Fly Me to the Moon (eBook)

An Insider's Guide to the New Science of Space Travel

Edward Belbruno (Autor)

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2013 | 1. Auflage
192 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4919-2 (ISBN)

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Edward Belbruno is President of Innovative Orbital Design, visiting research collaborator in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University, and a consultant on advanced astrodynamics with NASA. He is the author of Capture Dynamics and Chaotic Motions in Celestial Mechanics (Princeton).

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When a leaf falls on a windy day, it drifts and tumbles, tossed every which way on the breeze. This is chaos in action. In Fly Me to the Moon, Edward Belbruno shows how to harness the same principle for low-fuel space travel--or, as he puts it, "e;surfing the gravitational field."e; Belbruno devised one of the most exciting concepts now being used in space flight, that of swinging through the cosmos on the subtle fluctuations of the planets' gravitational pulls. His idea was met with skepticism until 1991, when he used it to get a stray Japanese satellite back on course to the Moon. The successful rescue represented the first application of chaos to space travel and ushered in an emerging new field. Part memoir, part scientific adventure story, Fly Me to the Moon gives a gripping insider's account of that mission and of Belbruno's personal struggles with the science establishment. Along the way, Belbruno introduces readers to recent breathtaking advances in American space exploration. He discusses ways to capture and redirect asteroids; presents new research on the origin of the Moon; weighs in on discoveries like 2003 UB313 (now named Eris), a dwarf planet detected in the far outer reaches of our solar system--and much more. Grounded in Belbruno's own rigorous theoretical research but written for a general audience, Fly Me to the Moon is for anybody who has ever felt moved by the spirit of discovery.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.9.2013
• Vorwort: Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Zusatzinfo: 8 halftones. 39 line illus. 1 table.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Weltraum / Astronomie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Thermodynamik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik
• Schlagworte: A Book Of • Advanced Composition Explorer • Aerospace Engineering • Alpha Centauri • Apollo 11 • Apollo 13 • Apollo Lunar Module • Apollo Program • Apollo (spacecraft) • Apsis • Around the Moon • Asteroid capture • Astronomer • Astronomy • astrophysics • Ballistic capture • Buoyancy • Calculation • Callisto (moon) • Cassini–Huygens • Celestial mechanics • Circular Orbit • Colonization of the Moon • Comet • Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 • Communications satellite • Crew Exploration Vehicle • Earth's orbit • Elliptic orbit • escape velocity • Europa Orbiter • exoplanet • far side of the moon • Formation and evolution of the Solar System • from the earth to the moon • fuel • Geocentric orbit • Geology of the Moon • Geostationary orbit • Getaway Special • G-Force • Gravitational Field • Gravity • Gravity Assist • Halo orbit • Highly elliptical orbit • HITEN • Hot air balloon • human spaceflight • Institute of Space and Astronautical Science • Jupiter • Kuiper Belt • Lagrangian point • Liquid fuel • Low Earth Orbit • Lunar distance (astronomy) • Lunar orbit • Mars Observer • mathematician • milky way • Minor Planet • Moons of Jupiter • Moons of Saturn • mountain range • Multistage rocket • Neil Armstrong • Neptune • Nozomi (spacecraft) • oil painting • Oort Cloud • Orbital period • Orbital plane (astronomy) • origin of the moon • payload • Planetary body • Planetary System • Propulsion • Proxima Centauri • Radio Telescope • relative velocity • Robotic spacecraft • Rocket engine • Scientist • Small Solar System body • Solar and Heliospheric Observatory • Solar cell • Solar mass • spacecraft • space exploration • Space Exploration Initiative • Spaceflight • space probe • space shuttle • Technology • The Planetary Society • To the Earth • To the moon • Trajectory • Voyager program • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4919-5 / 1400849195
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4919-2 / 9781400849192