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Official NASA publication marks the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing and features essays by project participants recalling engineering...

America's first successful attempt at robotic lunar exploration, Project Ranger ran from 1959 to 1965, culminating in close-up television images...

This illustrated history by a trio of experts is the definitive reference on the Apollo spacecraft and lunar modules. It...

NASA's official history chronicles the start of our explorations of our planetary neighbor. It recounts cooperation among government, industry, and...

In the Fall of 1892, Alexander Russell Webb, the American consul to the Philippine Islands, resigned his post and set...

Excellent graduate-level text explores virtually every important subject in the fields of subsonic, transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic aerodynamics and dy......

Managing Large Systems examines a range of human, organizational, and managerial challenges associated with large systems. Special attention is given...

International Series of Monographs in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Division 1: Solid and Structural Mechanics, Volume 8: The Design of Structures...

Aeroelastic and structural dynamic phenomena play an important role in many facets of engineering. In particular, an understanding of these...

The Bending and Stretching of Plates deals with elastic plate theory, particularly on small- and large-deflexion theory. Small-deflexion theory concerns...

Division III. Propulsion Systems Including Fuels, Volume 6: Principles of Spaceflight Propulsion provides an introduction to the fundamentals of the...

Despite diagnosis being the key feature of a physician's clinical performance, this is the first book that deals specifically with...

The story of a handful of talented American engineers and adventurers who labored to conquer gravity in a flying machine....

This book teaches the reader to build rockets--powered by compressed air, water, and solid propellant--with the maximum possible fun, safety,...

Two of the most significant publications in the history of rocketry and jet propulsion: "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes"...

Most people accept the view that the Wright brothers invented the airplane. “Not so!” according to American aviation pioneer Augustus...

Years ago, Burt Rutan told a reporter for Popular Mechanics, “If we make a courageous decision like the goal and...

Comprehensive coverage includes environmental torques, energy dissipation, motion equations for four archetypical systems, orientation parameters, illustrati......

Monumental engineering text covers vertical flight, forward flight, performance, mathematics of rotating systems, rotary wing dynamics and aerodynamics, aero......

Comprehensive, classic introduction to space-flight engineering for advanced undergraduate and graduate students provides basic tools for quantitative analys......