Columbus in Space

Author: The European Space Agency
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473564417
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 114

Book Description
In 2008, Europe’s first space laboratory was launched to the International Space Station. Ten years later, the Columbus laboratory is still circling 400 km above our heads at 28,800 km/h, providing scientists a place to run out-of-this-world experiments on everything from cold plasma technology that will destroy unwanted odours to enzymes that may slow the ageing process. To celebrate a decade of European science and technology in space this stunning book recounts the story of the Columbus laboratory from vision to mission, revealing everything from the daily operations that keep it humming, to the cutting-edge science that takes place inside. Richly illustrated with graphics and statistics of life and research in space as well as full-colour photos, Columbus in Space offers a never-seen-before glimpse into the laboratory at the forefront of humanity’s exploration of our Universe -- Europe's space in space.

A Columbus of Space

Author: Garrett Putman Serviss
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
Set in the 19th century, A man named Stonewall gets his friends to visit his lab where he has been working on the power of the atom, but soon they find themselves travelling on an expedition through space to Venus. Stonewall thinks of himself as the Columbus of space and thinks humanity has been wasting money on steam and electricity, when in fact there is limitless energy in the atom.

A Columbus of Space

Author: Garrett Serviss
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN: 1625790171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245

Book Description
Includes an Afterword by Rob GodwinNow with an Historical Essay by Ron MillerIncludes the original illustrations Featured in Ron Millers _The Conquest of Space Book Series.Ó One of the earliest science fiction novels to feature an atomic-powered spacecraft, Garrett Serviss' 1894 classic describes a thrilling trip to Venus, where his astronauts face both danger and romance. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

A Columbus of Space

Author: Garrett P. Serviss
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026896335
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
"A Columbus of Space" is dedicated to people who read Jules Verne and it is written in his style. The novel features an independent scientist who discovers the secret of "inter-atomic energy". He manages to build a spacecraft which carries him and his three friends to Venus, where they discover incredible floating cities.

A Columbus of Space

Author: Garrett Putman Serviss
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387319959
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Where Next, Columbus?

Author: Valerie Neal
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246

Book Description
Boasting an oversize format and more than fifty color illustrations, this engaging volume offers readers a fascinating look at exploration's past and future. Several pieces vividly depict the actual experience of space travel and the many scientific findings made along the way. Harrison H.

They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus

Author: Elizabeth Weil
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0307767191
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 229

Book Description
This is a classic American tale of dreams and obsession--the suspenseful, brilliantly written account of one eccentric man’s hunger to open space travel to us all: to let us rocket into orbit, return to earth, and soar yet again--thus transforming space travel forever. They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus Gary Hudson was seven years old when Sputnik flew, nineteen when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, and all he ever wanted to do was to travel into space. Between 1970 and 1996 he founded and disbanded five separate rocket-building companies, none meeting with much success. Then, in 1997, at the age of forty-seven, he launched Rotary Rocket. His goal was to develop and build the Roton, the world’s first manned, single-stage-to-orbit, fully reusable spaceship, capable of shuttling ordinary people into orbit and back in a single day. Elizabeth Weil followed Gary for two years, and in this book she brings to vivid life a seductively--perhaps delusionally--optimistic world where science and science fiction meld and fuse, and where imagination and invention collide. In California’s bleak and windswept Mojave Desert, Gary assembled a fanatical, mismatched crew of engineers and technicians, and Weil bears witness to their Roton endeavor, from first conception to final test flight. The cast includes a pyromaniacal engineer, a world expert on composite airframes, two former Navy test pilots, Gary’s infinitely patient wife, a third-generation Mojave motel owner, and an enigmatic and resourceful financier. At their center shines Gary himself, a man eternally reflecting the glow of a better, lighter, higher world--a world that, despite his flaws and failures, he perpetually convinces us we’re all about to reach.

A Columbus of Space

Author: Garrett P. Serviss
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781502400864
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270

Book Description
"[...] CHAPTER I. A MARVELOUS INVENTION II. A TRIP OF TERROR III. THE PLANETARY LIMITED IV. THE CAVERNS OF VENUS[...]."

A Columbus of Space

Author: Garrett Putman Serviss
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
I am a hero worshiper; an insatiable devourer of biographies; and I say that no man in all the splendid list ever equaled Edmund Stonewall. You smile because you have never heard his name, for, until now, his biography has not been written. And this is not truly a biography; it is only the story of the crowning event in Stonewall's career. Really it humbles one's pride of race to see how ignorant the world is of its true heroes. Many a man who cuts a great figure in history is, after all, a poor specimen of humanity, slavishly following old ruts, destitute of any real originality, and remarkable only for some exaggeration of the commonplace. But in the case of Edmund Stonewall the world cannot be blamed for its ignorance, because, as I have already said, his story remains to be written, and hitherto it has been guarded as a profound secret. I do not wish to exaggerate; yet I cannot avoid seeming to do so in simply telling the facts. If Stonewall's proceedings had become Matter of common knowledge the world would have been-I must speak plainly-revolutionized. He held in his hands the means of realizing the wildest dreams of power, wealth, and human mastery over the forces of nature, that any enthusiast ever treasured in his prophetic soul.

A Columbus of Space

Author: Garrett P Serviss
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
We simply listened in silence; for what could we say? The facts were more eloquent than any words, and called for no commentary. Here we were, out in the middle of space; and there was the earth, hanging on nothing, like a summer cloud. At least we knew where we were if we didn't quite understand how we had got there. . . .