Furniss / David Praxis Manned Spaceflight Log 1961-2006

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-73980-9
Verlag: Praxis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 830 Seiten

Praxis Log of Manned Spaceflight 1961-2006 will open with a section entitled: Quest for Space, which will provide an explanation of the methods employed to get in and out of orbit and brief overviews of the different international space programmes. It will be a complete chronological log of all attempted orbital manned spaceflights, including the X-15 "astroflights" of the 1960s that only achieved an altitude of c. 50 miles and the two 1961 Mercury and Redstone missions which were non-orbital. There will be an image depicting each manned spaceflight, and data boxes containing brief biographies of all the space travellers and basic flight data. The main text will be a narrative of each mission, its highlights and accomplishments, including those strange facts and humorous stories that are connected to every mission.

By targeting publication in September 2006, the return to flight of the Shuttle, two more Soyuz TMA launches and, quite possibly, a second Chinese manned mission. The resulting book will be a handy reference to all manned spaceflights, the names astronauts and cosmonauts who flew on each mission, and their roles and accomplishments. Recent announcements of a return to the Moon and eventual manned flights to Mars, as new hardware and procedures are developed to support these long-range programs, emphasizes the case for future updates of this book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Furniss, Tim

David, Shayler

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;5
2;Author's Preface;13
3;Acknowledgements;15
4;Foreword;17
5;Illustrations;21
6;Other Works by the Authors;28
7;Prologue;30
8;Reaching the Heavens;33
9;The Quest for Space;51
10;The Orbital Programmes;69
11;The First Decade: 1961-1970;89
12;The Second Decade: 1971-1980;176
13;The Third Decade: 1981-1990;270
14;The Fourth Decade: 1991-2000;443
15;The Fifth Decade: 2001-2006;701
16;The Next Steps;804
17;Appendix A;810
18;Appendix B;824
19;Appendix C;841
20;Appendix D;847
21;Bibliography;854