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PublicAffairs Escape from Earth: A Secret History of the Space
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Chicago Review Press The Astronaut Maker: How One Mysterious Engineer
Book Synopsis One of the most elusive and controversial figures in NASA’s history, George W. S. Abbey was called “the Dark Lord,” “the Godfather,” and “UNO”—short for unidentified NASA official. He was said to be secretive, despotic, a Space Age Machiavelli. Yet Abbey had more influence on human spaceflight than almost anyone in history. His story has never been told—until now. The Astronaut Maker takes readers inside NASA to learn the real story of how Abbey rose to power, from young pilot and wannabe astronaut to engineer, bureaucrat, and finally director of the Johnson Space Center. During a thirty-seven-year career, mostly out of the spotlight, he oversaw the selection of every astronaut class from 1978 to 1987, deciding who got to fly and when. He was with the Apollo 1 astronauts the night before the fatal fire in January 1967. He was in mission control the night of the Apollo 13 accident and organized the recovery effort. Abbey also led NASA’s recruitment of women and minorities as space shuttle astronauts and was responsible for hiring Sally Ride. Written by Michael Cassutt, the coauthor of the acclaimed astronaut memoirs DEKE! and We Have Capture, and informed by countless hours of interviews with Abbey and his family, friends, adversaries, and former colleagues, The Astronaut Maker is the ultimate insider’s account of ambition and power politics at NASA.Trade Review"NASA buffs will be fascinated by this profile of an undervalued figure whose most significant legacy, Cassutt concludes, was at the human levelmaking 'spaceflight available to all, regardless of citizenship, gender, color, or ethnic background.'" - Publishers Weekly"The real book about the manned space program would be a book about George Abbey." Richard Truly, former astronaut and administrator of NASA
£24.26
Experiment Diary of an Apprentice Astronaut
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£13.99
Aviation Supplies & Academics Inc Inspection Authorization Test Prep
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£73.58
American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics Launching into Commercial Space: Innovations in
Book SynopsisPreviously available in Kindle format only, Launching Into Commercial Space chronicles the dawn of a fast-moving commercial space age in which initiative from the private sector is launching innovation into tomorrow. With the door closed on the Space Shuttle-era, the revolutionary commercial ""Space Billionaires"" of the 21st century are opening a new door. This is the story of the pioneers and private companies around the globe currently developing new spacecraft, planning futuristic spaceports, and seeking to offer a range of ""space travel"" services for all. Features the history, accomplishments, and future endeavors of: Paul Allen, Stratolaunch Systems, Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin, Robert Bigelow, Bigelow Aerospace, Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic, John Carmack, Armadillo Aerospace, Elon Musk, Space X. Focuses on the companies expanding their commercial space activities, including: Alliant ATK, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Orbital Sciences Corporation, Sierra Nevada Corporation, Space X, Stratolauncher, Virgin Galactic.
£33.95
American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics Advanced Aircraft Flight Performance: Including
Book SynopsisIn recent years there has been a renaissance in the field of aircraft flight performance with a number of developments centering mostly on environmental performance, sustainability, digitization, large data sets, integration with flight monitoring systems, and novel power plants – just to name a few. The aviation industry is now acutely aware of the climate emergency, and aircraft performance is now intrinsically linked to emissions.The availability of increasingly large amounts of digital data from on-board computers (flight data recorder, FADEC), data transmission to ground stations, internet streaming of flight data, and various web applications have created a wealth of performance data that would have been inconceivable just a few years ago. With advances in these two directions, as well as new engine technology (high by-pass turbofan engines, counter-rotating open rotors), this revised and updated second edition of Advanced Aircraft Flight Performance features significant updates throughout, along with three new chapters. About one-third of the material now deals with environmental performance.Trade ReviewProfessor Antonio Filippone‘s Advanced Aircraft Flight Performance book, now in its second edition, is a classic in the field. Any student, aerospace engineer or scientist should have a copy in their library".4-Star Doody Review-Prof Laurent DalaCEng FRAeS, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Northumbria University
£97.85
America Through Time Airport Airside at Bwi: Baltimore-Washington
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£22.09
Chicago Review Press The Astronaut Maker: How One Mysterious Engineer
Book Synopsis One of the most elusive and controversial figures in NASA’s history, George W. S. Abbey was said to be secretive, despotic, a Space Age Machiavelli. Yet Abbey had more influence on human spaceflight than almost anyone in history. His story has never been told—until now. The Astronaut Maker takes readers inside NASA to learn the real story of how Abbey rose to power, from young pilot and wannabe astronaut to engineer, bureaucrat, and finally director of the Johnson Space Center. During a thirty-seven-year career, mostly out of the spotlight, he oversaw the selection of every astronaut class from 1978 to 1987, deciding who got to fly and when. He was with the Apollo 1 astronauts the night before the fatal fire in January 1967. He was in mission control the night of the Apollo 13 accident and organized the recovery effort. Abbey also led NASA’s recruitment of women and minorities as space shuttle astronauts and was responsible for hiring Sally Ride. The Astronaut Maker is the ultimate insider’s account of ambition and power politics at NASA.
£16.10
Aviation Supplies & Academics Navigating Weather: A Pilot's Guide to Airborne
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£35.96
Aviation Supplies & Academics Inc Aviation Mechanic Handbook
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£23.70
Aviation Supplies & Academics Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge
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£31.30
Aviation Supplies & Academics Dictionary of Aeronautical Terms
£31.83
Aviation Supplies & Academics Aircraft Inspection Repair and Alterations 2025
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£43.56
Archway Publishing A Century of Aerospace History
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£33.20
Kane/Miller Book Publishers I Like Space ... What Jobs Are There?
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£15.19
Cornerstone Columbus in Space: A Voyage of Discovery on the
Book SynopsisIn 2008, Europe’s first space laboratory was launched to the International Space Station. Ten years later, the Columbus laboratory is still circling 400 km above our heads at 28,800 km/h, providing scientists a place to run out-of-this-world experiments on everything from cold plasma technology that will destroy unwanted odours to enzymes that may slow the ageing process. To celebrate a decade of European science and technology in space this stunning book recounts the story of the Columbus laboratory from vision to mission, revealing everything from the daily operations that keep it humming, to the cutting-edge science that takes place inside. Richly illustrated with graphics and statistics of life and research in space as well as full-colour photos, Columbus in Space offers a never-seen-before glimpse into the laboratory at the forefront of humanity’s exploration of our Universe -- Europe's space in space.Trade ReviewColumbus was my home in space, a little piece of Europe on the International Space Station -- ESA Astronaut Thomas PesquetColumbus is without a doubt a fantastic technological achievement -- a shining star of European cooperation! -- ESA astronaut Thomas ReiterAny chance to fly in space is a rare privilege. But it was even more special to be a part of the crew that delivered the Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station -- NASA astronaut Stan Love
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Flight Formation Control
Book SynopsisIn the last decade the development and control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has attracted a lot of interest. Both researchers and companies have a growing interest in improving this type of vehicle given their many civilian and military applications. This book presents the state of the art in the area of UAV Flight Formation. The coordination and robust consensus approaches are presented in detail as well as formation flight control strategies which are validated in experimental platforms. It aims at helping students and academics alike to better understand what coordination and flight formation control can make possible. Several novel methods are presented: - controllability and observability of multi-agent systems; - robust consensus; - flight formation control; - stability of formations over noisy networks; which generate solutions of guaranteed performance for UAV Flight Formation. Contents 1. Introduction, J.A. Guerrero. 2. Theoretical Preliminaries, J.A. Guerrero. 3. Multiagent Coordination Strategies, J.A. Guerrero, R. Lozano, M.W. Spong, N. Chopra. 4. Robust Control Design for Multiagent Systems with Parametric Uncertainty, J.A. Guerrero, G. Romero. 5. On Adaptive and Robust Controlled Synchronization of Networked Robotic Systems on Strongly Connected Graphs, Y.-C. Liu, N. Chopra. 6. Modeling and Control of Mini UAV, G. Flores Colunga, J.A. Guerrero, J. Escareño, R. Lozano. 7. Flight Formation Control Strategies for Mini UAVs, J.A. Guerrero. 8. Formation Based on Potential Functions, L. García, A. Dzul. 9. Quadrotor Vision-Based Control, J.E. Gomez-Balderas, J.A. Guerrero, S. SALAZAR, R. Lozano, P. Castillo. 10. Toward Vision-Based Coordination of Quadrotor Platoons, L.R. García Carrillo, J.A. Guerrero, R. Lozano. 11. Optimal Guidance for Rotorcraft Platoon Formation Flying in Wind Fields, J.A. Guerrero, Y. Bestaoui, R. Lozano. 12. Impact of Wireless Medium Access Protocol on the Quadrotor Formation Control, J.A. Guerrero, Y. Challal, P. Castillo. 13. MAC Protocol for Wireless Communications, A. Mendez, M. Panduro, O. Elizarraras, D. Covarrubias. 14. Optimization of a Scannable Pattern for Bidimensional Antenna Arrays to Provide Maximum Performance, A. Reyna, M.A. Panduro, A. Mendez.Trade Review“Overall this book delivers necessary backgrounds, basic and advanced nonlinear control algorithms and the associated challenges such as visual navigation and communication for those who are interested in studying and developing UAV formation flight strategies with guaranteed stability and performance.” (The Aeronautical Journal, 3 February 2015)Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction 1 J.A. GUERRERO 1.1. Motivation 1 1.2. Historical background 4 1.3. Flight control 9 1.4. Flight formation control 11 1.5. Outline of the book 13 1.6. Bibliography 15 Chapter 2. Theoretical Preliminaries 19 J.A. GUERRERO 2.1. Passivity 19 2.2. Graph theory 20 2.3. Robustness problems 21 2.4. Bibliography 25 Chapter 3. Multiagent Coordination Strategies 27 J.A. GUERRERO, R. LOZANO, M.W. SPONG, N. CHOPRA 3.1. Introduction 28 3.2. Controllability and observability of interconnections 28 3.3. Formation leader tracking 37 3.4. Time-varying trajectory tracking 40 3.5. Linear high-order multiagent consensus 44 3.6. Conclusion 49 3.7. Bibliography 50 Chapter 4. Robust Control Design of Multiagent Systems with Parametric Uncertainty 51 J.A. GUERRERO, G. ROMERO 4.1. Introduction 52 4.2. Robust control design 54 4.3. Robust stability analysis 56 4.4. Robust stability of time-delay systems 61 4.5. Application to multiagent systems 62 4.6. Conclusions 73 4.7. Bibliography 73 Chapter 5. On Adaptive and Robust Controlled Synchronization of Networked Robotic Systems on Strongly Connected Graphs 75 Y.-C. LIU, N. CHOPRA 5.1. Summary 75 5.2. Introduction 75 5.3. Problem formulation 77 5.4. Adaptive controlled synchronization on strongly connected graphs 79 5.5. Robust controlled synchronization on strongly connected graph 83 5.6. Numerical examples 87 5.7. Conclusions 93 5.8. Appendix 94 5.9. Bibliography 95 Chapter 6. Modeling and Control of Mini UAV 99 G. FLORES COLUNGA, J.A. GUERRERO, J. ESCAREÑO, R. LOZANO 6.1. Introduction 99 6.2. General model 101 6.3. Control of a mini tailsitter 103 6.4. Quad-tilting rotor convertible MAV 117 6.5. Concluding remarks 131 6.6. Bibliography 132 Chapter 7. Flight Formation Control Strategies for Mini UAVs 135 J.A. GUERRERO 7.1. Introduction 135 7.2. Formation geometry 137 7.3. Communication network 138 7.4. Dynamic model 139 7.5. Formation flying control based on coordination 142 7.6. Formation flying control based on nested saturations 148 7.7. Trajectory-tracking control 153 7.8. Simulation results 158 7.9. Conclusions 162 7.10. Bibliography 162 Chapter 8. Formation Based on Potential Functions 165 L. GARCÍA, A. DZUL 8.1. Introduction 165 8.2. Dynamical model 166 8.3. Formation control 167 8.4. Position control 170 8.5. Simulation results 183 8.6. Conclusions 189 8.7. Bibliography 189 Chapter 9. Quadrotor Vision-Based Control 191 J.E. GOMEZ-BALDERAS, J.A. GUERRERO, S. SALAZAR, R. LOZANO, P. CASTILLO 9.1. Introduction 191 9.2. Quadrotor dynamic model and control 194 9.3. Computer vision preliminaries 197 9.4. Tracking of a visual target 201 9.5. Tracking of a visual line 209 9.6. Embedded architecture 214 9.7. Experimental results 214 9.8. Conclusions 221 9.9. Bibliography 221 Chapter 10. Toward Vision-Based Coordination of Quadrotor Platoons 225 L.R. GARCÍA CARRILLO, J.A. GUERRERO, R. LOZANO 10.1. Introduction 225 10.2. Problem statement 227 10.3. Dynamic model and control of a quadrotor 228 10.4. Vision-based position estimation 229 10.5. Coordination position control of two quadrotors 235 10.6. Architecture of the experimental platforms 237 10.7. Experimental results 240 10.8. Conclusions and future work 242 10.9. Bibliography 243 Chapter 11. Optimal Guidance for Rotorcraft Platoon Formation Flying in Wind Fields 247 J.A. GUERRERO, Y. BESTAOUI, R. LOZANO 11.1. Introduction 247 11.2. Preliminaries 250 11.3. Path planning 251 11.4. Quadrotor formation control scheme 258 11.5. Quadrotor trajectory-tracking control 258 11.6. Simulation results 259 11.7. Conclusions and future work 264 11.8. Bibliography 264 Chapter 12. Impact of Wireless Medium Access Protocol on the Quadrotor Formation Control 267 J.A. GUERRERO, Y. CHALLAL, P. CASTILLO 12.1. Introduction 267 12.2. Multiquadrotor consensus 269 12.3. Multiagent consensus over wireless networks 272 12.4. Quadrotor consensus over wireless networks 275 12.5. Simulation results 278 12.6. Conclusions and future work 282 12.7. Bibliography 282 Chapter 13. MAC Protocol for Wireless Communications 285 A. MENDEZ, M. PANDURO, O. ELIZARRARAS, D. COVARRUBIAS 13.1. Introduction 285 13.2. Protocols of medium access control 287 13.3. Proposed MAC protocol 296 13.4. Experimental setup and results 299 13.5. Conclusions 300 13.6. Acknowledgments 301 13.7. Bibliography 301 Chapter 14. Optimization of a Scannable Pattern for Bidimensional Antenna Arrays to Provide Maximum Performance 305 A. REYNA, M.A. PANDURO, A. MENDEZ 14.1. Introduction 305 14.2. Design of planar antenna arrays 306 14.3. Design of concentric ring arrays 314 14.4. Discussions and open problems 319 14.5. Conclusions 320 14.6. Acknowledgments 320 14.7. Bibliography 320 List of Authors 323 Index 325
£135.80
Crecy Publishing Vertical Take-Off Fighter Aircraft
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£29.41
ATF Press L'Impossible Pour Horizon: L'Essence de
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£36.95
ATF Press Ethics Handbook for the Space Odyssey
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£19.95
Smithsonian Books Spacefarers: Images of Astronauts and Cosmonauts
Book SynopsisThe recent 50th anniversaries of the first human spaceflights by the Soviet Union and the United States, and the 30th anniversary of the launching of the first U.S. Space Shuttle mission, have again brought to mind the pioneering accomplishments of the first quarter century of humans in space. Historians, political scientists and others have extensively examined the technical, programmatic and political history of human spaceflight from the 1960s to the 1980s, but work is only beginning on the social and cultural history of the pioneering era. One rapidly developing area of recent scholarship is the examination of the images of spacefarers in the media, government propaganda and popular culture. How was space travel imagined in the visual media on the cusp of human spaceflights? How were astronauts and cosmonauts represented in official and quasi-official media portraits? And how were those images reproduced and transformed by in the imagination of film-makers, movie producers, popular writers, and novelists? Spacefarers addresses these questions with nine contributions from scholars in the field of aerospace history, Russian and American history, and English literature. These essays are preceded by an introduction by the editor, who discusses their place in the historiography of spaceflight and social and cultural history. The book will have potential appeal to a wide variety of scholars in history, literature and the social sciences and will include a number of striking visual images.
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Editorial Juventud, S.A. Nuestra vela latina
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£34.89
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El futuro de la humanidad / The Future of
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£32.33
