Asteroids suggest images of a catastrophic impact with Earth, triggering infernos, tidal waves, famine, and death -- but these scenarios have obscured the larger story of how asteroids have been disco
Peebles, a NASA contractor, documents the history of the X-43 project, which involved extensive testing of the first scramjet engine that was capable of speeds of up to Mach 10. The author details bot
“Through extensive research in newly declassified documents and numerous interviews with those who flew these supersensitive air-craft, Peebles reveals the secrets behind such ‘black aircraft’ as the
Peebles' history of US air-supported covert operations against the Soviet Bloc spans the cold war as far as the fall of Saigon. Drawing on recent scholarship and Soviet-era archives, Peebles, an aeros
