Exploring the Moon Through Binoculars and Small Telescopes

Exploring the Moon Through Binoculars and Small Telescopes
Title Exploring the Moon Through Binoculars and Small Telescopes PDF eBook
Author Ernest H. Cherrington
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 244
Release 1984-01-01
Genre Science
ISBN 9780486244914

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Informative, profusely illustrated guide to locating and identifying craters, rills, seas, mountains, other lunar features. Newly revised and updated with special section of new photos. Over 100 photos and diagrams. "Extraordinary delight awaits the amateur astronomer or teacher who opens this book." — The Science Teacher.

Return to the Moon

Return to the Moon
Title Return to the Moon PDF eBook
Author Harrison Schmitt
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 346
Release 2007-12-28
Genre Science
ISBN 0387310649

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Former NASA Astronaut Harrison Schmitt advocates a private, investor-based approach to returning humans to the Moon—to extract Helium 3 for energy production, to use the Moon as a platform for science and manufacturing, and to establish permanent human colonies there in a kind of stepping stone community on the way to deeper space. With governments playing a supporting role—just as they have in the development of modern commercial aeronautics and agricultural production—Schmitt believes that a fundamentally private enterprise is the only type of organization capable of sustaining such an effort and, eventually, even making it pay off.

Exploring the Moon

Exploring the Moon
Title Exploring the Moon PDF eBook
Author David M. Harland
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 447
Release 2008-04-16
Genre Science
ISBN 0387746412

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In this comprehensive overview of Man’s relationship with his planet’s nearest neighbor, David Harland opens with a review of the robotic probes, namely the Rangers which returned television before crashing into the Moon, the Surveyors which 'soft landed' in order to investigate the nature of the surface, and the Lunar Orbiters which mapped prospective Apollo landing sites. He then outlines the historic landing by Apollo 11 and the final three missions of comprehensive geological investigations. He concludes with a review of the robotic spacecraft that made remote-sensing observations of the Moon. This Commemorative Edition includes a foreword by one of the original astronauts as well as an extra section reviewing the prospect of renewed exploration there. New graphics and images are also included.

Lunar Sourcebook

Lunar Sourcebook
Title Lunar Sourcebook PDF eBook
Author Grant Heiken
Publisher CUP Archive
Pages 796
Release 1991-04-26
Genre Science
ISBN 9780521334440

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The only work to date to collect data gathered during the American and Soviet missions in an accessible and complete reference of current scientific and technical information about the Moon.

Forging the Future of Space Science

Forging the Future of Space Science
Title Forging the Future of Space Science PDF eBook
Author National Research Council
Publisher National Academies Press
Pages 166
Release 2010-03-08
Genre Science
ISBN 0309215897

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From September 2007 to June 2008 the Space Studies Board conducted an international public seminar series, with each monthly talk highlighting a different topic in space and Earth science. The principal lectures from the series are compiled in Forging the Future of Space Science. The topics of these events covered the full spectrum of space and Earth science research, from global climate change, to the cosmic origins of life, to the exploration of the Moon and Mars, to the scientific research required to support human spaceflight. The prevailing messages throughout the seminar series as demonstrated by the lectures in this book are how much we have accomplished over the past 50 years, how profound are our discoveries, how much contributions from the space program affect our daily lives, and yet how much remains to be done. The age of discovery in space and Earth science is just beginning. Opportunities abound that will forever alter our destiny.

Exploring the Moon

Exploring the Moon
Title Exploring the Moon PDF eBook
Author Steve Massey
Publisher New Holland Publishers
Pages 0
Release 2004
Genre Moon
ISBN 9781741102024

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In Exploring the Moon, Steve unveils the history of the Moon and its various characteristics and effects on the Earth and its living creatures. He describes the bold Cold War missions of Russia and the United States as they raced one another to the Moon and looks at the resulting science that has helped to expand our knowledge of the Moon and its make-up. Steve also takes us on a nightly journey along the Moon

The Moon

The Moon
Title The Moon PDF eBook
Author Oliver Morton
Publisher The Economist
Pages 339
Release 2019-06-04
Genre Science
ISBN 154176806X

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An intimate portrait of the Earth's closest neighbor--the Moon--that explores the history and future of humankind's relationship with it Every generation has looked towards the heavens and wondered at the beauty of the Moon. Fifty years ago, a few Americans became the first to do the reverse--and shared with Earth-bound audiences the view of their own planet hanging in the sky instead. Recently, the connection has been discovered to be even closer: a fragment of the Earth's surface was found embedded in a rock brought back from the Moon. And astronauts are preparing to return to the surface of the Moon after a half-century hiatus--this time to the dark side. Oliver Morton explores how the ways we have looked at the Moon have shaped our perceptions of the Earth: from the controversies of early astronomers such as van Eyck and Galileo, to the Cold War space race, to the potential use of the Moon as a stepping stone for further space exploration. Advanced technologies, new ambitions, and old dreams mean that men, women, and robots now seem certain to return to the Moon. For some, it is a future on which humankind has turned its back for too long. For others, an adventure yet to begin.