellites in low-Earth orbit which served as the equivalent of cellular towers, connecting to m[...]

Exploration and engineering : the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the quest for Mars /

Erik M. Conway, Author | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | New series in NASA history | 2015

Beginning in the 1990s and continuing through the Mars Phoenix mission of 2007, JPL led the way in engineering an impressive, rapidly evolving succession of Mars orbiters and landers, including roving robotic vehicles whose successful deploymen[...]

Why Mars : NASA and the politics of space exploration /

W. Henry Lambright, Author | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | New series in NASA history | 2014

Author W. Henry Lambright has written an absorbing and detailed look at the long trail of robotic Mars exploration program from its origins to today. This is an excellent review of the politics and policies behind NASA's multi-decade quest at ex[...]

Why Mars : NASA and the politics of space exploration /

W. Henry Lambright, Author | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | New series in NASA history | 2014

Author W. Henry Lambright has written an absorbing and detailed look at the long trail of robotic Mars exploration program from its origins to today. This is an excellent review of the politics and policies behind NASA's multi-decade quest at ex[...]

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To touch the face of God : the sacred, the profane and the American space program, 1957-1975 /

Kendrick Oliver, Author | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | New series in NASA history | 2013

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth..." In 1968 the world watched as Earth rose over the moonscape, televised from the orbiting Apollo 8 mission capsule. Radioing back to Houston on Christmas Eve, astronauts recited the fi[...]

Einstein's Jewish science : physics at the intersection of politics and religion /

Steven Gimbel, Author | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | 2012

Introduction : Einstein's Jewish science -- Is Einstein a Jew? -- Is relativity pregnant with Jewish concepts? -- Why did a Jew formulate the theory of relativity? -- Is the theory of relativity political science or scientific politics? -- Did [...]

Astrobiology : a brief introduction

Kevin W. Plaxco, Author ; Michael Gross, Author | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | 2011

Emphasizing the biochemical nature of astrobiology, Plaxco and Gross expand their examination of the origin of chemical elements, the developments that made the Universe habitable, and how life continues to be sustained. They discuss in great de[...]

Integrating women into the astronaut corps : politics and logistics at NASA, 1972-2004

Amy E. Foster, Author | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | New series in NASA history | 2011

Atmospheric science at NASA : a history /

Erik M. Conway, Author | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | New series in NASA history | 2008

Robots in space : technology, evolution, and interplanetary travel

Roger D. Launius ; Howard E. McCurdy | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | New series in NASA history | 2008

Roger D. Launius received the Smithsonian Institution Secretary's research Prize 2009 for that book.

Right stuff, wrong sex : America's first women in space program

Margaret A. Weitekamp | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | Gender relations in the American experience. | 2004

This book received the EMME Award in 2004.

Single stage to orbit : politics, space technology, and the quest for reusable rocketry

Andrew J. Butrica | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | New series in NASA history | 2003

Space policy in the 21st century

W. Henry Lambright, Editor | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | New series in NASA history | 2003

The secret of Apollo : systems management in American and European space programs

Stephen B. Johnson | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | New series in NASA history | 2002

How does one go about organizing something as complicated as a strategic-missile or space-exploration program? Stephen B. Johnson here explores the answer - systems management - in a groundbreaking study that involves Ir Force planners, scient[...]

Faster, better, cheaper : low-cost innovation in the U. S. space program

Howard E. McCurdy | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | New series in NASA history | 2001

Space exploration has always been one of the country's most expensive undertakings. The first moon landing cost $21 billion in 1969 dollars. The International Space Station currently under construction will cost at least $65 billion by the time [...]

Taking science to the Moon : lunar experiments and the Apollo program

Donald A. Beattie | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | 2001

How did science get aboard the Apollo rockets, and what did scientists do with the space allotted to them? "Taking science to the Moon" describes, from the perspective of NASA headquarters, the struggles that took place to include science payloa[...]

NASA and the space industry

Lisa Joan Bromberg | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | New series in NASA history | 1999

Few federal agencies have more extensive ties to the private sector than NASA. NASA's relationships with its many aerospace industry suppliers of rocket engines, computers, electronics, gauges, valves, O-rings, and other materials have often bee[...]

Powering Apollo : James E. Webb of NASA

W. Henry Lambright | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | New series in NASA history | 1995

Inside NASA : high technology and organizational change in the U.S. space program

Howard E. McCurdy | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | New series in NASA history | 1992

Exploring the sun : solar science since Galileo

Karl Hufbauer | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | New series in NASA history | 1991

The space station decision : incremental politics and technological choice

Howard E. McCurdy | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | New series in NASA history | 1990

Before lift-off : the making of a space shuttle crew

Henry S.F. Cooper | Baltimore (United States) : The Johns Hopkins University Press | New series in NASA history | 1987

For eight days in October 1984, seven men and women orbited the Earth on Space Shuttle Mission 41-G. The mission had begun a year earlier, however, with the selection of its crew. "Before lift-off" is the extraordinary day-to-day story of these [...]