Science and Technics / Science / Astronomy

The Survival Imperative

by William E. Burrows

Using Space to Save Earth

Veteran science journalist William E Burrows offers a bold new mission for the U.S. space program: to protect the Earth from the ever-growing number of perils that threaten our way of...

Star Peace

by Ben Bova

Star Peace (originally published in 1986) is a novel by Ben Bova, the author of more than a hundred works of science fact and fiction.

At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights...

Out of the Sun

by Ben Bova

Out of the Sun is a novel by Ben Bova, one of the field's leading writers of "hard science fiction."

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When Biospheres Collide

by Michael Meltzer

This book presents the history of planetary protection by tracing the responses to the concerns on NASA's missions to the Moon, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and many smaller bodies of our solar system.

The...

NASA's 50 Year Proceedings

by Stephen J. Dick

On 29 July 1958. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which became operational on 1 October of that...

Cosmos and Culture

by Stephen J. Dick & Mark Lupisella

Authors with diverse backgrounds in science, history, anthropology, and more, consider culture in the context of cosmos.

How does our knowledge of cosmic evolution affect terrestrial culture? Conversely, how...

The Problem of Space Travel

by Herman Potočnik Noordung

Herman Potocnik Noordung’s ‘Inhabitable Wheel’.

In 1929, an Austro-Hungarian - Slovene called Herman Potocnik published a book under the pseudonym of ‘Noordung’. The book was Das Problem der Befahrung...