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Dark Mission: The Secret History of Nasa
by Richard C. Hoagland, Mike Bara (October 2007)
For most Americans, the word NASA suggests a
squeaky-clean image of technological infallibility. Yet
the truth is that NASA was born in a lie and has concealed
the truths about its occult origins. Dark Mission
documents this seemingly wild assertion. Why is the Bush
administration intent on returning to the moon as quickly
as possible? What are the reasons for the current "space
race" with China, Russia, even India? Remarkable images
reproduced within this book provided to author Richard C.
Hoagland by disaffected NASA employees provide clues why,
including information about suppressed lunar discoveries.
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Space Programs Outside the United States: All Exploration
and Research Efforts, Country by Country by Daphne
Burleson
 (January
2005)
Most people are familiar with NASA and the Soviet and then
Russian space programs, but how many people have heard of
the Austrian Space Agency? Space Ireland? SUPARCO of
Pakistan? Space exploration and space-related scientific
applications, far from being the province of the
superpowers, are a worldwide effort and are developing in
some seemingly unlikely places. Forty-two countries or
groups of countries, besides the United States, have or
have had active space programs. This near-comprehensive
(American agencies, well documented elsewhere, are
omitted) history of the world's space programs is full of
detailed information. The heavily illustrated chapters,
arranged alphabetically, describe each country's
facilities; launch vehicles, rockets and satellites; major
areas of research; and more.
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Europe's Space Programme: To Ariane and
Beyond
by Brian Harvey (April 2003)
In Europe's Space Programme - to Ariane and Beyond, author
Brian Harvey begins with the fledgling European rocket
effort of the 1930s and the key pioneers of the period,
examining the significance of the V-2 and the
technological advances represented by its development. He
shows how the Russians and Americans put their captured
V-2s to work, but the European countries were slower to
respond. Both Britain and France developed national space
programmes in the 1950s and 1960s and the early attempts
at European co-operation for launcher development - ELDO
and ESRO - are described. The formation of the European
Space Agency and the origins of the successful Ariane
launcher programme are discussed and Europe's subsequent
success in the world launcher market, its cutting-edge
role in space applications and European manned
spaceflight, are all described in detail.
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NASA's
Scientist-Astronauts
by
David J. Shayler, Colin Burgess (July 2006)
The first
astronauts were military test pilots. Science was never at
the forefront of their minds – their primary objective was
to survive the mission and report on engineering aspects
of their flights. In 1965, the first of two teams of NASA
scientist-astronauts was selected, but not without causing
immediate outcries and deep divisions within the ranks of
existing astronauts, who hotly contended that the
scientists’ lack of flight and technical experience could
jeopardise the safety of future missions and the crews’
lives. This book is about NASA’s two scientist-astronaut
groups from the 1960s, reveals how their fortunes and
careers were shaped or even cut short by budgets, politics
and flight opportunities, provides an inside view of the
workings of the Astronaut Office and tells how the first
astronaut scientists and physicians pioneered the Science
officer role on the ISS.
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Space 50 (Hardcover) by Piers Bizony (October 2006)
This work includes a
foreword by Arthur C Clarke. The book explores the major
themes of rocket exploration, past, present and future,
and celebrates the first half-century of space
exploration. Specially selected images recall an age when
giant rockets were the last word in modernity, and
silver-suited astronauts were household names.
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Praxis Manned Spaceflight Log 1961-2006 by Tim
Furniss, David J. Shayler, Michael D. Shayler (January
2007)
Complete chronological log of all attempted
orbital manned spaceflights, including the X-15. Reference
to all manned spaceflights, the names astronauts and
cosmonauts who flew on each mission, and their roles and
accomplishments.
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Kennedy Space Center: Gateway to Space
by David West Reynolds (September 2006)
NASA's John F. Kennedy Center was the stage for the
American adventure in space. Sprawled across 140,000 acres
on Florida's Atlantic coast, it has hosted the succession
of rocket launches and illustrates its history. It is
clearly written, meticulously researched and packed with
150 spectacular full colour and archive photographs. It is
written by a leading expert in space exploration and the
author of the "New York Times" No.1 bestseller "Star Wars:
Episode 1, the Visual Dictionary".
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The Man Who
Ran the Moon: James E. Webb, NASA, and the Secret History
of Project Apollo
by Piers
Bizony (May 2007) James Webb
headed NASA from 1961 to 1968. He ran his end of the space
race as NASA's administrator under presidents Kennedy and
Johnson. Presiding over the agency during its build-up to
the Apollo moon mission, Webb grew the agency into a
research and development behemoth by leaning heavily on
the old boy network: he called in favors, brokered
backroom deals, bullied those who weren't in lockstep with
his vision and commandeered vast sums of federal budget
money. Interesting read.
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The Seven Secrets of How to
Think Like a Rocket Scientist (Hardcover) by
James Longuski (October 2006)
This book
explains the methods that rocket scientists use -
expressed in a way that could be applied in everyday life.
The book illustrates the methods (the 7 secrets) with
anecdotes, quotations and biographical sketches of famous
scientists, ideas from sci-fi, personal stories and
insights, and occasionally a bit of space history. The
author reveals that rocket science is just common sense
applied to the extraordinarily uncommon environment of
outer space and that rocket scientists are people, too.
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China's
Space Program - From Conception to Manned Spaceflight
by Brian Harvey (July
2004) In October 2003 Yang
Liwei made history as the first Chinese citizen in space,
orbiting the globe 14 times in the Shenzhou 5. The
Chinese space program has sometimes been called the last
of the secret space programs. Although it is far less
secretive now than formerly, fascinating revelations are
still being made. Brian Harvey examines the history of the
Chinese space program, from it's earliest times to the
historic breakthrough of manned flight.
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Satellite Orbits:
Models, Methods and Applications (Hardcover) by Oliver
Montenbruck, Eberhard Gill (September 2005)
Textbook guiding the student through
the theory and practice of satellite orbit prediction and
determination. The included CD-ROM provides and
supplements the exercises and applications with C++ codes
built around a space flight dynamics library suitable for
many applications.
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50 Years in Space: What We
Thought Then... What We Know Now (Paperback)
by Patrick Moore, David A.
Hardy (Illustrator) (October 2006)
Patrick Moore, one of the
world’s best-known astronomers and host of the BBC’s
record-breaking series The Sky at Night, joins
forces with celebrated “space artist” David Hardy in a
lavishly illustrated look at our evolving images of space.
Looking back to their 1972 classic, Challenge of the
Stars, Moore and Hardy show how early space art
sometimes proved amazingly prophetic—incorporating ideas
about spacecraft and space stations that would later come
true. They also show how some of the spectacular fantasies
of the ’70s gave way to realities more fantastic still,
such as the canyons of Mars, the geysers on Triton,
neutron stars, and black holes.
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Other
Space and Astronomy Books
Deep Sky Objects: The Best And Brightest
from Four Decades of Comet Chasing by David H Levy (November
2005)
From
Amazon.com,
Amazon.co.uk,
Amazon.ca
Great Observatories of the
World by Serge Brunier, Anne-Marie Lagrange
(September
2005)
From
Amazon.com
History Of Liquid Propellant
Rocket Engines by George P. Sutton
(November 2005)
From
Amazon.com,
Invisible Residents: The Reality
of Underwater UFOs (Paperback)
by Ivan T. Sanderson, David Hatcher Childress (Introduction)
(September 2005)
From
Amazon.com,
Spacecam: In Co-Operation With NASA
(Hardcover)
by Terry Hope (October 2005)
From
Amazon.com,
The Hatfield SCT Lunar Atlas :
Photographic Atlas for Meade, Celestron and other SCT Telescopes
(Hardcover) by Jeremy Cook
(August 2005)
From
Amazon.com,
The Living Universe: Nasa And the
Development of Astrobiology (Paperback) by Steven J. Dick, James
E. Strick (September 2005)
From
Amazon.com,
Top Secret/Majic : Operation
Majestic-12 and the United States Government's UFO Cover-up
(Paperback) by Stanton T. Friedman, Whitley Strieber (September
2005)
From
Amazon.com,
US Spacesuits
(Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration) by Kenneth S.
Thomas, Harold J. McMann (November 2005)
From
Amazon.com
Worlds on Fire : Volcanoes on the Earth,
the Moon, Mars, Venus and Io (Hardcover) by Charles Frankel (September 2005)
From
Amazon.com
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