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  Chief engineer Thomas J. Kelly gives a firsthand account of designing, building, testing, and flying the Apollo lunar module. It was, he writes, “an aerospace engineer’s dream job of the century.” Kelly’s account begins with the imaginative process of sketching solutions to a host of technical challenges with an emphasis on safety, reliability, and maintainability. [...]

• The secret of Anubis

  The ancient Egyptians view of astronomy is the birthstone to our modern view upon astrology. Ancient Greece was the last culture, which was able to understand the forgotten language of the great pharaohs. Anubis is said to be the Egyptian god of the dead, but there might be more to his character. The most popular [...]

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• Voyager’s Grand Tour: To the Outer Planets and Beyond (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight Series)

  A rare planetary alignment, a visionary team, and two space probes transform our knowledge of the solar system Every 176 years, Earth and the outer planets gather on one side of the sun, allowing close observation in a single flight, or Grand Tour. To exploit this alignment, the Voyager team developed the so-called gravity assist [...]

• The Cosmic War: Interplanetary Warfare, Modern Physics and Ancient Texts

  This work presents the full history of the Exploded Planet hypothesis. There is ample evidence across our solar system of cataclysmic and catastrophic destruction events, and many planets are scarred from incredible impacts, and teeter in their orbits from unexplained causes. Rejecting naturalist and materialist assumptions of catastrophism forwarded by other researchers, Farrell seriously asserts [...]