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        Rational Accidents

        Rational Accidents

        Rational Accidents

        Reckoning with Catastrophic Technologies

        by John Downer

        ISBN: 9780262546997

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 16, 2024

        An unflinching look at the unique challenges posed by complex technologies we cannot afford to let fail—and why the remarkable achievements of civil aviation can help us understand those challenges.
        Into the Anthropocosmos

        Into the Anthropocosmos

        Into the Anthropocosmos

        A Whole Space Catalog from the MIT Space Exploration Initiative

        by Ariel Ekblaw

        Foreword by Cady Coleman

        ISBN: 9780262046374

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 19, 2021

        A lavishly illustrated catalog of space technology of the future: lab-tested devices, experiments, and habitats for the age of participatory space exploration.
        Perspectives in Space Surveillance

        Perspectives in Space Surveillance

        Perspectives in Space Surveillance

        Edited by Ramaswamy Sridharan and Antonio F. Pensa

        ISBN: 9780262035873

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 19, 2017

        The development of deep space surveillance technology and its later application to near-Earth surveillance, covering work at Lincoln Laboratory from 1970 to 2000.
        Digital Apollo

        Digital Apollo

        Digital Apollo

        Human and Machine in Spaceflight

        by David A. Mindell

        ISBN: 9780262516105

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 30, 2011

        How human pilots and automated systems worked together to achieve the ultimate in flight—the lunar landings of NASA's Apollo program.
        Spacesuit

        Spacesuit

        Spacesuit

        Fashioning Apollo

        by Nicholas de Monchaux

        ISBN: 9780262015202

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 18, 2011

        How the twenty-one-layer Apollo spacesuit, made by Playtex, was a triumph of intimacy over engineering.
        The Simple Science of Flight

        The Simple Science of Flight, revised and expanded edition

        The Simple Science of Flight

        From Insects to Jumbo Jets

        by Henk Tennekes

        ISBN: 9780262513135

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 4, 2009

        An investigation into how machines and living creatures fly, and of the similarities between butterflies and Boeings, paper airplanes and plovers.
        The Simple Science of Flight

        The Simple Science of Flight

        The Simple Science of Flight

        From Insects to Jumbo Jets

        by Henk Tennekes

        ISBN: 9780262700658

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: July 29, 1997

        From the smallest gnat to the largest aircraft, all things that fly obey the same aerodynamic principles. The Simple Science of Flight offers a leisurely introduction to the mechanics of flight and,...
        Aircraft Engines and Gas Turbines

        Aircraft Engines and Gas Turbines

        Aircraft Engines and Gas Turbines

        by Jack L. Kerrebrock

        ISBN: 9780262110648

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 15, 1977

        Aerodynamics Measurements

        Aerodynamics Measurements

        Aerodynamics Measurements

        by Robert C. Dean Jr.

        ISBN: 9780262040013

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: June 15, 1953

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