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Looking back through the lens of elapsed time at perhaps the most significant chapter of American space-flight history, Robert Miller captures the stark beauty of the abandoned relics of the sites that paves the way to the moon. This book breathes new life into old concrete, providing a fresh look even for those who lived or intimately know the glory of Apollo.

Launch complexes (Astronautics) --- Astronautics --- Abandoned buildings --- Derelict buildings --- Buildings --- Launch sites (Astronautics) --- Launching sites (Astronautics) --- Ground support systems (Astronautics) --- History. --- Friches industrielles. --- Conquête de l'espace. --- Vaisseaux spatiaux. --- Photographie industrielle.

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In 1997, for the first time commercial launches outnumbered government launches at the Eastern Range (ER), located at Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida. This title discusses whether range safety processes can be made more efficient and less costly without compromising public safety.

Launch complexes (Astronautics) -- United States -- Safety measures. --- Risk management. --- Rockets (Aeronautics) -- United States -- Launching -- Safety measures. --- Rockets (Aeronautics) --- Launch complexes (Astronautics) --- Launching --- Safety measures. --- Launch sites (Astronautics) --- Launching sites (Astronautics) --- Aerial rockets --- Insurance --- Management --- Astronautics --- Ground support systems (Astronautics) --- Flying-machines --- High-speed aeronautics --- Projectiles --- Rocketry --- Interplanetary voyages --- Jet propulsion --- Rocket engines --- Space Trajectories --- Science

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"The U.S. Air Force's (USAF's) current approach to sizing and shaping non-maintenance agile combat support (ACS) manpower often results in a discrepancy between the supply of ACS forces and operational demands because much of ACS is sized and shaped to meet the requirements of home-station installation operations, not expeditionary operations. This report proposes a more enterprise-oriented approach to measuring ACS manpower requirements by synthesizing combatant commander operational plans, Defense Planning Scenarios, functional area deployment rules, and subject-matter expert input. Using these new expeditionary metrics to assess the capacity of the current ACS manpower mix to support expeditionary operations, this report finds that there are imbalances among its career fields relative to expeditionary demands. To address these imbalances, it develops and assesses several rebalanced manpower mixes and finds that the USAF can achieve more expeditionary ACS capacity than it currently has by realigning manpower, and it can realize substantial savings by reducing end strength and substituting civilian billets for military billets."--Abstract on web page.

Manpower planning --- Military planning --- Air Forces --- Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- United States. --- Organization. --- Ground support. --- Operational readiness. --- AF (Air force) --- Air Force (U.S.) --- U.S.A.F. (Air force) --- United States Air Force --- US Air Force --- USAF (Air force)

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This book provides a look at the various nuances of the commercial aspects of space transport and offers a workable and practical legal and regulatory approach to be taken by the International Civil Aviation Organization. The book also addresses the perceived lack of wisdom in neglecting to consider the basic legal structure of a regulatory regime for commercial space transport as a first step and goes on to analyze ways and means of using the existing legal instruments pertaining to international civil aviation as an analogous system that can be moulded into a separate and cohesive set of multilateral legal instruments that could apply to commercial space transport. As expected, commercial space transport has taken off with a flourish. It is now evident that, from sub-orbital flights to mining asteroids, this industry will grow exponentially. Signs of its importance are reflected by various international conferences being convened on the subject both by academia and the international community. The only snag is the lack of a regulatory instrument or in the least a contrived approach to a definitive legal regime that would provide a structure, purpose and direction to commercial space transport. This blatant lacuna and neglect has resulted in the emergence of various theories by academics and a half hearted look at the subject by the international legal community.

Law. --- Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space. --- Aerospace Technology and Astronautics. --- Production/Logistics/Supply Chain Management. --- Astronautics. --- Droit --- Astronautique --- Space vehicles --- Transportation. --- International Civil Aviation Organization. --- International civil aviation organization --- Production management. --- Law of the sea. --- International law. --- Aerospace engineering. --- Operations Management. --- OACI --- Ground support systems (Astronautics) --- Manufacturing management --- Industrial management --- Space sciences --- Aeronautics --- Astrodynamics --- Space flight --- Aeronautical engineering --- Astronautics --- Engineering --- Law of nations --- Nations, Law of --- Public international law --- Law --- High seas, Jurisdiction over --- Marine law --- Ocean --- Ocean law --- Sea, Law of the --- International law --- Maritime law --- Territorial waters --- Law and legislation --- Law and legislation. --- Aerospace law --- Air law --- Aviation law --- Aviation regulations --- Aeronautics and state --- Space law --- Laws and regulations

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This book teaches readers ground engineering principles and related mining and risk management practices associated with underground coal mining. It establishes the basic elements of risk management and the fundamental principles of ground behaviour and then applies these to the essential building blocks of any underground coal mining system, comprising excavations, pillars, and interactions between workings. Readers will also learn about types of ground support and reinforcement systems and their operating mechanisms. These elements provide the platform whereby the principles can be applied to mining practice and risk management, directed primarily to bord and pillar mining, pillar extraction, longwall mining, sub-surface and surface subsidence, and operational hazards. The text concludes by presenting the framework of risk-based ground control management systems for achieving safe workplaces and efficient mining operations. In addition, a comprehensive reference list provides additional sources of information on the subject. Throughout, a large variety of examples show good and bad mining situations in order to demonstrate the application, or absence, of the established principles in practice. Written by an expert in underground coal mining and risk management, this book will help students and practitioners gain a deep understanding of the basic principles behind designing and conducting mining operations that are safe, efficient, and economically viable. Provides a comprehensive coverage of ground engineering principles within a risk management framework Features a large variety of examples that show good and poor mining situations in order to demonstrate the application of the established principles in practice Ideal for students and practitioners About the author Emeritus Professor Jim Galvin has a relatively unique combination of industrial, research and academic experience in the mining industry that spans specialist research and applied knowledge in ground engineering, mine management and risk management.  His career encompasses directing ground engineering research groups in South Africa and Australia; practical mining experience, including active participation in the mines rescue service and responsibility for the design, operation, and management of large underground coal mines and for the consequences of loss of ground control as a mine manager; appointments as Professor and Head of the School of Mining Engineering at the University of New South Wales; and safety advisor to a number of Boards of Directors of organisations associated with mining.

Hydraulic Engineering --- Civil Engineering --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Hydraulic engineering. --- Mineral resources. --- Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics. --- Mineral Resources. --- Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture). --- Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences. --- Engineering, Hydraulic --- Engineering --- Fluid mechanics --- Hydraulics --- Shore protection --- Deposits, Mineral --- Mineral deposits --- Mineral resources --- Mines and mining --- Mining --- Natural resources --- Geology, Economic --- Minerals --- Engineering geology. --- Engineering—Geology. --- Foundations. --- Hydraulics. --- Fossil fuels. --- Geotechnical engineering. --- Engineering, Geotechnical --- Geotechnics --- Geotechnology --- Engineering geology --- Fossil energy --- Fuel --- Energy minerals --- Flow of water --- Water --- Hydraulic engineering --- Jets --- Architecture --- Building --- Structural engineering --- Underground construction --- Caissons --- Earthwork --- Masonry --- Soil consolidation --- Soil mechanics --- Walls --- Civil engineering --- Flow --- Distribution --- Details --- Geology --- Ground control (Mining) --- Coal mines and mining. --- Mineralogy & gems. --- Coal mining --- Collieries --- Energy industries --- Mines and mineral resources --- Control of ground in mining --- Ground support (Mining) --- Mine subsidences --- Mining engineering --- Rock mechanics