Browsing by Subject "Space"

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    • NASA Spaceflight: A History of Innovation 

      McCurdy, Howard E.; Launius, Roger D. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book presents the first comprehensive history of innovation at NASA, bringing together experts in the field to illuminate how public-private and international partnerships have fueled new ways of exploring space since ...

    • Same Place, More Space: 50 Projects to Maximize Every Room in the House 

      Champley, Karl; Kelly, Karen; Mount, Arthur (Chronicle Books, 2011)
      Master carpenter and DIY Network host Karl Champley offers 50 home improvement projects to maximize space in any dwelling, no matter how big or small. Keeping an eye on style and economy, Champley outlines tools, materials, ...

    • Space and astronomy experiments 

      Walker, Pamela; Wood, Elaine (Facts On File, 2010)
      The field of space and astronomy is devoted to the study of the heavenly bodies, their behavior, and characteristics. As the oldest natural science, knowledge of astronomy has come from some of the world's greatest scientists, ...

    • The Space That Remains: Reading Latin Poetry in Late Antiquity 

      Pelttari, Aaron (Cornell University Press, 2014)
      When we think of Roman Poetry, the names most likely to come to mind are Vergil, Horace, and Ovid, who flourished during the age of Augustus. The genius of Imperial poets such as Juvenal, Martial, and Statius is now generally ...

    • Spaceflight: A Concise History 

      Neufeld, Michael J. (MIT Press, 2018)
      Spaceflight is one of the greatest human achievements of the twentieth century. The Soviets launched Sputnik, the first satellite, in 1957, less than twelve years later, the American Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon. ...

    • A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts: Volume II: Space, Time and Motion 

      Kuehn, Kerry (Springer, 2015)
      This book provides a chronological introduction to the science of motion and rest based on the reading and analysis of significant portions of Galileo’s Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences, Pascal’s Treatise on the ...