Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports

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Published: 1973

Total Pages: 1040

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Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.

Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
Multidisciplinary Design Optimization

Author: Natalia M. Alexandrov

Publisher: SIAM

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 9780898713596

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Multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) has recently emerged as a field of research and practice that brings together many previously disjointed disciplines and tools of engineering and mathematics. MDO can be described as a technology, environment, or methodology for the design of complex, coupled engineering systems, such as aircraft, automobiles, and other mechanisms, the behavior of which is determined by interacting subsystems.

The Mystery of the Seven Spheres
The Mystery of the Seven Spheres

Author: Giovanni F. Bignami

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-06-13

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 331917004X

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In this book, Giovanni Bignami, the outstanding Italian scientist and astronomer, takes the reader on a journey through the “seven spheres”, from our own planet to neighboring stars. The author offers a gripping account of the evolution of Homo Sapiens to the stage where our species is developing capabilities, in the form of new energy propulsion systems, that will enable us to conquer space. The reader will learn how we first expanded our activities to reach beyond our planet, to the Moon, and how nuclear energy, nuclear fusion, and matter–antimatter annihilation will enable us to extend our exploration. After Mars and Jupiter we shall finally reach the nearest stars, which we now know are surrounded by numerous planets, some of which are bound to be habitable. The book includes enticing descriptions of such newly discovered planets and also brings alive key historical characters in our story, such as Jules Verne and Werner von Braun.