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Apollo
By: Orloff, Richard W.; Harland, David M.
Published by: Springer
On 25 May 1961, John F Kennedy announced the goal of landing an American man on the Moon by the end of the decade. This challenge forced NASA to review the planned lunar landing of a three-man spaceship named Apollo in the mid-1970s. In 1962, it was decided that a specialized vehicle would accompany the main spacecraft, to make the lunar landing while the mothership remained in lunar orbit. To send these vehicles to the Moon would require the development of an enormous rocket. Development was protracted, but in December 1968 Apollo 8 was launched on a pioneering mission to perform an initial reconnaissance in lunar orbit. When Apollo 17 lifted off from the Moon in December 1972, the program was concluded. Now, at long last, there is a real prospect of a resumption of human exploration of the Moon. This book provides an overview of the origins of the Apollo program and descriptions of the ground facilities, launch vehicles and spacecraft that will serve as an invaluable single-volume sourcebook for space enthusiasts, space historians, journalists, and programme-makers on radio and TV. It supplements other books that have focused on the politics and management of the Apollo program, the astronauts, and their training and exploits.
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Price: $54.95
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Astronomical Optics
By: Schroeder, Daniel J.
Published by: Academic Press (Elsevier Science & Technology Books)
This book provides a unified treatment of the characteristics of telescopes of all types, both those whose performance is set by geometrical aberrations and the effect of the atmosphere, and those diffraction-limited telescopes designed for observations from above the atmosphere. The emphasis throughout is on basic principles, such as Fermat's principle, and their application to optical systems specifically designed to image distant celestial sources. The book also contains thorough discussions of the principles underlying all spectroscopic instrumentation, with special emphasis on grating instruments used with telescopes. An introduction to adaptive optics provides the needed background for further inquiry into this rapidly developing area.
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Price: $130.00
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Astronomical Spectroscopy
By: Tennyson, Jonathan
Published by: Imperial College Press
Nearly all the information we know about the Universe comes from the
study of light as it reaches us. The understanding of this information
contained in light requires both telescopes capable of resolving light
into its different component colors, as well as detailed knowledge of
the quantum mechanical behavior of atoms and molecules.
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Price: $67.60
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Astronomy Methods
By: Bradt, Hale
Published by: Cambridge University Press
An introduction to basic practical tools, methods and phenomena that underlie quantitative astronomy.
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Price: $56.00
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Astrophysical disks
By: Fridman, Alexei M. (ed.); Marov, Mikhail Ya. (ed.); Kovalenko, Ilya G. (ed.)
Published by: Springer
Deals with collective and stochastic processes in astrophysical disks involving theory, observations, and the results of modelling. This book examines the spiral-vortex structure in galactic and accretion disks, stochastic and ordered structures in the developed turbulence.
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Price: $189.00
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Astrophysics of Life
By: Livio, Mario; Reid, Neill; Sparks, William; Fall, Michael
Published by: Cambridge University Press
A new title in the Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium series which details the astrophysical groundwork required for locating habitable places in the Universe. Written by leading scientists in the field, this is an indispensable collection of articles for research.
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Price: $94.00
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