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The Seven Secrets of How to Think Like a Rocket Scientist Hardcover - 2006

by Jim Longuski


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This book explains the methods that rocket scientists use -- expressed in a way that could be applied in everyday life. It's short and snappy and written by a rocket scientist. The book illustrates the methods (the 7 secrets) with anecdotes, quotations and biographical sketches of famous scientists, ideas from sci-fi, personal stories and insights, and occasionally a bit of space history. The author reveals that rocket science is just common sense applied to the extraordinarily uncommon environment of outer space and that rocket scientists are people, too. This book is intended for general "armchair" scientists, and for those interested in popular psychology, space history, and science fiction films.

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Would you like to know the methods that rocket scientists use--expressed in a way that you could apply to your everyday life? The book you are holding does just that. Illustrated are the methods (the 7 secrets) with anecdotes, quotations and biographical sketches of famous scientists, ideas from sci-fi, personal stories and insights, and occasionally a bit of space history. It turns out that rocket science is just common sense applied to the extraordinarily uncommon environment of outer space. (And that rocket scientists are people, too!)

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  • Title The Seven Secrets of How to Think Like a Rocket Scientist
  • Author Jim Longuski
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition U. S. EDITION
  • Pages 174
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Copernicus Books, New York, NY
  • Date 2006-10-24
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780387308760 / 0387308768
  • Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.42 x 6.36 x 0.75 in (23.93 x 16.15 x 1.91 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Rocketry, Creative thinking
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006922755
  • Dewey Decimal Code 629.475

About the author

After receiving his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from The University of Michigan in 1979, Jim Longuski (long-gus-ske) worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a Maneuver Analyst and as a Mission Designer. In 1988 he joined the faculty of the School of Aeronautics & Astronautics at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana where he teaches courses in dynamics, aerospace optimization, and spacecraft design. He is coinventor of a "Method for Velocity Precision Pointing in Spin-Stabilized Spacecraft or Rockets" and is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Professor Longuski has published over one hundred and fifty conference and journal papers in the general area of astrodynamics including such topics as spacecraft dynamics and control, reentry theory, mission design, space trajectory optimization, and a new test of General Relativity. In 2004, AIAA published Professor Longuski's first book, Advice to Rocket Scientists: A Career Survival Guide for Scientists and Engineers.

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