FollowUp's Mining the Sky

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Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization

Robert Zubrin

"Robert Zubrin is a true engineering genius like the heroic engineers of the past." --Frederick Turner, Ame...

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Interplanetary Outpost: The Human and Technological Challenges of Exploring the Outer Planets (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)

Erik Seedhouse

Interplanetary Outpost follows the mission architecture template of NASA's plan for Human Outer Planet Exploration (...

3

Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us

Donald K. Yeomans

Of all the natural disasters that could befall us, only an Earth impact by a large comet or asteroid has the potentia...

4

Fundamentals of Astrodynamics (Dover Books on Aeronautical Engineering)

Roger R. Bate

5

Alien Seas: Oceans in Space

Michael Carroll (Editor),

Oceans were long thought to exist in all corners of the Solar System, from carbonated seas percolating beneath the cl...

6

SpaceX: Making Commercial Spaceflight a Reality

Erik Seedhouse

This first account of commercial spaceflights most successful venture describes the extraordinary feats of engineering a...

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Emigrating Beyond Earth: Human Adaptation and Space Colonization

Cameron M Smith

Emigrating Beyond Earth puts space colonization into the context of human evolution. Rather than focusing on the tech...

8

Drifting on Alien Winds: Exploring the Skies and Weather of Other Worlds

Michael Carroll

Ever since the Montgolfier's hot air balloon carried a chicken, a goat, and a duck into the Parisian skies, scientis...

9

Prepare for Launch: The Astronaut Training Process

Erik Seedhouse

Today's astronauts require many different abilities. They must not only be expert in performing flight simulations b...

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Living Off the Land in Space: Green Roads to the Cosmos

Gregory L. Matloff

This book presents a visionary concept for future development of space travel. It describes the enabling technology for...

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Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars

Lee Billings

An intimate history of Earth and the quest for life beyond the solar system For 4.6 billion years our living planet h...