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  • Faster, Better, Cheaper

    Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program

    by Howard E. McCurdy ...
    Series series New Series in NASA History
    "This excellent summary of an important part of NASA's history is recommended for all readers." — ChoiceIn Faster, Better, Cheaper: Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program, Howard E. McCurdy examines NASA's recent efforts to save money while improving mission frequency and performance. McCurdy details sixteen missions undertaken as the twentieth century drew to a close—including an orbit of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Robots In Space

    Technology, Evolution, and Interplanetary Travel

    by Howard E. McCurdy, Roger D Launius ...
    Series series New Series in NASA History
    A look into the history of space exploration and its possible future, and just where exactly robotics fit into it all.Given the near incomprehensible enormity of the universe, it appears almost inevitable that humankind will one day find a planet that appears to be much like the Earth. This discovery will no doubt reignite the lure of interplanetary travel. Will we be up to the task? And, given ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Faster, Better, Cheaper

    Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program

    by Howard E. McCurdy ...
    Series series New Series in NASA History
    In Faster, Better, Cheaper: Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program, Howard E. McCurdy examines NASA's recent efforts to save money while improving mission frequency and performance. McCurdy details the sixteen missions undertaken during the 1990s—including an orbit of the moon, deployment of three space telescopes, four Earth-orbiting satellites, two rendezvous with comets and asteroids, ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Financing the New Space Industry

    Breaking Free of Gravity and Government Support

    by Howard E. McCurdy ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This Palgrave Pivot investigates the efforts of five aerospace companies—SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, Orbital Sciences, and the Boeing Company—to launch their entry into the field of commercial space transportation. Can private sector firms raise enough capital to end the usual dependence on government funding? What can historical examples of other large-scale transportation initiatives, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • NASA Spaceflight

    A History of Innovation

    Edited by Roger D. Launius, Howard E. McCurdy ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book presents the first comprehensive history of innovation at NASA, bringing together experts in the field to illuminate how public-private and international partnerships have fueled new ways of exploring space since the beginning of space travel itself. Twelve case studies trace the messy, risky history of such partnerships, exploring the role of AT&T in the early development of satellite ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • The Space Station Decision

    Incremental Politics and Technological Choice

    by Howard E. McCurdy ...
    Series series New Series in NASA History
    Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleOutstanding Academic Title, 1991, Choice MagazineAlthough building a space station has been an extraordinary challenge for America's scientists and engineers, the securing and sustaining of presidential approval, congressional support, and long-term funding for the project was an enormous task for bureaucrats. The Space Station Decision ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

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  • Mission to Mars

    My Vision for Space Exploration

    by Buzz Aldrin, Leonard David ...
    Can astronauts reach Mars by 2035? Absolutely, says Buzz Aldrin, one of the first men to walk on the moon. Celebrated astronaut, brilliant engineer, bestselling author, Aldrin believes it is not only possibly but vital to America's future to keep pushing the space frontier outward for the sake of exploration, science, development, commerce, and security. What we need, he argues, is a commitment by ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Mars Direct

    Space Exploration, the Red Planet, and the Human Future: A Special from Tarcher/Penguin

    by Robert Zubrin ...
    “Bob Zubrin really, nearly alone, changed our thinking on this issue.”—Carl Sagan, The Denver PostIf you ever daydream about space travel and human space flight—or hope to one day rove the Red Planet alongside Curiosity—then MARS DIRECT will teach you how we can get thereThe human race is at a crossroads. In the coming decades, we will make decisions regarding our human spaceflight program that ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Moon Rush

    The New Space Race

    by Leonard David ...
    Veteran space journalist digs into the science and technology--past, present, and future--central to our explorations of Earth's only satellite, the space destination most hotly pursued today.In these rich pages, veteran science journalist Leonard David explores the moon in all its facets, from ancient myth to future "Moon Village" plans. Illustrating his text with maps, graphics, and photographs, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Spaceflight in the Shuttle Era and Beyond

    Redefining Humanity's Purpose in Space

    by Valerie Neal ...
    An exploration of the changing conceptions of the Space Shuttle program and a call for a new vision of spaceflight.The thirty years of Space Shuttle flights saw contrary changes in American visions of space. Valerie Neal, who has spent much of her career examining the Space Shuttle program, uses this iconic vehicle to question over four decades' worth of thinking about, and struggling with, the ... Read more

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  • The Value of the Moon

    How to Explore, Live, and Prosper in Space Using the Moon's Resources

    by Paul D. Spudis ...
    While the Moon was once thought to hold the key to space exploration, in recent decades, the U.S. has largely turned its sights toward Mars and other celestial bodies instead. In The Value of the Moon, lunar scientist Paul Spudis argues that the U.S. can and should return to the moon in order to remain a world leader in space utilization and development and a participant in and beneficiary of a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Exploration and Engineering

    The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars

    by Erik M. Conway ...
    Series series New Series in NASA History
    Getting to Mars required engineering genius, scientific strategy, and the drive to persevere in the face of failure.Although the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has become synonymous with the United States’ planetary exploration during the past half century, its most recent focus has been on Mars. Beginning in the 1990s and continuing through the Mars Phoenix mission of 2007, ... Read more

    $29.49 USD