"Drawing on NASA archives, top-secret documents from the former Soviet Union, and frank interviews with cosmonauts and astronauts, space mission insider David Whitehoue creates an absorbing history, packed full of previously unpublished revelations. From a top-ranking shuttle co…
Explains how to observe stars with the naked eye and how to understand what is seen. Discuses the difference between astronomy and astrology.
Biographical note: Professor Erik M. Galimov, Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russia; Professor Anton M. Krivtsov, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia. Main description: The origin of the Moon remains an unsolved problem of the pl…
The origin of the Moon remains an unsolved problem of the planetary science. Researchers engaged in celestial dynamics, geophysics, and geochemistry are still discussing various models of creation of our closest cosmic neighbour. The most popular scenario, the impact hypothesis …
This book carries out approximate estimates of the costs of implementing ISRU on the Moon and Mars. It is found that no ISRU process on the Moon has much merit. ISRU on Mars can save a great deal of mass, but there is a significant cost in prospecting for resources and validatin…