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Dr. Jerome (Jay) Apt Papers and Photographs
The Dr. Jerome Apt Papers and Photographs documents the professional career and personal life of astronaut Dr. Jay Apt, as well as the respective and combined members of the Apt and Frank families. The bulk of the collection documents Apt’s NASA career through official astronaut training documents and manuals, mission photographs, film, VHS and cassette tapes, CDs, floppy disks, correspondence, publicity, and ephemera. The collection also highlights Apt’s tenure as director of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History after leaving NASA and his time as a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Jay Apt’s youth and his love for model rocketry is documented through photographs, model rocketry catalogs, invoices, newsletters, and programs. Jay’s education at Shadyside Academy, Harvard University, and MIT is documented through an Alumnus booklet, acceptance packages, certificates, correspondence, directories, invoices, registration receipts, and GRE correspondence and score card. The Dr. Jerome Apt Papers and Photographs have been arranged into the five series, three of which have been further arranged into subseries.
Windows to the Universe: Jay Apt
As part of Windows of the Universe, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) offers a brief biographical sketch about the American astronaut Jay Apt (1949- ). This biography is intended for middle school students. Apt first joined NASA as a research scientist, and later became an astronaut in 1986. Apt has made spacewalks, performed life science experiments, and visited the Mir space station. A portrait of Apt is available.
Space Shuttle Stories
Experience all 135 NASA space shuttle missions ever flown through the words of the astronauts themselves in this spectacularly illustrated volume With more than 600 photos from the NASA archives, this guide is perfect for fans of space history and spaceflight NASA's space shuttle was the world's first reusable spacecraft, accomplishing many firsts and inspiring generations across its 30-year lifespan as America's iconic spaceship. In Space Shuttle Stories, shuttle astronaut Tom Jones interviewed more than 130 fellow astronauts for personal vignettes from each mission, complemented by their written accounts for all 135 space shuttle missions, from Columbia's maiden flight in 1981 to the final...
Carbon Capture and Sequestration
The United States produces over seventy percent of all its electricity from fossil fuels and nearly fifty percent from coal alone. Worldwide, forty-one percent of all electricity is generated from coal, making it the single most important fuel source for electricity generation, followed by natural gas. This means that an essential part of any portfolio for emissions reduction will be technology to capture carbon dioxide and permanently sequester it in suitable geologic formations. While many nations have incentivized development of CCS technology, large regulatory and legal barriers exist that have yet to be addressed. This book identifies current law and regulation that applies to geologic ...
Variable Renewable Energy and the Electricity Grid
The integration of renewable energy resources into the electricity grid presents an important challenge. This book provides a review and analysis of the technical and policy options available for managing variable energy resources such as wind and solar power. As well as being of value to government and industry policy-makers and planners, the volume also provides a single source for scientists and engineers of the technical knowledge gained during the 4-year RenewElec (renewable electricity) project at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Vermont, Vermont Law School, and the Van Ness Feldman environmental law firm. The first part of the book discusses the options for large scale in...
Celebrating 30 Years of the Space Shuttle
NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT-- OVERSTOCK SALE -Significantly reduced list price The Space Shuttle fleet set high marks of achievement and endurance through 30 years of missions, from its first on April 12, 1981, to its last, on July 21, 2011. Beginning with the orbiter Columbia and continuing with Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Space Shuttle has carried people into orbit; launched, recovered, and repaired satellites; conducted cutting-edge research; and helped build the largest human made structure in space, the International Space Station. Replete with images and facts of each mission and crew, t...
The Story of the Space Shuttle
In spite of the Challenger and Columbia disasters, the US Space Shuttle, which entered service in 1981, remains the most successful spacecraft ever developed. Conceived and designed as a reusable spacecraft to provide cheap access to low Earth orbit, and to supersede expendable launch vehicles, serving as the National Space Transportation System, it now coexists with a new range of commercial rockets. David Harland’s definitive work on the Space Shuttle explains the scientific contribution the Space Shuttle has made to the international space programme, detailing missions to Mir, Hubble and more recently its role in the assembly of the International Space Station. This substantial revision to existing chapters and extension of ‘The Space Shuttle’, following the loss of Columbia, will include a comprehensive account of the run-up to resumption of operations and conclude with a chapter beyond the Shuttle, looking at possible future concepts for a partly or totally reusable space vehicle which are being considered to replace the Shuttle.
Discovering Pluto
The story of Pluto and its largest moon, from discovery through the New Horizons flyby--Provided by publisher.
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