Fly me to the moon an insider's guide to the new science of space travel / Edward Belbruno.

By:

Belbruno, Edward, 1951- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781400849192

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

TL1075 .F596 2013

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Subject: 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."" Belbruno devised one of the most exciting concepts now being used in space flight, that of swinging through the cosmos on the subtle fluctuations of the planets' gravitational pulls. His idea was met with skepticism until 1991, when he used it to get a stray Japanese satellite back on course to the Mo.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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."" Belbruno devised one of the most exciting concepts now being used in space flight, that of swinging through the cosmos on the subtle fluctuations of the planets' gravitational pulls. His idea was met with skepticism until 1991, when he used it to get a stray Japanese satellite back on course to the Mo.

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