26 February 2018
Moon – Owners’ Workshop Manual
...Moon?’ is a question often heard in space law sessions at international conferences. The ... via a potted history of famous astronomers, to lunar missions through the Space Age. The book is well illustrated in colour and monochrome which, along with...
November 2019
Mexico’s path to space
...be done in an affordable way, where international collaboration must be at the heart of the inclusion of this region in the space age.” By bringing IAC to the Latin American Region, AEM started a new era of international collaboration to solve common...
11 October 2018
ISRO: a personal history
... felt more like the Count of Monte Cristo imprisoned on an island.” His account of the challenges involved in operating a Space Age facility in an area known for its migratory birds and “huge and vicious… feral bees” (which built...
June 2019
Solar superstorms and their effects on Earth
... is 10 times a B1 flare and an X45 flare is 45 times an X1). For comparison, the largest X-ray flare recorded during the Space Age was the 4 November 2003 event estimated at about X35. Location of eyewitness accounts (orange dots) and magnetometer...
29 March 2018
North American X-15 Owners’ Workshop Manual
...flight log, along with a useful index. In common with other space-related ‘workshop manuals’ in the series, it is well illustrated... impression that the test pilots and astronauts of the early Space Age were made from a different – and long-ago-broken ...
December 2017
Dressing up for space
... that can be filled and carried in a very unobtrusive way. The style of clothing recalled the start of the Space Age in the 1960s by Pierre Cardin and André Courreges, with shapes and volumes of pockets reminiscent of lunar craters...
