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Finding the Shape of Space - Future Space Situational Awareness (SSA) Technologies Preserving U.S. Military Freedom of Action in Space, Full Motion Video, Networks, Scramjet Access, Carbon Nanotubes
by Progressive Management
Price:
$7.99 USD.
Words: 55,560.
Language:
English.
Published: September 8, 2016.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Engineering, trades, and technology » Aeronautics & Astronautics, Nonfiction » History » Military
This excellent report, professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, is concerned with the direction space technologies will take over the next 20-30 years.
Hardwired, Episode One
by Walter Jon Williams
Price:
Free!
Words: 24,590.
Language:
English.
Published: August 5, 2014.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » Cyberpunk, Fiction » Science fiction » Apocalyptic
(5.00)
Earth lies prostrate beneath the lash of the Orbital powers. But now, if the criminal underworld and the guerilla underground can join forces, there is a chance to shift the balance of power— in a war fought on the ground by hardwired commandos, in the air by high-flying deltajocks, and by genius hackers in the neural interface.
Orbital Kin
by James E. Parsons
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 133,390.
Language:
Unknown language.
Published: July 31, 2013 by
Austin Macauley.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » General
After an unusual disease breaks out and begins to threaten the country, a group of postgraduate students at a British university focus their research upon it, aiming to find out the cause and the cure.
The experimentations move out to space stations soon enough, in hope of a cure being produced while more mysterious events take place.
Habitats (an Ell Donsaii story #7)
by Laurence E Dahners
Series: The Ell Donsaii stories, Book 7.
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 68,330.
Language:
English.
Published: May 24, 2013.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » High tech, Fiction » Science fiction » Hard sci-fi
(5.00)
“Habitats" is the seventh in a series of near future SciFi/Thrillers whose young
heroine has a nerve mutation making her a genius and an athletic phenomenon.
In “Habitats,” she is still finding uses for the wormholes she discovered. After a friend lost his hand, Ell uses ports to build better prostheses for amputees! Meanwhile, her small company is trying to build a habitat in space.
Space Primer (AU-18): Comprehensive Spaceflight History and Guidebook, Doctrine, Orbital Mechanics, Military Space, Satellites, Rockets, NASA Programs, Threats, Designs, Operations, Intelligence
by Progressive Management
Price:
$9.99 USD.
Words: 132,550.
Language:
English.
Published: April 12, 2011.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Science and Nature » Military Science, Nonfiction » Science and Nature » Astronomy
In what may be the best single-volume introduction to military and civilian space flight, this up-to-date space primer from the Department of Defense provides comprehensive coverage of modern spaceflight principles and practices, with an extensive and authoritative history of military and NASA programs, along with the fundamentals of space.
21st Century Space Elevators - Advanced Earth-Space Infrastructure: NASA Report on Technology, Plans, Concepts, Materials, Environmental and Safety Issues
by Progressive Management
Price:
$9.99 USD.
Words: 30,960.
Language:
English.
Published: January 4, 2011.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Science and Nature » Astronomy
NASA workshop on space elevators based on the findings from the Advanced Space Infrastructure Workshop on Geostationary Orbiting Tether “Space Elevator” Concepts. A space elevator is a physical connection from the surface of the Earth to a geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) above the Earth 35,786 km in altitude.