TIM PEAKE and BRITAIN'S ROAD TO SPACE

• Main Author: Seedhouse, Erik (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Popular works.; Great Britain > History.; Russia > History.; Europe, Eastern > History.; History.; Astronomy.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).; Russian, Soviet, and East European History.; History of Britain and Ireland.; History of Science.

This book puts the reader in the flight suit of Britain’s first male astronaut, Tim Peake. It chronicles his life, along with the Principia mission and the down-to-the-last-bolt descriptions of life aboard the ISS, by way of the hurdles placed by the British government and the rigors of training at...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: 26 million horsepower
• Chapter 2: You mean we have a space program?
• Chapter 3: Right place, right time
• Chapter 4: Britain's astronauts
• Chapter 5: It was a beautiful launch
• Chapter 6: A brilliant ambassador
• Chapter 7: Principia part 2
• Chapter 8: So how did he do?
• Appendix I
• Appendix II
• Appendix III
• Appendix IV
• Appendix V
• Appendix VI
• Index.