The universe is in a period of accelerated expansion; and the observational evidence such as supernova of Ia type, Cosmic Microwave Background radi...

World renown astronomer and Quaker Jocelyn Bell Burnell reflects on the big issues confronting scientists who also have a strong spiritual belief s...

Adaptive optics is a field which is coming into its own with new discoveries occurring almost daily both in astronomy and in applications of AO in ...

This is the sequel to Robert Adamcik's highly praised "Voyages of Discovery". In this volume, Mr Adamcik takes you to the flight deck of NASA's you...

The Apollo Advanced Lunar Exploration Planning book was one of the principal resources used by NASA in the 1960s to plan for long term lunar explor...

Apollo Memories is the personal memoir of Dr W. David Carrier, one of the scientists who prepared the Apollo astronauts to do science on another wo...

Book & DVD-ROM. The Apollo lunar surface photos are a national treasure, scenes which should be seen by everyone through the eyes of the photog...

It has been said that the Apollo Program was the greatest human achievement since the construction of the pyramids in Egypt. It was certainly one o...

The Ultra Rare and Coveted Apollo News Reference Manuals. These books have become legendary amongst the space collecting fraternity and have been k...

With the bulk of asteroids floating in space between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, astronomers puzzle over where these rocks came from. Are they ...

This title offers a critical comparison between scientific facts versus ancient religious teachings, superstition and writings, written at a time w...

Galaxies are the basic unit of cosmology. The study of galaxy formation is concerned with the processes that formed a heterogeneous universe from a...

This guide to celestial navigation has been popular ever since it first appeared in 1969. Revised in 1982, Celestial Navigation is a quick, easy, a...

This two-volume set is an essential reference work dedicated to clock companies that have kept time for us from the late 1600s through the early 20...

Clock synchronisation is the backbone of applications such as high-accuracy satellite navigation, geolocation, space-based interferometry, and cryp...

David H. Levy, the science columnist for PARADE magazine, who took over Carl Sagan's post, is one of the world's foremost astronomers and a contrib...

At a May 1981 ''Proseminar in Space History''held at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum (NASM) in Washington, DC, historia...

When you look up at a midnight sky, what do you see—mottled stars and a full Moon trying hard to compete with the street lamps for your attention? ...

Dust is ubiquitous in the universe and responsible for stellar and planetary formation. Virtually all previous studies have considered the dust par...

Exploration of Space Issues & Status

On 4 October 1957 the science of astronautics was thrust into the limelight when the first artificial satellite went into orbit around the Earth. P...

A black hole is a point of extreme mass in space-time with a radius, or event horizon, inside of which all electromagnetic radiation (including lig...

Foreword to Spaceflight provides a long-anticipated update to Michael L. Ciancone’s acclaimed book The Literary Legacy of the Space Age. This updat...

This book is aimed at helping those that are interested in learning about some of the analytical methods used for the study of the formation of dar...