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paperback. This book focuses on each space mission launched between April 1971 and April 1981: from the launch of the world's first space station to the end of operations of Salyut 6, from the exploration of the Moon on Apollo 15 to the first flight of the Shuttle. Series: Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration. Num Pages: 548 pages, biography. BIC Classification: TTDS; WNX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 170 x 30. Weight in Grams: 910.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer/Sci-Tech/Trade United States
- Edition
- 2010th Edition
- Number of pages
- 548
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441963413
- ISBN
- 9781441963413
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.74€ 54.00
€ 57.74
€ 54.00
Paperback. This book explores the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1980s and early 1990s, with each attempting to outdo the other - the Americans keen to build a space station, the Soviets keen to build a space shuttle. Series: Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration. Num Pages: 631 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1KBB; TBX; TRP; TTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 168 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1073.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Number of pages
- 640
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781461434290
- ISBN
- 9781461434290
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.74€ 54.99
€ 57.74
€ 54.99
Paperback. This book covers US-Russian space efforts in the early to late 1990s, when relations between East and West began to improve and the foundations of harmony and co-operation were laid for the first time with Shuttle-Mir and the International Space Station. Series: Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration. Num Pages: 508 pages, 75 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJPR; TRP; TTDS; WNX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 177 x 20. Weight in Grams: 822.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 508
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781461432777
- ISBN
- 9781461432777
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 43.90
€ 48.99
€ 43.90
Paperback. At Home in Space explores both the individual missions within the decade and key challenges facing human space exploration, from the problems of simply breathing and eating in space to the difficulties of locomotion on the Moon. Series: Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration. Num Pages: 494 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, 49 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: TTDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 167 x 30. Weight in Grams: 798.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- 2012
- Number of pages
- 494
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441988096
- ISBN
- 9781441988096
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 43.98
€ 48.99
€ 43.98
Paperback. The focus here is on the 1960s, exploring each mission from April 1961 to April 1971 in depth: from the pioneering Vostok flights to the establishment of the first Salyut space station and from Alan Shepard's modest sub-orbital 'hop' into space to his triumphant arrival at the Moon's Fra Mauro foothills almost a decade later. Series: Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration. Num Pages: 512 pages, 170 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: TTDS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 26. Weight in Grams: 992.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780387790930
- ISBN
- 9780387790930
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 42.43
€ 48.99
€ 42.43
Paperback. This book details the stories of Challenger's missions from the points of view of the astronauts, engineers, and scientists who flew her and the managers, technicians, and ground personnel who created one of the most capable Shuttles in NASA's service. Series: Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration. Num Pages: 308 pages, 60 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: TTDS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 16. Weight in Grams: 1100.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780387463551
- ISBN
- 9780387463551
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 38.77
€ 41.99
€ 38.77
Paperback. Series: Springer-Praxis Books. Num Pages: 519 pages, 87 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; TTD; WNX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 168 x 29. Weight in Grams: 916.
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781493913060
- ISBN
- 9781493913060
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.52
€ 69.52
Paperback. This book shows how cosmogenic radionuclides can trace and reconstruct the history of a variety of processes. Demonstrates the strength of analytic tools based on cosmogenic radionuclides, and their potential use in solving present and future problems. Series: Physics of Earth and Space Environments. Num Pages: 444 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PHM; PHVG; RNQ; TQ; TTDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 444
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642431609
- ISBN
- 9783642431609
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 228.68
€ 228.68
Hardcover. This text is designed for teaching structural analysis of aerospace structures. It can be used for third and fourth year students in aerospace engineering as well as first and second year graduate students in aerospace and mechanical engineering. Series: Solid Mechanics and its Applications. Num Pages: 965 pages, biography. BIC Classification: TGB; TTDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 165 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1730.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Number of pages
- 966
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048125159
- ISBN
- 9789048125159
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.95
€ 108.95
Paperback. The first comprehensive book on the Soviet Energia/Buran programme in English. Tells the fascinating story of the effort designed to keep up with the United States in the Cold War in space. Provides information never before published in the West that has become available in the past fifteen years. Series: Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration. Num Pages: 552 pages, 170 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: TTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 169 x 29. Weight in Grams: 942.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Praxis
- Edition
- 2007th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780387698489
- ISBN
- 9780387698489
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 96.24€ 84.06
€ 96.24
€ 84.06
Paperback. This book provides a systematic treatment of shock waves in high-temperature collisionless plasmas as are encountered in near Earth space and astrophysics. It offers a unique and excellently illustrated course on shock wave physics and applications. Series: ISSI Scientific Report Series. Num Pages: 512 pages, 5 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: PHFP; PHVB; TTDS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 777.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781489990648
- ISBN
- 9781489990648
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 251.13
€ 251.13
Hardcover. "Previously published in Space Science Reviews Volume 173, issues 1-4, 2012." Editor(s): Balogh, Andre; Bykov, Andrei; Lin, Robert P.; Raymond, John; Scholer, Manfred. Series: Space Sciences Series of ISSI. Num Pages: 646 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PHFP; PHP; TTDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1228.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 648
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781461464549
- ISBN
- 9781461464549
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 200.19
€ 200.19
Paperback. This book offers comprehensive covers in particular the physics of the upper polar atmosphere, where the polar lights demonstrate the end product of a process taking place at extremely high latitudes between the solar wind and the upper polar atmosphere. Series: Springer Atmospheric Sciences. Num Pages: 412 pages, biography. BIC Classification: RB; TQ; TTDS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 168 x 21. Weight in Grams: 696.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 412
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642438905
- ISBN
- 9783642438905
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 195.37
€ 195.37
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 331
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781461437000
- ISBN
- 9781461437000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.93€ 47.95
€ 52.93
€ 47.95
Hardback. This monograph reviews the main results obtained by the scientific community in gyroscope technologies. It describes architectures, design techniques and fabrication technology of angular rate sensors and consideres future research trends. Num Pages: 125 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDDM; TDPB; TTDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 165 x 13. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 125
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642154935
- ISBN
- 9783642154935
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.02
€ 130.02
Paperback. Reviewing the nexus of climate change and astronomy, this book examines all the theories on the matter and argues that astronomical factors are the major determinant of the Earth's climate, adding key new analysis to an urgent and central contemporary debate. Series: Astronomers' Universe. Num Pages: 298 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 96 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PGS; RNPG; TTDS; WNX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781461446071
- ISBN
- 9781461446071
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 40.17
€ 48.99
€ 40.17
Hardcover. Provides the basics of spacecraft orbital dynamics plus attitude dynamics and control, using vectrix notation Spacecraft Dynamics and Control: An Introduction presents the fundamentals of classical control in the context of spacecraft attitude control. Num Pages: 588 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: TTDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 172 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1022.
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 592
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118342367
- ISBN
- 9781118342367
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.03
€ 105.03
Paperback. Series: SpringerBriefs in Space Development. Num Pages: 101 pages, 31 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: KCM; KJMV6; TRP; TTDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 6. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 101
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319189284
- ISBN
- 9783319189284
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 86.30
€ 86.30
Paperback. NASA's development of the F-1 engine made landing on the moon possible. This book chronicles the history of this amazing engine, from its design and manufacture to its eventual discarding at the conclusion of the Apollo program. Series: Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration. Num Pages: 336 pages, 90 black & white illustrations, 50 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: TTDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 171 x 20. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Publisher
- Praxis
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 2008th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780387096292
- ISBN
- 9780387096292
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.36€ 59.13
€ 67.36
€ 59.13
Behind the glories and tragedies that make headlines and move the nation, the story of the space shuttle is inextricably bound to the lesser-known drama of the search for a reusable single-stage-to-orbit rocket. In this book, Andrew J. Butrica tells this story. Series: New Series in NASA History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; TBX; TTDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801873386
- ISBN
- 9780801873386
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.44
€ 65.44