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Longer on biography than on technology, this account of the first space farers will appeal to spaceflight buffs. And in a subject densely populated with memoirs by its principal figures, French and Burgess have generated new material from their own interviews with some of the pioneering astronauts and cosmonauts. In addition, the authors incorporate the recollections of nurse Dee O’Hara, who worked with the Mercury astronauts, and of American aviatrixes involved in (more…)

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Longer on biography than on technology, this account of the first space farers will appeal to spaceflight buffs. And in a subject densely populated with memoirs by its principal figures, French and Burgess have generated new material from their own interviews with some of the pioneering astronauts and cosmonauts. In addition, the authors incorporate the recollections of nurse Dee O’Hara, who worked with the Mercury astronauts, and of American aviatrixes involved in (more…)

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Marketingwise, it was probably irresistible–a book on spaceflight by a guy named Tribble. Oh, c’mon, you remember the warm fuzzballs from the classic Star Trek episode “The Trouble with Tribbles.” This book’s core audience remembers, and shouldn’t have any trouble reading this Tribble (the furry ones didn’t write). A Rockwell International rocket scientist, he proves well able to explain the basics of spaceflight concisely and clearly, right up to the early stages (more…)

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Marketingwise, it was probably irresistible–a book on spaceflight by a guy named Tribble. Oh, c’mon, you remember the warm fuzzballs from the classic Star Trek episode “The Trouble with Tribbles.” This book’s core audience remembers, and shouldn’t have any trouble reading this Tribble (the furry ones didn’t write). A Rockwell International rocket scientist, he proves well able to explain the basics of spaceflight concisely and clearly, right up to the early stages (more…)

The Air Force’s transition from a threat-based to a capabilities-based planning posture suggests the need to calculate swiftly the manpower and equipment required to generate those capabilities. This book outlines just such a methodology for determining deployment requirements. The methodology employs a prototype research tool–the Strategic Tool for the Analysis of Required Transportation (START)–which generates lists of capability units required to support a user-specified o (more…)

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Heating water with the sun is almost as old as humankind itself, and it is done all over the world. Yet there are strangely few resources on the topic in North America. Solar Water Heating fills this gap. It reviews the history of solar water and space heating systems from prehistory to the present, then presents the basics of solar water heating, including an introduction to modern solar energy systems, energy conservation and energy economics. Drawing on the author’s experi (more…)

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Our new 2010 Portable Infrared PTC Heater model BH-2009 incorporates the latest energy saving, safety, and heating technology. As a result of it’s PTC heating element, our heater is 40% more energy efficient than most traditional space heaters on the market today. Instead of heating the air in your room, infrared heat heats objects in your room first, which in turn radiate the absorbed heat back into the room. The benefit to this technology is you feel more comfortable in a room (more…)

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