Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Escaping the Bonds of Earth: The Fifties and the Sixties

Escaping the Bonds of Earth: The Fifties and the Sixties
Escaping the Bonds of Earth: The Fifties and the Sixties
Praxis | 2009 | ISBN: 0387790934 | 464 pages | PDF | 16,2 MB

The Introduction sets the scene with early plans to explore space, balloon flights and such details as the development of pressure suits. Each of the Vostok missions is then covered in depth, together with unmanned precursor flights, subsequent plans and the development of Voskhod. Chapter 2 studies the Mercury missions together with unmanned and monkey flights, the development of the Redstone and Atlas boosters and the ill-fated Dyna-Soar, while the twin Voskhod missions, including the first three-man space crew, first spacewalk and plans for subsequent Voskhods to extend time in space are covered in the third chapter. Each of the Gemini missions are

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