Gemini Flies! Unmanned Flights and the First Manned Mission /

• Main Author: Shayler, David J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Space Exploration
• Subjects: Technology.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Space sciences.; Popular Science in Technology.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).

In May 1961, President John F. Kennedy committed the United States to landing a man on the moon before the end of the decade. With just a handful of years to pull it off, NASA authorized the Project Gemini space program, which gathered vital knowledge needed to achieve the nation's goal. This b...

Table of Contents:

• Author's Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Dedication
• Foreword by Colin Burgess
• Abbreviations and Acronyms
• Prologue: Molly Brown is on her way
• Chapter 1: Mercury Mark II
• Chapter 2: A "Clean and Green" Flying Machine
• Chapter 3: Ramming the Atmosphere
• Chapter 4: Preparations
• Chapter 5: Guts and John
• Chapter 6: All Systems Look Go
• Chapter 7: Molly Brown "Performing Nicely"
• Chapter 8: Got Your Seat Belts Hooked?
• Chapter 9: The Unsinkable Molly Brown. Chapter 10: Gemini Operational
• Appendix I
• Appendix II
• Appendix III
• Bibliography
• About the author
• Other works by the author
• Index.