Escaping the Bonds of Earth The Fifties and the Sixties /

To commemorate the momentous 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering journey into space on 12th April 2011, a series of five books - to be published annually - will explore this half century, decade by decade, to discover how humanity's knowledge of flying, working and living in spac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Evans, Ben (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Praxis, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
Colección:Space Exploration,
Temas:
Aerospace engineering.
Astronautics.
Astronomy.
Astronomy-Observations.
Solar system.
Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.
Astronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences.
Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.
Space Physics.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • From the East - The Vostok missions
  • Monkeys to Men - The Mercury missions
  • Space Spectaculars - The twin Voskhod missions
  • Pushing the Envelope - The Gemini missions
  • Disaster and Revival - The Soyuz 1 and Apollo 1 tragedies and aftermath
  • To the Moon - The United States' drive for the Moon, up to Apollo 14
  • At Home in Space - Soviet direction changes from lunar exploration to long-term space stations
  • Epilogue The progress of the human space program in the 1960s.

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