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  • Human Missions to Mars
    Donald Rapp
    In this book, Donald Rapp looks at human missions to Mars from a technological perspective. He divides the mission into a number of stages: Earth’s surface to low-Earth orbit (LEO); departing from LEO toward Mars; Mars orbit insertion and entry, descent and landing; ascent from Mars; trans-Earth injection from Mars orbit and Earth return.A mission to send humans to explore the ...
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    46,08 €

  • Assessing Climate Change
    Donald Rapp
    This updated and revised new edition of Assessing Climate Change deals with the full gamut of essential questions in relation to global warming and climate change, uniquely providing a balanced and impartial discussion of this controversial subject. It shows that most of what is 'known'about the Sun, historical climates and projections for the future lacks foundation and leaves...
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    45,18 €

  • Use of Extraterrestrial Resources for Human Space Missions to Moon or Mars
    Donald Rapp
    This book presents a detailed, independent review of essentially all the technical aspects of 'in situ resource utilization' (ISRU), offering the first in-depth discussion of the issues of crew size, ascent from Mars, and ISRU processes. It also provides data on lunar ISRU not previously available to the public.This new edition provides a short synopsis of the Mars mission, and...
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    123,83 €

  • Assessing Climate Change
    Donald Rapp
    This updated and revised new edition of Assessing Climate Change deals with the full gamut of essential questions in relation to global warming and climate change, uniquely providing a balanced and impartial discussion of this controversial subject. It shows that most of what is 'known'about the Sun, historical climates and projections for the future lacks foundation and leaves...
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    211,91 €

  • Human Missions to Mars
    Donald Rapp
    A mission to send humans to explore the surface of Mars has been the ultimate goal of planetary exploration since the 1950s, when von Braun conjectured a flotilla of 10 interplanetary vessels carrying a crew of at least 70 humans. Since then, more than 1,000 studies were carried out on human missions to Mars, but after 60 years of study, we remain in the early planning sta...
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    309,47 €

  • Use of Extraterrestrial Resources for Human Space Missions to Moon or Mars
    Donald Rapp
    The Value of ISRU.- Mars ISRU Technology.- Lunar ISRU Technology. ...
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    158,88 €

  • Bubbles, Booms, and Busts
    Donald Rapp
    This book deals at some length with the question: Since there are many more poor than rich, why don’t the poor just tax the rich heavily and reduce the inequality? In the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, the topic of inequality was discussed widely. Ending or reducing inequality was a prime motivating factor in the emergence of communism and socialism. The b...
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    53,57 €

  • Bubbles, Booms, and Busts
    Donald Rapp
    This book deals at some length with the question: Since there are many more poor than rich, why don’t the poor just tax the rich heavily and reduce the inequality? In the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, the topic of inequality was discussed widely. Ending or reducing inequality was a prime motivating factor in the emergence of communism and socialism. The b...
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    47,42 €

  • Ice Ages and Interglacials
    Donald Rapp
    This book reviews all information known about ice ages in a scientific format. It explores theories and makes comparisons, providing an independent and complete summary of the latest data on ice ages. ...
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    243,39 €

  • Human Missions to Mars
    Donald Rapp
    This book presents a highly readable yet realistic view of the possibilities for human missions to Mars. It provides for the first time a ’level-headed’ assessment of plans for human exploration of Mars to counteract the tendency of space agencies to take an over-optimistic approach to such interplanetary missions. The author presents a detailed analy...
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    243,31 €