Launch vehicles -- The missiles -- The Shuttle -- Back to expendables -- Heavyweights -- Lightweights -- Boom and bust -- The Chinese experience -- The current crop -- Satellites and space probes -- Failure and redundancy -- Propulsion system failures -- Attitude control system failures -- Electrical failures -- Environmental failures -- Structural failures -- Failures on the ground -- Operator…
Saturn as a Planet -- Telescopes and Accessories -- Factors that Affect Observations -- Visual Impressions of Saturn’s Globe and Ring System -- Drawing Saturn’s Globe and Rings -- Methods of Visual Photometry and Colorimetry -- Determining Latitudes and Timing Central Meridian Transits -- Observing Saturn’s Satellites -- A Primer on Imaging Saturn and Its Ring System.Saturn is the second …
The Cosmonaut Training Centre: birth and growth -- Simulators -- Other national and international facilities -- Survival training -- The Cosmonaut Group of the RGNII TsPK -- The Cosmonaut group of RKK Energiya -- Other Soviet and Russian cosmonaut selections -- Cosmonauts selected to fly the Buran Shuttle -- International training -- Joint programmes -- Zvyozdnyy Gorodok — the town.With the a…
Background and Education -- At the 19th Century's End -- A New Abel -- Introduction: Tempora Mutant Et Nos Cum Illis Mutamur -- Geomagnetic and Solar System Research -- Aurora in a Vacuum Chamber -- The Norwegian Auroral Expeditions -- The Universe in a Vacuum Chamber -- Technology and Applied Physics -- Fast Switches and Electromagnetic Cannons -- In as Little as Four Years -- Birkeland the Ma…
Peering at Mars -- A close look -- The Vikings -- What is life? -- A multiplicity of missions -- The water dilemma -- Spirit -- Opportunity -- Future prospects."Why explore Mars? The simple answer is, we’re going to Mars to search for life. We’re following the water because on Earth where you find liquid water, organic material, and energy, you find life." u find life" Ed Weiler, NASA's Ass…
Foreword -- Introduction -- New tools -- The Dark Sky Site -- So, what can we expect to see?- Our Neighbourhood in Space: The Milky Way -- The Great Beyond -- Eyes on the Future -- Appendices -- Recommended equipment manufacturers -- Resources -- Real Time visual astronomy using image intensifiers and data modelling -- StellaCam II Highlights and Description -- Index.Patrick Moore’s Practical…
Getting started -- Routine operations -- A step towards continuous occupancy -- A base block for modular construction -- An astrophysical laboratory -- A microgravity laboratory for hire -- Expansion or abandonment? -- Shuttle-Mir -- The final chapter -- In retrospect.This successor edition picks up the story where the first edition left off in 1997, and runs through to Mir’s de-orbiting in M…
Before the Flight -- Selection for Spaceflight -- Getting Ready -- Astronauts at School -- Launch -- The Sky is not the Limit -- In Orbit -- Space Stations: Giant Cans and Wheels in the Sky -- The end of the Tour -- Returning from Space -- To the Moon, Mars and Beyond -- The Road Ahead.Many scientific papers and popular articles have been written on the topic of space tourism, describing everyt…
“It will take a hundred flights ...” -- Columbia delivers -- Recovery after Challenger -- Extended capabilities -- Golden age -- A miniature space station -- Uncertain future -- “In my book, they always landed ...”.On February 1st 2003, one of the worst and most public disasters ever witnessed in the human space programme unfolded with horrifying suddenness in the skies above north cent…
About the Moon -- The Moon’s Origin -- The Measure of the Moon -- Worlds in Comparison -- Observing the Moon -- Observing and Recording the Moon -- Viewing the Moon with the Unaided Eye -- Lunar Showcase: A Binocular Tour of the Moon’s Trophy Room -- A Survey of the Moon’s Near Side -- Advanced Lunar Research -- The Lunar Observer’s Equipment.ASTRONOMERS’ OBSERVING GUIDES provide up-t…