Explorer was the original American space program and Explorer 1 its first satellite, launched in 1958. Sixty years later, it is the longest continuously running space program in the world...
Le 2 juin dernier, le Français Thomas Pesquet, 38 ans, astronaute, rentrait sur Terre après avoir passé 6 mois dans la Station spatiale internationale. La réalisation d'un rêve d'enfant pour ce...
This comprehensive handbook provides an overview of space technology and a holistic understanding of the system-of-systems that is a modern spacecraft.. With a foreword by Elon Musk, CEO and CTO...
More than 50 years ago, pioneering scientists and engineers in the Soviet Union and the United States searched for a technical means of defense against deadly ballistic missiles. In Intercept 1961...
La France a-t-elle abandonné ses ambitions spatiales ? A première vue, ce n'est pas le cas : le Livre blanc de la Défense et de la Sécurité nationale de 2013 invite toujours à considérer l'Espace...
This comprehensive handbook provides an overview of space technology and a holistic understanding of the system-of-systems that is a modern spacecraft.. With a foreword by Elon Musk, CEO and CTO...
The nascent commercial suborbital spaceflight industry will soon open the space frontier to commercial astronauts, payload specialists, scientists and of course, tourists. This book describes the...
April 12, 2011 was the 50th Anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering journey into space. To commemorate this momentous achievement, Springer-Praxis has produced a mini-series of books that reveals...