The presented book is the completion of a trilogy dedicated to the study of the Japanese sword. In the previous books, “The History of the Japanese Sword* an...
The presented book is a development of the theme of the Japanese sword following the “History of the Japanese Sword*, published in 2001, and is intended to b...
In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: to launch the first manned spacecraft to the Moon. Just a year ago, three astronauts died in a fire during testing...
In the book “Scouts of the outer planets: the journey of the Pioneers and Voyagers from Earth to Neptune and beyond,” Igor Lisov sets out in fascinating deta...
Thomas Patten Stafford - test pilot, one of the 24 people who flew to the moon, was the commander of the Apollo-Soyuz flight, which became his crowning achie...
It begins in 1964 with the sudden and unexpected death of Sergai Korolev, the man who ran the Soviet Space Program. Young Yuri Ribko, an engineering stude...
This collection is devoted to one of the problems of modern church, scientific and public life - the “calendar issue”. The collection includes articles that ...
You are holding in your hands a collection of Stephen Hawking's Reith lectures on black holes, given on BBC Radio 4. It is difficult to imagine who could tal...
Two thousand years ago, the Sun was a character in many legends, a mythical spirit or even a god. For a long time it was believed that the daylight moves aro...
Arthur Miller, a famous American historian of science (now lives in London), talks about the outstanding discoveries of astrophysicists of the 20th century. ...
In the mid-19th century, the Harvard Observatory began hiring women as calculators to interpret the results of nightly astronomical observations performed by...
