Escaping the Bonds of Earth The Fifties and the Sixties /

• Main Author: Evans, Ben (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Praxis, 2009.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Engineering.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Space sciences.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.

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 chan...

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.