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30-Second Space Travel
50 key ideas, inventions, and destinations that have inspired humanity toward the heavens
This book is available to read until 31st December, 2025
- 160 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 31 Dec |Learn more
30-Second Space Travel
50 key ideas, inventions, and destinations that have inspired humanity toward the heavens
About this book
As Space X works to reduce the barriers of access to space and Virgin Galactic forges a path to commercial spaceflight for the masses, we have begun to cross the realms of science fiction into the reality of humans viewing the cosmos with their own eyes. Part of an internationally bestselling series, 30-Second Space Travel sees a team of expert astronomers hand-pick the 50 most exciting topics and essential concepts in the field of space exploration and break down each subject into an easily accessible summary that takes just half a minute to understand. Beginning with Galileo and the early telescope explorers of the Renaissance, via the physics of orbital mechanics and the Apollo and Sputnik missions of the Space Race, and on to a future of space tourism and planetary colonisation, this book will open up a whole universe of space travel and leave you eager to research the field in more depth.
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INDEX
A
- air resistance 40
- Akatsuki probe 144
- Alcubierre Moya, Miguel 148
- Alcubierre’s model 148
- Aldrin, Edwin ‘Buzz’ 62, 86, 102, 113
- Almaz space station 110
- Ames, Joseph 90
- Ames Research Center 90, 92
- Anders, Bill 102
- Apollo guidance computer (AGC) 80
- Apollo missions 18, 44, 47, 56, 58, 60, 62, 64, 66, 76, 80, 82, 118
- Apollo 1 60, 62
- Apollo 8 62, 102
- Apollo 11 27, 46, 47, 62, 102
- Apollo 12 112, 113
- Apollo 13 46, 62
- Apollo 17 62
- Apollo-Soyuz Test Project 64
- Apple 80
- Arecibo Message 132
- Ariane rockets 40
- Armstrong, Neil 62, 86, 113
- Astérix 58
- asteroids 16, 124, 144
- Astronaut Twin Study 100
- astronautics 44
- astronauts: clothing 86, 104, 106
- living in space 94–113
- Atlantis 66
- Atlas rockets 40, 58
- atmosphere 100, 104, 110
B
- Baikonur Cosmodrome 64, 76
- Bernal, Joh...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Origins of Space Travel
- Physics of Space Travel
- The Space Race
- Space Travel Today
- Living in Space
- Destinations for Space Travel
- The Future of Space Travel
- Appendices
- Resources
- Notes on Authors
- Index
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright