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US Spacesuits
Ken Thomas and Joe McMann have produced a magni?cent treatise on spacesuits, spacewalking, life support systems and escape systems. US Spacesuits is historical, massively comprehensive, precise, informative, relevant and readable. As an astronaut I spent 30 years in their world and in their suits. M...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Praxis,
2006.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2006. |
| Colección: | Space Exploration,
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Reaching upward and outward
- The basics of spacesuits
- Crew escape, rescue and survival spacesuits
- Gemini: The first approaches to exploring and working in space
- Apollo: Mankind starts the exploration of the Moon
- Advanced development for cancelled Apollo missions
- US Air Force spacesuits
- Skylab and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project suit systems (1969-75)
- The Space Shuttle program: Orbital EVA comes of age
- The next generation of spacesuits
- Epilogue.