No one knows how the universe will end -- but we do have a pretty good idea how it started. Everyone is familiar with the 'Big Bang' theory, but mo...

An informative sidekick to Stan Shadick's annual award-winning Skywatchers calendars, Skywatcher's Companion presents fascinating stories for skywa...

This book will be the first English on space law written by a Chinese scholar. With the rapid development of space activities in China, many space ...

Space exploration is an immense and expanding field. The quest for knowledge about space has resulted in hundreds of very important technologies wh...

This book presents a wide spectrum of in-depth analyses detailing the US space program including policy, the space stations, the shuttles, and spac...

CD-ROM and Book. The Space Shuttle is one of the great triumphs of modern technology. 122 feet long, capable of carrying 65,000 pounds of cargo and...

Welcome Aboard! Space is only 100 miles away from anywhere on Earth. Since the early 1980s a small group of visionaries have been pioneering the fr...

What city turned its lights on and off to signal an astronaut? Which astronaut was born in China? Who got the first haircut in space? Which Shuttle...

Space transportation is one of the most essential elements for enabling activities in space. For current rockets, reliability is too low and launch...

This is a comprehensive new guide to space systems and exploration in the 21st century. Spanning a broad range of disciplines the reader can find o...

In 1938 a committee of the British Interplanetary Society drew up the first serious plans for a manned lunar spacecraft. The BIS moon ship would be...

Project Manhigh took humans to the threshold of space using balloons. In the 1950s, a small band of Air Force doctors were on the cutting edge of t...

There are all kinds of cool careers in space exploration! Astronauts are the superstars of space, but there are thousands of other women and men be...

Recounted through a well-selected collection of photographs, this discussion relates a succession of advancements and risk taking, chronicling the ...