Ben Evans: Escaping the Bonds of Earth

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

Ben Evans is an accomplished and experienced space writer ideally qualified to chronicle the epic story of human space exploration. In addition to writing five books for Springer/Praxis, including the first book in this series: Escaping the Bonds of Earth: The Fifties and Sixties (2009) and the most recent Foothold in the Heavens - The Seventies (2010), he has published numerous space and astronomy related articles in such journals as Spaceflight, Countdown, and Astronomy Now.

Zusammenfassung

Nominated for the 2009 Emme Award

Uniquely chronicles and divides human space exploration into five annually published instalments

Details the stories of missions, their crews and their contribution to our progress in Space

Provides a balanced account of the aspirations, frustrations and achievements of early human spaceflighs

Offers, in the first volume, a fresh treatment to the subject of human space exploration in the 1960s

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2009
Fachbereich:	Raumfahrttechnik
Genre:	Importe , Technik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Springer Praxis Books
Inhalt:	xviii 494 S. 170 s/w Illustr. 494 p. 170 illus.
ISBN-13:	9780387790930
ISBN-10:	0387790934
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	12032358
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Evans, Ben
Hersteller:	Praxis Springer Springer US, New York, N.Y. Springer Praxis Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	242 x 170 x 28 mm
Von/Mit:	Ben Evans
Erscheinungsdatum:	30.06.2009
Gewicht:	0,867 kg