The Book Company: New Products - Space Science

Pioneers of Spaceflight (Beyond the Confines of Earth to Explore the Endless Frontiers)

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 23:09:17 +0000

As humanity prepares to return to the Moon, there has never been a better time to celebrate the pioneers who first made the journey possible.

July 1969. It had been just over eight years since the flights of Gagarin and Shepard, followed quickly by President Kennedy’s challenge to p..

Price: $29.99

Journey to the Moon (The Science, History, and Future of Earth's Nearest Neighbour)

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 23:09:04 +0000

The human race's fascination with Earth's Moon reached fever pitch on July 20, 1969, but now, more than half a century on, we are living through the greatest lunar renaissance since the Apollo era.

In April 2026, four astronauts flew further from Earth than any humans since Apollo 1..

Price: $29.99

Space Trivia from the Smithsonian: Trivia Cards (200 Questions to Test Your Knowledge of the Cosmos)

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:59:12 +0000

Test your knowledge of the universe with 200 trivia questions that cover elements of the cosmos along with the people and technology instrumental in advancing humanity's exploration of space.

What is the name for the explosion of a star? Which astronomer invented a more effective tel..

Price: $25.00

Spacecraft Modeling, Attitude Determination, and Control (Quaternion-Based Approach, Second edition)

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:14:01 +0000

This book discusses spacecraft modeling, attitude determination, estimation, and controls. A background on rotation sequence and reference frames is provided, followed by the discussion of the attitude determination using vector measurements, and control designs independent of actuators in use...

Price: $73.99

Cosmic Inflation and Dark Energy (An Introduction)

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:32:16 +0000

Updated throughout, with new material on latest observations, primordial gravitational waves, primordial black holes, stochastic and ultra slow-roll inflation, this 2nd edition provides an accessible introduction to the accelerated expansion of the Universe. It also contains a brief crash-cours..

Price: $99.99

Rocket Science (To the Moon and Beyond)

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:25:57 +0000

How does a rocket take off into space? Why must most of its mass be fuel? What is the escape velocity? How do spacecraft use gravity to swing around the solar system? How do you navigate in space? In this brilliant little book, rocket scientist Caroline P. Lubert reveals the elegant physics tha..

Price: $8.95

Apollo 10 in Photographs (The Apollo Photo Archive)

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:14:04 +0000

The Apollo Photo Archive series comprises the most comprehensive pictorial record of America’s moon-landing program ever published.

This fifth volume covers Apollo 10, which occurred in May 1969. The crew of Apollo 10, Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan, and John Young, all were veterans of pr..

Price: $59.99

Worlds Coordinated with Cosmic Muons (The Particles From Space and How They Coordinate Your Life)

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:36:33 +0000

Drawing on decades of pioneering research, Professor Hiroyuki K.M. Tanaka introduces the emerging concept of cosmic-signal world coordination, a framework that connects objects, environments, and events within universal space-time coordinates.

Price: $64.99

How Reality Works (A New View of the Foundations of Physics)

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:48:14 +0000

We don't need new physics – we need a new understanding!

Dr. Milan Dlabal frees physics from its space-time dilemma by giving reality the structure that Einstein demanded.

He takes up Zeilinger's central ideas, develops them further, and shows that the constant..

Price: $79.99

The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, Antiquity to 1915 (A Source Book)

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:33:38 +0000

This book presents key documents from the pre-1915 history of the extraterrestrial life debate. Introductions and commentaries accompany each source document, some of which are published here for the first time or in a new translation. Authors included are Aristotle, Lucretius, Aquinas, Nichola..

Price: $46.00