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Mysteries of the Universe (Paperback): Peter Altman Mysteries of the Universe (Paperback)
Peter Altman
R656 Discovery Miles 6 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pluto Never Forget 1930-2006 - Record and Sketch Star Wheel Night Sky Backyard Star Gazing Planner (Paperback): Patricia Larson Pluto Never Forget 1930-2006 - Record and Sketch Star Wheel Night Sky Backyard Star Gazing Planner (Paperback)
Patricia Larson
R510 R419 Discovery Miles 4 190 Save R91 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
My Unicorn Astronomy Observation Notebook - Record and Sketch Star Wheel Night Sky Backyard Star Gazing Planner (Paperback):... My Unicorn Astronomy Observation Notebook - Record and Sketch Star Wheel Night Sky Backyard Star Gazing Planner (Paperback)
Patricia Larson
R510 R419 Discovery Miles 4 190 Save R91 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rocket Ranch - The Nuts and Bolts of the Apollo Moon Program at Kennedy Space Center (Paperback, 2015 ed.): Jonathan H. Ward Rocket Ranch - The Nuts and Bolts of the Apollo Moon Program at Kennedy Space Center (Paperback, 2015 ed.)
Jonathan H. Ward
R1,140 R1,060 Discovery Miles 10 600 Save R80 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Jonathan Ward takes the reader deep into the facilities at Kennedy Space Center to describe NASA's first computer systems used for spacecraft and rocket checkout and explain how tests and launches proceeded. Descriptions of early operations include a harrowing account of the heroic efforts of pad workers during the Apollo 1 fire. A companion to the author's book Countdown to a Moon Launch: Preparing Apollo for Its Historic Journey, this explores every facet of the facilities that served as the base for the Apollo/Saturn missions. Hundreds of illustrations complement the firsthand accounts of more than 70 Apollo program managers and engineers. The era of the Apollo/Saturn missions was perhaps the most exciting period in American space exploration history. Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center were buzzing with activity. Thousands of workers came to town to build the facilities and launch the missions needed to put an American on the Moon before the end of the decade. Work at KSC involved much more than just launching rockets. It was a place like none other on Earth. Technicians performed intricate operations, and hazards abounded everywhere, including lightning, fire, highly-toxic fuels, snakes, heat, explosives, LOX spills, and even plutonium. The reward for months of 7-day workweeks under intense pressure was witnessing a Saturn V at liftoff. For anyone who ever wished they had worked at Kennedy Space Center during the Apollo era, this book is the next best thing. The only thing missing is the smell of rocket fuel in the morning.

Backyard Star Observation Notebook - Record and Sketch Star Wheel Night Sky Backyard Star Gazing Planner (Paperback): Patricia... Backyard Star Observation Notebook - Record and Sketch Star Wheel Night Sky Backyard Star Gazing Planner (Paperback)
Patricia Larson
R510 R419 Discovery Miles 4 190 Save R91 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Future Backyard Astrophysicist - Record and Sketch Star Wheel Night Sky Backyard Star Gazing Planner (Paperback): Patricia... Future Backyard Astrophysicist - Record and Sketch Star Wheel Night Sky Backyard Star Gazing Planner (Paperback)
Patricia Larson
R510 R419 Discovery Miles 4 190 Save R91 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Kennedy Space Center (Paperback, Revised ed.): David West Reynolds Kennedy Space Center (Paperback, Revised ed.)
David West Reynolds
R597 Discovery Miles 5 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Praise for the hardcover edition:

"Extremely practical and enjoyable." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

" Will be] devoured by history or space enthusiasts from eight to eighty." -- VOYA

"The foreword grabbed me, and by the prologue I was hooked." -- The Science Teacher

NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center set the stage for the American adventure into space and went on to host a succession of rocket launches that have helped to form our understanding of the nature of the universe.

The Kennedy Space Center is a major tourist attraction in Florida, but most of its doors remain locked to the public. This abundantly illustrated book is an insider's history of the heart of America's space program, including detailed information on: The earliest development of rockets in the United States and Germany The development of rockets and their launch facilities The missile race and the U.S.-Soviet rivalry to be first in space The great Apollo program and the race to the moon The shuttle program, the Space Station and the Hubble Telescope The future of space exploration

"Kennedy Space Center" is clearly written, meticulously researched and packed with more than 150 spectacular images -- the one and only complete history of this important site.

Cosmic Visions - Galaxy Glasses Astronomy Visions Notebook (6x9) (Paperback): Shocking Journals Cosmic Visions - Galaxy Glasses Astronomy Visions Notebook (6x9) (Paperback)
Shocking Journals
R219 Discovery Miles 2 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ice Age - The Next Cycle of The Earth (Hardcover): Wayne Adams Ice Age - The Next Cycle of The Earth (Hardcover)
Wayne Adams
R799 Discovery Miles 7 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Flat Space Cosmology - A New Model of the Universe Incorporating Astronomical Observations of Black Holes, Dark Energy and Dark... Flat Space Cosmology - A New Model of the Universe Incorporating Astronomical Observations of Black Holes, Dark Energy and Dark Matter (Paperback)
Eugene Terry Tatum, U V S Seshavatharam
R1,037 Discovery Miles 10 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Distances of the Stars - And Other Essays on Astronomy (Paperback): Camille Flammarion Distances of the Stars - And Other Essays on Astronomy (Paperback)
Camille Flammarion
R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Conversations About Physics, Volume 2 (Paperback): Howard Burton Conversations About Physics, Volume 2 (Paperback)
Howard Burton
R584 Discovery Miles 5 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Vinyl Frontier - The Story of NASA's Interstellar Mixtape (Hardcover): Jonathan Scott The Vinyl Frontier - The Story of NASA's Interstellar Mixtape (Hardcover)
Jonathan Scott 1
R506 Discovery Miles 5 060 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'Bursts with gloriously geeky detail.' The Telegraph Have you ever made someone you love a mix-tape? Forty years ago, a group of scientists, artists and writers gathered in a house in Ithaca, New York to work on the most important compilation ever conceived. It wasn't from one person to another, it was from Earth to the Cosmos. In 1977 NASA sent Voyager 1 and 2 on a Grand Tour of the outer planets. During the design phase of the Voyager mission, it was realised that this pair of plucky probes would eventually leave our solar system to drift forever in the unimaginable void of interstellar space. With this gloomy-sounding outcome in mind, NASA decided to do something optimistic. They commissioned astronomer Carl Sagan to create a message to be fixed to the side of Voyager 1 and 2 - a plaque, a calling card, a handshake to any passing alien that might one day chance upon them. The result was the Voyager Golden Record, a genre-hopping multi-media metal LP. A 90-minute playlist of music from across the globe, a sound essay of life on Earth, spoken greetings in multiple languages and more than 100 photographs and diagrams, all painstakingly chosen by Sagan and his team to create an aliens' guide to Earthlings. The record included music by J.S. Bach and Chuck Berry, a message of peace from US president Jimmy Carter, facts, figures and dimensions, all encased in a golden box. The Vinyl Frontier tells the story of NASA's interstellar mix-tape, from first phone call to final launch, when Voyager 1 and 2 left our planet bearing their hopeful message from the Summer of '77 to a distant future.

Boom! - The Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, and Earthly Mayhem that Shook our Universe (Paperback): Bob Berman Boom! - The Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, and Earthly Mayhem that Shook our Universe (Paperback)
Bob Berman 1
R311 R255 Discovery Miles 2 550 Save R56 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Looking at the night sky, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s all quiet up there in space. But you’d be wrong. Extreme events are forever unfolding: galaxies explode, cosmic debris hurtles through the heavens and our own Milky Way is on a collision course with the giant Andromeda galaxy.

Mayhem moulded the cosmos, shaped life on Earth and at times threatened to end it. With an enduring sense of wonder, through cataclysms great and small, Bob Berman presents a destructive history of our universe.

Living with the Stars - How the Human Body is Connected to the Life Cycles of the Earth, the Planets, and the Stars... Living with the Stars - How the Human Body is Connected to the Life Cycles of the Earth, the Planets, and the Stars (Paperback)
Karel Schrijver, Iris Schrijver
R451 Discovery Miles 4 510 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Living with the Stars tells the fascinating story of what truly makes the human body. The body that is with us all our lives is always changing. We are quite literally not who we were years, weeks, or even days ago: our cells die and are replaced by new ones at an astonishing pace. The entire body continually rebuilds itself, time and again, using the food and water that flow through us as fuel and as construction material. What persists over time is not fixed but merely a pattern in flux. We rebuild using elements captured from our surroundings, and are thereby connected to animals and plants around us, and to the bacteria within us that help digest them, and to geological processes such as continental drift and volcanism here on Earth. We are also intimately linked to the Sun's nuclear furnace and to the solar wind, to collisions with asteroids and to the cycles of the birth of stars and their deaths in cataclysmic supernovae, and ultimately to the beginning of the universe. Our bodies are made of the burned out embers of stars that were released into the galaxy in massive explosions billions of years ago, mixed with atoms that formed only recently as ultrafast rays slammed into Earth's atmosphere. All of that is not just remote history but part of us now: our human body is inseparable from nature all around us and intertwined with the history of the universe.

Den Nachthimmel erleben - Sonne, Mond und Sterne - Praktische Astronomie zum Anfassen (German, Hardcover, 2015 ed.): Arnold... Den Nachthimmel erleben - Sonne, Mond und Sterne - Praktische Astronomie zum Anfassen (German, Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Arnold Hanslmeier
R1,013 Discovery Miles 10 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Dieses Buch zeigt, wie spannend Astronomie sein kann. Mit einfachen Beobachtungen kann man wichtige Fragen der Menschheit eroertern: Wie ist das Universum entstanden und wo ist unser Platz darin? Der Leser erhalt praktische Informationen, um die Faszination des Nachthimmels selbst zu erleben: Welches Teleskop ist geeignet, welche Details lassen sich damit auf den Himmelskoerpern erkennen u.v.m.. Der Autor beschreibt die Planetenbewegungen und wann selbige zu beobachten sind. Tipps zur Fotografie der Himmelskoerper mit Digitalkameras oder Webcams werden ebenfalls gegeben. Neben Anleitungen zu eigenen Beobachtungen erhalt der Leser auch astrophysikalisches Hintergrundwissen zu den Fragen "Wie entstehen Sterne und Planeten?", "Gibt es auf den neu gefundenen Exoplaneten Leben?" und "Was ist Dunkle Materie?". Mit diesem Buch werden die Wunder des Universums rasch zu einer Freude. Aber Vorsicht: Sternegucken kann suchtig machen.

Future Astronomer - Record and Sketch Star Wheel Night Sky Backyard Star Gazing Planner (Paperback): Patricia Larson Future Astronomer - Record and Sketch Star Wheel Night Sky Backyard Star Gazing Planner (Paperback)
Patricia Larson
R510 R419 Discovery Miles 4 190 Save R91 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Astronomy is Heavenly - A Fun Guide to Its History and Beauty (Paperback): Randy Rhea Astronomy is Heavenly - A Fun Guide to Its History and Beauty (Paperback)
Randy Rhea
R979 R794 Discovery Miles 7 940 Save R185 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Canada Total Eclipse Guide (LARGE PRINT) - Commemorative Official 2024 Keepsake Guidebook (Paperback, Canada ed.): Aaron Linsdau Canada Total Eclipse Guide (LARGE PRINT) - Commemorative Official 2024 Keepsake Guidebook (Paperback, Canada ed.)
Aaron Linsdau
R318 Discovery Miles 3 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Canada Total Eclipse Guide (LARGE PRINT) - Commemorative Official 2024 Keepsake Guidebook (Hardcover, Canada ed.): Aaron Linsdau Canada Total Eclipse Guide (LARGE PRINT) - Commemorative Official 2024 Keepsake Guidebook (Hardcover, Canada ed.)
Aaron Linsdau
R571 Discovery Miles 5 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Canada Total Eclipse Guide - Commemorative Official 2024 Keepsake Guidebook (Hardcover, Canada ed.): Aaron Linsdau Canada Total Eclipse Guide - Commemorative Official 2024 Keepsake Guidebook (Hardcover, Canada ed.)
Aaron Linsdau
R543 Discovery Miles 5 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Flipping The Narrative - A Pragmatic Approach To Flat Earth Cosmology (Hardcover): Veronykah Spencer Flipping The Narrative - A Pragmatic Approach To Flat Earth Cosmology (Hardcover)
Veronykah Spencer; Illustrated by M K Lebaron
R925 R759 Discovery Miles 7 590 Save R166 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Enjoying Space through the Hubble Lens - Nebulae, Galaxies, and More (Paperback): Catherine McGrew Jaime Enjoying Space through the Hubble Lens - Nebulae, Galaxies, and More (Paperback)
Catherine McGrew Jaime
R281 Discovery Miles 2 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Celestial Calculations - A Gentle Introduction to Computational Astronomy (Paperback): J. L Lawrence Celestial Calculations - A Gentle Introduction to Computational Astronomy (Paperback)
J. L Lawrence
R1,049 R785 Discovery Miles 7 850 Save R264 (25%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How to predict and calculate the positions of stars, planets, the sun, the moon, and satellites using a personal computer and high school mathematics. Our knowledge of the universe is expanding rapidly, as space probes launched decades ago begin to send information back to earth. There has never been a better time to learn about how planets, stars, and satellites move through the heavens. This book is for amateur astronomers who want to move beyond pictures of constellations in star guides and solve the mysteries of a starry night. It is a book for readers who have wondered, for example, where Saturn will appear in the night sky, when the sun will rise and set, or how long the space station will be over their location. In Celestial Calculations, J. L. Lawrence shows readers how to find the answers to these and other astronomy questions with only a personal computer and high school math. Using an easy-to-follow step-by-step approach, Lawrence explains what calculations are required, why they are needed, and how they all fit together. Lawrence begins with basic principles: unit of measure conversions, time conversions, and coordinate systems. He combines these concepts into a computer program that can calculate the location of a star, and uses the same methods for predicting the locations of the sun, moon, and planets. He then shows how to use these methods for locating the many satellites we have sent into orbit. Finally, he describes a variety of resources and tools available to the amateur astronomer, including star charts and astronomical tables. Diagrams illustrate the major concepts, and computer programs that implement the algorithms are included. Photographs of actual celestial objects accompany the text, and interesting astronomical facts are interspersed throughout. Source code (in Python 3, JAVA, and Visual Basic) and executables for all the programs and examples presented in the book are available for download at https://CelestialCalculations.github.io.

Protostars and Planets v. 5 (Hardcover): Bo Reipurth, David Jewitt, Klaus Keil Protostars and Planets v. 5 (Hardcover)
Bo Reipurth, David Jewitt, Klaus Keil
R2,891 Discovery Miles 28 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Increasing discoveries of new planets beyond our solar system are invigorating the quest for new knowledge and understanding of the birth of stars and planets. This new volume in the Space Science Series, with 249 contributing authors, builds on the latest results from recent advances in ground and space-based astronomy and in numerical computing techniques to offer the most detailed and up-to-date picture of star and planet formation, including the formation of our own solar system. This book emphasizes the cross-disciplinary aspects of the field, with a particular focus on the early evolution of our solar system. Protostars and Planets V is the new foundation for further advancement in the fields of stellar and planetary formation, making it an indispensable resource for researchers and students in astronomy, planetary science, and the study of meteorites.

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