The Ordinary Spaceman : From Boyhood Dreams to Astronaut /
"What's it like to travel at more than 850 MPH, riding in a supersonic T-38 twin turbojet engine airplane? What happens when the space station toilet breaks? How do astronauts 'take out the trash' on a spacewalk, tightly encapsulated in a space suit with just a few layers of fabr...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
2015.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- First Flight
- Beginnings
- Freshman Fifteen
- Hey, There's an App for That!
- Answer the Phone, Will Ya?
- Baby Astronauts
- Hail Columbia!
- Age of Aquarius
- From Russia with Love
- Survival of the Fittest
- Sign of the Times
- Sixty-Two and Counting
- Dark Days of Summer
- Crime and Punishment
- The "Void" of Outer Space
- The Doctor Is In
- The Hard Thump of Reality
- The Serendipity of Chance
- Walking Tall
- Fame and Fortune
- Find Us Faithful
- Impacts
- The End Becomes the Beginning.