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• DK Guide to Space

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• The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)

  Designing a mission for a flight to the Moon requires balancing the demands of a wide array of spacecraft systems, with the details of tending each component generating complex and often contradictory requirements. More than any other system in the Apollo spacecraft, the Apollo Guidance Computer drove the capabilities of the lunar missions. In the [...]

• History of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines

  To this date liquid propellant rocket engines have propelled all the manned space flights, all the space vehicles flying to the planets or deep space, virtually all satellites, and the majority of medium range or intercontinental range ballistic missiles. Furthermore forces or turning moments provided by liquid propellant rocket engines have almost universally controlled the [...]

• Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities: The Causes of Mass Extinctions

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