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Not Necessarily Rocket Science: A Beginner’s Guide to Life in the Space Age

Autor: Kellie Gerardi

Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons

Autor: George Pendle

The Transit of Venus: The Brief, Brilliant Life of Jeremiah Horrocks, Father of British Astronomy

Autor: Peter Aughton

Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

Autor: Eric Berger

The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel's Astronomical Ambition

Autor: Claire Brock

Discoverers of the Universe: William and Caroline Herschel

Michael Hoskin

The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

Leonard Susskind

Confessions of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Seth Shostak

Since the first Martian "canals" were charted in 1877, space aliens have captivated skygazers, night travelers, and television-watchers worldwide. Polls show that nearly half of all Americans believe in extraterrestrials, and many are convinced they've visited Earth. A fair number of scientists also suspect that aliens exist, and for decades they've been seriously searching - using powerful antennas and computers to scan for radio waves coming from other star systems. This engaging memoir reveals the true story of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ( S E T I), and discloses what we may very soon discover.

Chronicling the program's history with insight and humor, S E T I senior astronomer Seth Shostak assures us that if there is sentient life in the universe, we are within decades of picking up its signal. Methodically busting urban legends about alien crash landings, crop circles, and the like, Shostak pits scientific truth against speculation and delivers important news on the state of our knowledge. He answers a host of questions about S E T I, including where its antennas are aimed. . . how we know which frequency to monitor. . . what our response might be. . . and why, if a signal is detected, "it will be one that's deliberately beamed into space, not the Klingon equivalent of I Love Lucy. "

Contrary to popular opinion, any aliens found by S E T I will not resemble the squishy, big-eyed creatures on cinema screens. Rather, they will have already invented their successors: super smart post-biological thinking machines vastly beyond our own capabilities.

Edgy, amusing, and remarkably profound, Confessions of an Alien Hunter addresses the startling possibilities awaiting us in deep space and in humankind's own future.

Home Is Where the Wind Blows: Chapters from a Cosmologist's Life

Fred Hoyle

China's Transition to Modernity

Minghui Hu

Galileo: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Stillman (formerly Professor of the History of Science, formerly Professor of the History of Science, University of Toronto) Drake

How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight

Julian Guthrie, Richard Branson - preface, Stephen Hawking - afterword

The historic race that reawakened the promise of manned spaceflight.

Alone in a Spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill rocketed toward space. He had 80 seconds to exceed the speed of sound and begin the climb to a target no civilian pilot had ever reached. He might not make it back alive. If he did, he would make history as the world's first commercial astronaut.

The spectacle defied reason, the result of a competition dreamed up by entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, whose vision for a new race to space required small teams to do what only the world's largest governments had done before.

Peter Diamandis was the son of hardworking immigrants who wanted their science prodigy to make the family proud and become a doctor. But from the age of eight, when he watched Apollo 11 land on the moon, his singular goal was to get to space. When he realized N A S A was winding down manned space flight, Diamandis set out on one of the great entrepreneurial adventure stories of our time. If the government wouldn't send him to space, he would create a private space-flight industry himself.

In the 1990s this idea was the stuff of science fiction. Undaunted, Diamandis found inspiration in an unlikely place: the golden age of aviation. He discovered that Charles Lindbergh made his transatlantic flight to win a $25, 000 prize. The flight made Lindbergh the most famous man on earth and galvanized the airline industry. Why, Diamandis thought, couldn't the same be done for space flight?

The story of the bullet-shaped Space Ship One and the other teams in the hunt is an extraordinary tale of making the impossible possible. It is driven by outsized characters - Burt Rutan, Richard Branson, John Carmack, Paul Allen - and obsessive pursuits. In the end, as Diamandis dreamed, the result wasn't just a victory for one team; it was the foundation for a new industry and a new age.

Tycho Brahe: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary Astronomer Who Mentored Johannes Kepler

Charles River Editors

" That the machine of Heaven is not a hard and impervious body full of various real spheres, as up to now has been believed by most people. It will be proved that it extends everywhere, most fluid and simple, and nowhere presents obstacles as was formerly held, the circuits of the Planets being wholly free and without the labour and whirling round of any real spheres at all, being divinely governed under a given law. " ( Tycho Brahe)

A mystical dwarf jester gifted with the second sight. A pet elk with an incurable addiction to booze. A kidnapping in broad daylight. A daunting dictator who dines with kings and princes in his miniature kingdom. These may seem like characters and elements lifted straight out of a medieval fantasy novel, but they are just a few of the bizarre, fascinating episodes that make up Tycho Brahe's strange life. Of all the stories, Brahe's death may be the strangest of all, and it has led to the exhumation of his corpse on multiple occasions, in one case more than 400 years after he died.

As interesting as the stories about Brahe are, chances are he wouldn't be remembered if not for the important work he did, especially in the realm of astronomy. He lived in an era when the intellectual worldview of most in Northern Europe was medieval in nature, influenced mostly by spirituality, mysticism, religion, and metaphysics. Brahe, however, was far-thinking in his outlook, taking advantages of the latest technological ideas and practicing empiricism to revolutionize the field of science. This work eventually led Brahe to cross paths with Johannes Kepler, whose laws on planetary motion would change everything.  

Tycho Brahe: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary Astronomer Who Mentored Johannes Kepler examines the life and work that made him one of history's most important scientists. You will learn about Tycho Brahe like never before.

Leap of Faith: An Astronaut's Journey Into the Unknown

Gordon Cooper, Bruce Henderson

Off the Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard the Space Station Mir

Jerry M. Linenger

Introducing Stephen Hawking: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides) (English Edition)

Autor: J.P. McEvoy
Illustrator: Oscar Zarate

Galileo (English Edition)

Autor: John L. Heilbron