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Fly me to the moon : an insider's guide to the new science of space travel /
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, ""surfing the gravitational field.""...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 A Moment of Discovery; Chapter 2 An Uncertain Start; Chapter 3 Conventional Way to the Moon; A Fuel Hog; Chapter 4 A Question; Chapter 5 Chaos and Surfing the Gravitational Field; What Is Chaos?; Chapter 6 Using Art to Find Chaotic Regions; An Oil Painting Unveiling Dynamical Processes; Chapter 7 WSB-A Chaotic No-Man's-Land; Chapter 8 Getting to the WSB-Low Energy Transfers; Chapter 9 Rescue of a Lunar Mission; Skepticism, Politics, and a Bittersweet Success; Chapter 10 Significance of Hiten.
- Chapter 11 Salvage of HGS-1, and a Christmas PresentChapter 12 Other Space Missions and Low Energy Transfers; LGAS Reincarnated: SMART 1; Europa Orbiter and Prometheus; A Lunar Transportation System; Chapter 13 Hopping Comets and Earth Collision; Potential Earth Collision; Lexell; Jupiter-Hopping Earth-Crossing Comets Present a Danger; Kuiper Belt Objects and Neptune Hopping; Ballistic Escape from the Earth-Moon System, and Asteroid Capture; Chapter 14 The Creation of the Moon by Another World; Chapter 15 Beyond the Moon and to the Stars; Pluto to Alpha Centauri.
- Comets Moving between the Sun and Alpha CentauriChapter 16 A Paradigm Shift and the Future; Bibliography; Index.