55 Free Ebooks on Aeronautics and Aerospace Technology to Explore Worlds Beyond Earth
The distance between Earth and Mars is 52.225 million miles. The distance between Earth and Alpha Centauri is 4.367 light-years. The farthest known star, Icarus, is 5 billion light-years from Earth. It will take 9 billion years for our existing chemical rockets to reach Icarus! Furthermore, companies such as SpaceX charge $62 million to launch a commercial satellite into orbit. These factors have prevented deep space travel, but new methods of propulsion are currently being studied in order to make space exploration and inhabitation a possibility.
Aerospace engineering, for example, is a closely related area of engineering that deals with the production of aircraft and spacecraft. Aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering are two main divisions that overlap. Aeronautics, on the other hand, is the science or art of studying, designing, and producing air flight–capable machines, as well as the techniques for flying planes and rockets through the air. The science of building and operating vehicles for space exploration outside the earth’s atmosphere is known as astronautics.
In this compilation we’ve compiled 55 free ebooks from Aeronautics & Astronautics, Aerospace Engineering and Propulsion Technology. If space exploration or reaching into the deep-space fascinates you, this compilation may tickle your curiosity and your quest for more knowledge. Happy exploring!Aeronautics & Astronautics
- Apollo 17 Lunar Surface Journal by Eric M. Jones
- Apollo by the Numbers: A Statistical Reference by Richard W. Orloff
- Breaking the Mishap Chain by P.W. Merlin, G.A. Bendrick, D.A. Holland
- Coming Home: Reentry and Recovery from Space by Roger D. Launius, Dennis R. Jenkins
- Confronting Space Debris by Dave Baiocchi, William Welser IV
- Dressing for Altitude by Dennis R. Jenkins
- Flying Beyond the Stall by Douglas A. Joyce
- From Stargazers to Starships by David P. Stern
- How to design, build and test small liquid-fuel rocket engines by Leroy J. Krzycki
- Humans to Mars: Fifty Years of Mission Planning, 1950-2000 by David S. F. Portree
- Mariner Mission to Venus by Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Orders of Magnitude: A History of the NACA and NASA, 1915-1990 by Roger E. Bilstein
- Popular Review of new Concepts, Ideas and Innovations in Space Launch and Flight by Alexander Bolonkin
- Psychology of Space Exploration by Douglas A. Vakoch
- Remembering the Space Age by Steven J. Dick
- Rockets and People, Volume 1 by Boris Chertok
- Rockets and People, Volume 2: Creating a Rocket Industry by Boris Chertok
- Rockets and People, Volume 3: Hot Days of the Cold War by Boris Chertok
- Rockets and People: Volume IV: The Moon Race by Boris Chertok
- Space Handbook by Robert W. Buchheim
- Spacecraft Dynamics by Thomas R. Kane
- The Apollo Spacecraft: A Chronology by Ivan D. Ertel, at al.
- The Future of Remote Sensing From Space by U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment
- Unlimited Horizons: Design and Development of the U-2 by Peter W. Merlin
Aerospace Engineering
- Aerial Vehicles by Thanh Mung Lam
- Aerospace Technologies Advancements by Thawar T. Arif
- Aircraft Weight and Balance Handbook by Federal Aviation Administration
- Apollo by the Numbers: A Statistical Reference by Richard W. Orloff
- Beyond Horizons: A Half Century of Air Force Space Leadership by David N. Spires
- Crash Course: Lessons Learned from Accidents Involving Remotely Piloted and Autonomous Aircraft by Peter W. Merlin
- Facing the Heat Barrier: A History of Hypersonics by T. A. Heppenheimer
- Fundamentals of Aerospace Engineering by Manuel Soler
- Fundamentals of Multiphase Flow by Christopher E. Brennen
- Introduction to the Aerodynamics of Flight by Theodore A. Talay
- Lecture Notes on Gas Dynamics by Joseph M. Powers
- Modeling Flight by Joseph R. Chambers
- NASA at 50: Interviews with NASA’s Senior Leadership by Rebecca Wright, Sandra Johnson, Steven J. Dick
- NASA Engineers and the Age of Apollo by Sylvia Doughty Fries
- Orders of Magnitude: A History of the NACA and NASA, 1915-1990 by Roger E. Bilstein
- Quest for Performance: The Evolution of Modern Aircraft by Laurence K. Loftin, Jr.
- Remembering the Space Age by Steven J. Dick
- Societal Impact of Spaceflight by NASA
- Space Handbook by Robert W. Buchheim
- Space Transport and Engineering Methods by Wikibooks
- Spacecraft Dynamics by Thomas R. Kane
- The Apollo Spacecraft: A Chronology by Ivan D. Ertel, at al.
- The Smell Of Kerosene: A Test Pilot’s Odyssey by Donald L. Mallick
- The Wind and Beyond by James R. Hansen,
- Wind Tunnels by Satoru Okamoto
- Wingless Flight: The Lifting Body Story by R. Dale Reed
Propulsion Technology
- Engines and Innovation: Lewis Laboratory and American Propulsion Technology by Virginia P. Dawson
- How to design, build and test small liquid-fuel rocket engines by Leroy J. Krzycki
- Pursuit of Power: NASA’s Propulsion Systems Laboratory No. 1 and 2 by Robert S. Arrighi
- Space Handbook by Robert W. Buchheim
- Taming Liquid Hydrogen: The Centaur Upper Stage Rocket 1958-2002 by Virginia P. Dawson, Mark D. Bowles
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