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• The Secret of Apollo: Systems Management in American and European Space Programs (New Series in NASA History)

  How does one go about organizing something as complicated as a strategic-missile or space-exploration program? Stephen B. Johnson here explores the answer—systems management—in a groundbreaking study that involves Air Force planners, scientists, technical specialists, and, eventually, bureaucrats. Taking a comparative approach, Johnson focuses on the theory, or intellectual history, of “systems engineering” as such, its [...]

• The Constellations: Stars & Stories

  The sky is a clear, glittering site where constellations (88 of them) form “provinces.” It’s not always easy to find the different groups, but this illustrated guidebook will lead you through the stars and make gazing at them a more meaningful experience. Begin with two larger maps that portray the entire northern and southern sky, [...]

• Water on Mars and Life (Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics)

  Growing evidence, based on observations from orbiters, landers and telescopes, indicates that Mars may still have numerous hidden water reservoirs. Moreover, from the point of view of habitability, Mars is a prime target for astrobiologists in search of extant or extinct microbial life because we know that life exists in earth?s permafrost regions, such as [...]

• Galileo’s Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror

  The Dutch telescope and the Italian scientist Galileo have long enjoyed a durable connection in the popular mind–so much so that it seems this simple glass instrument transformed a rather modest middle-aged scholar into the bold icon of the Copernican Revolution. And yet the extraordinary speed with which the telescope changed the course of Galileo’s [...]

• Earth travel

  Earth has three motions. It spin  like a top approximately an imaginary line called an axis that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole, it travels approximately the sun, and it moves through the Milky Way along with the sun and the take it easy of the solar system. Earth takes 24 hours [...]