Tourists in Space
Tourists in Space

Author: Erik Seedhouse

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 3319050389

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Forget Hawaii or the Mediterranean. Soon – very soon – you’ll be able to add a much more exotic stamp to your passport: space. How will you get there, what will the trip be like and how much training will you need? All you need to know is right here in this guide. Tourists in Space: A Practical Guide supplies all the advice and information you need to make your spaceflight the most rewarding experience of your life. This definitive, real-world guide is packed with helpful facts and suggestions on everything from training, equipment, safety and in-flight procedures to techniques for avoiding space motion sickness and bone demineralization. You’ll also find: • Advice on choosing your training agency • Techniques for minimizing the risk of space motion sickness • Information you need to prepare for your medical examination, training and flight • Tips on activities near your training location and much more.

Energising Indian Aerospace Industry
Energising Indian Aerospace Industry

Author: Jasjit Singh

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9788187966760

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India's infrastructure in the area of aerospace industry is well developed even if inadequate for the future. Private industry in India has moved well beyond its traditional position of small-medium scale industry to large scale modern manufacturing sectors in diverse areas, and is now capable of partnership with the best in terms of technology, management and productivity. Contrary to conventional wisdom, they are partners in a variety of defence industry enterprises. The aerospace industry, in particular, has consistently performed creditably for a developing country that India is. There is tremendous scope and potential for energising our national aerospace industry in the coming decades to meet the national needs of the defence and civilian sectors. In turn, this would also increase the opportunities for greater cooperation with the aerospace industry in the developed countries for mutual benefit. This would reinforce an expanding and increasingly capable national science and technology base to provide a multiplying effect to that partnership.

From the Crow's Nest
From the Crow's Nest

Author: Admiral Prakash

Publisher: Lancer

Published: 2009-08-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788170621263

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Before the advent of radar, the highest vantage point on a ship was the Crow's Nest, from where a sailor could get a sweeping view of the sea miles around. Having risen to the Crow's Nest of the Indian Navy after a distinguished career spanning 40 years, Admiral Arun Prakash, in this unique tour d' horizon, shares his views and experiences on a wide variety of issues concerning maritime and national security. This eclectic panorama of articles and speeches rendered in India and abroad, by one of the most respected and articulate Chiefs that the Indian Navy has had, provides unique and incisive insights on a wide range of subjects. Gleaned from his considerable repertoire, this selection touches on issues such as Maritime Power, Defense Finance and Planning, Shipbuilding, Defense RandD, Higher Defense Management, Jointmanship, and others all of immense contemporary significance and concern. They offer as much to the inquisitive uninitiated as to Servicemen and hard-nosed defense analysts eager for "horse's mouth" version on matters of national security. With his vast surface ship and aviation experience, and varied command and staff exposure at significant levels which includes Joint Service appointments, the Admiral is ideally equipped to deal authoritatively with a host of issues and topics. He is refreshingly frank and forthcoming in his views, and pulls no punches. Reflective and provocative in turns, his writing and speeches besides being topical make most stimulating reading.

SPACEFARING NATION
SPACEFARING NATION

Author: Martin Collins

Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)

Published: 1991-02-17

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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Eight essays from a spring 1987 conference at the Smithsonian Institute survey political and technical aspects of the US space program, suggesting that it has been shaped by institutional dynamics more than by technological advances. No index. Acidic paper, despite a claim to the contrary. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Paths of Heaven The Evolution of Airpower Theory
The Paths of Heaven The Evolution of Airpower Theory

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Airpower is not widely understood. Even though it has come to play an increasingly important role in both peace and war, the basic concepts that define and govern airpower remain obscure to many people, even to professional military officers. This fact is largely due to fundamental differences of opinion as to whether or not the aircraft has altered the strategies of war or merely its tactics. If the former, then one can see airpower as a revolutionary leap along the continuum of war; but if the latter, then airpower is simply another weapon that joins the arsenal along with the rifle, machine gun, tank, submarine, and radio. This book implicitly assumes that airpower has brought about a revolution in war. It has altered virtually all aspects of war: how it is fought, by whom, against whom, and with what weapons. Flowing from those factors have been changes in training, organization, administration, command and control, and doctrine. War has been fundamentally transformed by the advent of the airplane.

Aerodynamic Data of Space Vehicles
Aerodynamic Data of Space Vehicles

Author: Claus Weiland

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2014-02-22

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 3642541682

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The capacity and quality of the atmospheric flight performance of space flight vehicles is characterized by their aerodynamic data bases. A complete aerodynamic data base would encompass the coefficients of the static longitudinal and lateral motions and the related dynamic coefficients. In this book the aerodynamics of 27 vehicles are considered. Only a few of them did really fly. Therefore the aerodynamic data bases are often not complete, in particular when the projects or programs were more or less abruptly stopped, often due to political decisions. Configurational design studies or the development of demonstrators usually happen with reduced or incomplete aerodynamic data sets. Therefore some data sets base just on the application of one of the following tools: semi-empirical design methods, wind tunnel tests, numerical simulations. In so far a high percentage of the data presented is incomplete and would have to be verified. Flight mechanics needs the aerodynamic coefficients as function of a lot of variables. The allocation of the aerodynamic coefficients for a particular flight operation at a specific trajectory point is conducted by an aerodynamic model. The establishment of such models is described in this book. This book is written for graduate and doctoral students to give them insight into the aerodynamics of the various flight configurations. Further for design and development engineers in industry and at research institutes (including universities) searching for an appropriate vehicle shape, as well as for non-specialists, who may be interested in this subject. The book will be helpful, too, in the case that system studies require in their concept phases the selection of suitable vehicle shapes.

Aerodynamic Loading Characteristics at Mach Numbers from 0.80 to 1.20 of a 1/10-scale Three-stage Scout Model
Aerodynamic Loading Characteristics at Mach Numbers from 0.80 to 1.20 of a 1/10-scale Three-stage Scout Model

Author: Thomas C. Kelly

Publisher:

Published: 1961

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13:

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Aerodynamic loads results have been obtained in the Langley 8-foot transonic pressure tunnel at Mach numbers from 0.80 to 1.20 for a 1/10-scale model of the upper three stages of the Scout vehicle. Tests were conducted through an angle-of-attack range from -8° to 8° at an average test Reynolds number per foot of about 4.0 x 106. Results indicated that the peak negative pressures associated with expansion corners at the nose and transition flare exhibit sizeable variations which occur over a relatively small Mach number range. The magnitude of the variations may cause the critical local loading condition for the full-scale vehicle to occur at a Mach number considerably lower than that at which the maximum dynamic pressure occurs in flight. The addition of protuberances simulating antennas and wiring conduits had slight, localized effects. The lift carryover from the nose and transition flare on the cylindrical portions of the model generally increased with an increase in Mach number.