Escaping the bonds of Earth : the fifties and the sixties / Ben Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Ben, 1976-

Series:

Space Exploration

Springer Praxis books. Space exploration

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space flight--History--20th century.

Space flight.

Astronautics--United States--History--20th century.

Astronautics.

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (504 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2009.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Springer ; Chichester, UK : In association with Praxis Publishing, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 space has changed. Each volume will focus not only upon the individual missions within ‘its’ decade, but also upon the key challenges facing human space exploration at specific points within those 50 years: from the simple problems of breathing and eating in space to the challenges of venturing outside in a pressurised spacesuit and locomotion on the Moon. The first volume of this series will focus upon the 1960s, exploring each mission from April 1961 to April 1971 in depth: from the pioneering Vostok flights to the establishment of the first Salyut space station and from Alan Shepard’s modest sub-orbital ‘hop’ into space to his triumphant arrival at the Moon’s Fra Mauro foothills almost a decade later.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612826313

9781282826311

128282631X

9780387790947

0387790942

OCLC:

651126905