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• Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: An Autobiography

  Designed to convey the awe of a visitor first walking into the world’s largest showplace of aviation history, this Autobiography headlines the incredible collections, both on view and behind the scenes, of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. The official story and insiders’ tales of the museum are shared by its curators, the people [...]

• Setting-Up a Small Observatory: From Concept to Construction (Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series)

  This is the book to tell the intermediate-level amateur astronomer what he needs to know about observatories. It draws on the author’s practical experience and that of many other experienced amateur astronomers. It is an ideal complement to Patrick Moore’s More Small Astronomical Observatories which is a compendium of ideas for different observatory designs. Setting-up [...]

• Mars’ Magnetism, and Its Interaction with the Solar Wind: An Integration of Mars Global Surveyor and Phobos Mission Data (Space Sciences Series of ISSI)

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