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U. S. Spacesuits
Spacesuits are far more than garments. They are a personalized spacecraft that allows direct contact and interaction with everything beyond our world, and a last refuge for survival in a disaster. Creating safe, reliable, and comfortable spacesuits is an ongoing challenge that has spanned over four...
| 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: Springer,
2012.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. 2012. |
| Colección: | Space Exploration,
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Editorial notes
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Reaching upward and outward
- Chapter 3: The basics of spacesuits
- Chapter 4: Launch/entry spacesuits: Past, present, and possibly future
- Chapter 5: Gemini: The first approaches to exploring and working in space
- Chapter 6: Apollo: Mankind starts the exploration of the Moon
- Chapter 7: Advanced development for canceled Apollo missions
- Chapter 8: U.S. Air Force spacesuits
- Chapter 9: Skylab and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project suit systems (1969-1975)
- Chapter 10: The Space Shuttle program: Orbital EVA comes of age
- Chapter 11: The quest for future extravehicular activity and planetary exploration
- Chapter 12: Epilogue
- Appendix A: U.S. spaceflight suit system overview
- Appendix B: U.S. EVA information
- Bibliography
- Index.