Escaping the Bonds of Earth [[electronic resource] ] : The Fifties and the Sixties / / by Ben Evans

• Autore: Evans Ben
• Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Praxis, , 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2009.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (504 p.)
• Disciplina: 629.4097309046
• Soggetto topico: Aerospace engineering; Astronautics; Astronomy; Astrophysics; Observations, Astronomical; Astronomy—Observations; Space sciences; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics; Popular Science in Astronomy; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Escaping the Bonds of Earth
• ISBN: 1-282-82631-X; 9786612826313; 0-387-79094-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781178503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Space Exploration