The world-famous Apollo 13 mission and dramatic explosion on the service module, captured in technical detail like you've never seen before. On April 13, 1970, NASA's Apollo 13 suffered a near-catastrophic explosion in space. The planned lunar landing that day was promptly called off, and a new chal[...]

The NASA Systems Engineering Handbook Rev 2
An updated edition of NASA's original engineering manual SP-2007-6105 with extensive use of boxes and figures to define, illustrate, and extend concepts in the chapters. This handbook provides top-level guidance for good systems engineering practices.<[...]

Launch your business to new heights with out-of-this world innovation. For over half a century, NASA has delivered a continuous stream of innovative accomplishments that have inspired the world. Neil Armstrong walking on the moon, the space shuttle pioneering reusable space planes, Mars rovers explo[...]

As the astronauts' home base and the site of Mission Control, the Johnson Space Center has witnessed some of America's most triumphant moments. This illustrated NASA history traces the center's development, from its origins through the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs and to shuttle missions and[...]

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 20th century's greatest flight achievement, this book chronicles how 400,000 men and women across the US worked to transport human beings across a quarter million miles of hostile space to an unexplored world, and how they ensured that the seven million engin[...]

NASA's Gemini space flight programme followed on from the pioneering Mercury missions which put the first US astronauts into space. The Gemini spacecraft was an agile flying machine for fighter pilots, which gave the US the tool it needed to fly into space, and in doing so prepared NASA to travel to[...]

The Hubble Space Telescope is an international venture primarily between the USA and Europe. More than any other space project, Hubble has encouraged an expanding interest in popular astronomy. With stunning views of the cosmos, it has inspired a new generation of enthusiasts to study the night sky [...]