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Industrial Light & Magic: Into the Digital Realm
[Buy it!] | Mark Cotta Vaz | USD 25.45
(Wed May 29 04:32:03 2024) | Alibris | artlessmissals via Alibris | Del Rey 1996 HARDCOVER VG Binding solid, pages crisp and clean, no markings found. Cover bright and shiny with light scuffs and dents in front, but quite scuffed in the back. Back inner flap of dust jacket has small darkened sticker. Extremities lightly bumped, lightly bent and rubbed. No expedited or international shipping of this oversize book. |
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Martian Outpost : The Challenges of Establishing a Human Settlement on Mars
[Buy it!] | Erik Seedhouse | USD 39.74
(Wed May 29 04:32:03 2024) | Choosebooks/ZVAB | AHA-BUCH GmbH | ISBN10: 038798190X, ISBN13: 9780387981901, [publisher: Springer New York] Softcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Mars Outpost provides a detailed insight into the various technologies, mission architectures, medical requirements, and training needed to send humans to Mars. It focuses on mission objectives and benefits, and the risks and complexitiesthat are compounded when linked to an overall planet exploration program involving several expeditions and setting up a permanent presence on the surface. The first section provides the background to sending a human mission to Mars. Analogies are made with early polar exploration and the expeditions of Shackleton, Amundsen, and Mawson. The interplanetary plans of the European Space Agency, NASA, and Russia are examined, including the possibility of one or more nations joining forces to send humans to Mars. Current mission architectures, such as NASA's Constellation, ESA's Aurora, and Ross Tierney's DIRECT, are described and evaluated. The next section looks at how humans will get to the Red Planet, beginning with the preparation of the crew.The authorexaminesthe various analogues to understand the problems Mars-bound astronauts will face. Additional chapters describe the transportation hardware necessary to launch 4-6 astronauts on an interplanetary trajectory to Mars, including the cutting edge engineering and designof life support systems required to protect crews for more than a year from the lethal radiation encountered in deep space. NASA's current plan is to use standard chemical propulsion technology, but eventually Mars crews will take advantage of advanced propulsion concepts, such as the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket, ion drives and nuclear propulsion. The interplanetary options for reaching Mars,as well asthe major propulsive maneuvers required and the trajectories and energy requirements for manned and unmanned payloads, are reviewed. Another chapter addresses the daunting medical problems andavailable countermeasures for humans embarking on a mission to Mars: the insidious effects of radiation on the human body and the deleterious consequences of bone and muscle deconditioning. Crew selection will be considered, bearing in mind the strong possibility that they may not be able to return to Earth.Still another chapterdescribes the guidance, navigation, and control system architecture, as well as the lander design requirements and crew tasks and responsibilities required to touch down on the Red Planet. Section 3 looks at the surface mission architectures. Seedhouse describes such problems as radiation, extreme temperatures, and construction challenges that will be encountered by colonists. He examines proposed concepts for transporting cargo and astronauts long distances across the Martian surface using magnetic levitation systems, permanent rail systems, and flying vehicles. In the penultimate chapter of the book, the author explains an adaptable and mobile exploration architecturethat will enable long-term human exploration of Mars, perhaps making it the next space-based tourist location.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2009]
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The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe Oxford Handbooks
[Buy it!] | Bennett Judith M. Editor; Karras Ruth Mazo Editor; | USD 92.46
(Wed May 29 04:32:02 2024) | Biblio | SGS Trading Inc | Oxford University Press, Date: 2016-12-01. Paperback. Good. Textbook, May Have Highlights, Notes and/or Underlining, BOOK ONLYNO ACCESS CODE, NO CD, Ships with Emailed Tracking Oxford University Press ISBN 0198779380 9780198779384 [US] |
