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  • America’s Space Futures

    Defining Goals for Space Exploration

    America’s Space Futures is an important contribution to the ongoing debate about space policy, the American space program, and the human destiny in space. It lays out alternative paradigms and frameworks for assessing America’s future in space and how different visions would require changes to America’s current approach to space development and exploration. Since the end of the Apollo program in ... Leer más

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  • The Kill Chain

    Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

    From a former senior advisor to Senator John McCain comes an urgent wake-up call about how new technologies are threatening America's military might.For generations of Americans, our country has been the world's dominant military power. How the US military fights, and the systems and weapons that it fights with, have been uncontested. That old reality, however, is rapidly deteriorating. America's ... Leer más

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  • Mission to Mars

    My Vision for Space Exploration

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Boeing Versus Airbus

    de John Newhouse ...
    The commercial airline industry is one of the most volatile, dog-eat-dog enterprises in the world, and in the late 1990s, Europe’s Airbus overtook America’s Boeing as the preeminent aircraft manufacturer. However, Airbus quickly succumbed to the same complacency it once challenged, and Boeing regained its precarious place on top. Now, after years of heated battle and mismanagement, both companies ... Leer más

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  • Trekonomics

    The Economics of Star Trek

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    "Manu Saadia has managed to show us one more reason, perhaps the most compelling one of all, why we all need the world of Star Trek to one day become the world we live in." — Chris Black, Writer and Co-Executive Producer, Star Trek: EnterpriseWhat would the world look like if everybody had everything they wanted or needed? Trekonomics, the premier book in financial journalist Felix Salmon's ... Leer más

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  • Mars Direct

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Escaping Gravity

    My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age

    de Lori Garver ...
    A former NASA deputy administrator recounts how she battled greed and corruption to revolutionize the agency and usher in a new space age.Escaping Gravity is former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver's firsthand account of how a handful of revolutionaries overcame the political patronage and bureaucracy that threatened the space agency. The success of Elon Musk's SpaceX, Jeff Bezos's Blue ... Leer más

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  • Is There Time?

    Is there time to avoid humanity's extinction? Practically everything that has ever lived is extinct; we will be no exception unless we work very hard to be an exception. Wrestling with that problem led to a chilling, undeniable conclusion: the human species is ultimately doomed on Earth and we have no plan.The Earth will eventually become uninhabitable and moving people off Earth is the only ... Leer más

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  • Rocket Billionaires

    Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race

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  • The Secret of Apollo

    Systems Management in American and European Space Programs

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    "Skillfully interweaving technical details and fascinating personalities, Johnson tells the history of systems management in the U.S. and Europe." —Howard McCurdy, author of Space and the American ImaginationWinner of the Emme Award for Astronautical Literature from the American Astronautical SocietyHow does one go about organizing something as complicated as a strategic-missile or space ... Leer más

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  • Spaceflight in the Shuttle Era and Beyond

    Redefining Humanity's Purpose in Space

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Next Crash

    How Short-Term Profit Seeking Trumps Airline Safety

    de Amy L. Fraher ...
    If you are one of over 700 million passengers who will fly in America this year, you need to read this book. The Next Crash offers a shocking perspective on the aviation industry by a former United Airlines pilot. Weaving insider knowledge with hundreds of employee interviews, Amy L. Fraher uncovers the story airline executives and government regulators would rather not tell. While the FAA claims ... Leer más

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