Escaping the Bonds of Earth : The Fifties and the Sixties /

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 spac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Evans, Ben (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Praxis, 2009.
Series:	Springer Praxis books.
Subjects:	Engineering. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics. Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques. Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences. Popular Science in Astronomy. Astronautics. Astronomy. Astrophysics.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.