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From Space to Earth
Berndt Feuerbacher
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Description for From Space to Earth
Num Pages: 320 pages, 402 color & 43 b/w photos. BIC Classification: PG; TTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 223 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1546. The Laboratory and Marketplace. 320 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: PG; TTD. Dimension: 286 x 223 x 29. Weight: 1546.
Fifty years have changed our view of space. The spin-off technologies from the world's space programs have an ever increasing influence on our daily lives. While early spaceflights were mainly nationalistic demonstrations of power, today a wide range of scientific or technological objectives are carried out in space through international cooperation. Commercial missions are also funded by the private sector. Space is now a scientific laboratory, a marketplace, and a workplace. This book describes the latest developments in spaceflight and looks toward humanity's future beyond Earth. Over 400 vivid color photos and illustrations present spaceflight's past, present, and future. Complex ... Read more
Fifty years have changed our view of space. The spin-off technologies from the world's space programs have an ever increasing influence on our daily lives. While early spaceflights were mainly nationalistic demonstrations of power, today a wide range of scientific or technological objectives are carried out in space through international cooperation. Commercial missions are also funded by the private sector. Space is now a scientific laboratory, a marketplace, and a workplace. This book describes the latest developments in spaceflight and looks toward humanity's future beyond Earth. Over 400 vivid color photos and illustrations present spaceflight's past, present, and future. Complex ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764337765
SKU
V9780764337765
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99-2
About Berndt Feuerbacher
Prof. Dr. Berndt Feuerbacher has spent over 30 years in active space research and has carried out a number of experiments in the space laboratory (Spacelab) aboard the Space Shuttle and on satellite platforms. In 1985, Prof. Dr. Ernst Messerschmid was a scientist-astronaut conducting research on the D1 "Spacelab" mission aboard the Space Shuttle.
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