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  title info:
    title: Gemini 4
    sub title: An Astronaut Steps into the Void
  name:
    name part: Shayler, David J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXV, 378 p. 81 illus., 46 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: The flight of Gemini 4 in June 1965 was conducted barely four years after the first Americans flew in space. It was a bold step by NASA to accomplish the first American spacewalk and to extend the U.S. flight duration record to four days. This would be double the experience gained from the six Mercury missions combined. This daring mission was the first to be directed from the new Mission Control at the Manned Spacecraft Center near Houston, Texas. It also revealed that: Working outside the spacecraft would require further study. Developing the techniques to rendezvous with another object in space would not be as straightforward as NASA had hoped. Living in a small spacecraft for several days was a challenging but necessary step in the quest for even longer flights. Despite the risks, the gamble that astronauts Jim McDivitt and Ed White undertook paid off. Gemini 4 gave NASA the confidence to attempt an even longer flight the next time. That next mission would simulate the planned eight-day duration of an Apollo lunar voyage. Its story is recounted in the next title in this series: Gemini 5: Eight Days in Space or Bust.
  table of contents: Preface -- Chapter 1: Stepping into the void -- Chapter 2: Dressed for the occasion -- Chapter 3: Jim and Ed -- Chapter 4: Steps towards space -- Chapter 5: School for controllers -- Chapter 6: "We're on our way, buddy!" -- Chapter 7: He's out! He's floating free -- Chapter 8: A streamlined Gemini capsule -- Chapter 9: Something else up here -- Chapter 10: This thing isn't very big -- Chapter 11: Computer malfunction -- Chapter 12: Final orbits -- Chapter 13: "We're about ready to come down! -- Chapter 14: Post-flight -- Chapter 15: A significant contribution -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- About the author -- Other works by the author -- Index.
  note: by David J. Shayler.
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Aerospace engineering
  subject:
    topic: Astronautics
  subject:
    topic: Space sciences
  subject:
    topic: Technology
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
  subject:
    topic: Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Technology
  classification: QB1-991
  classification: 520
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Space Exploration
  identifier: 9783319766751
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76675-1
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    record creation date: 181218
    record change date: 20191024022150.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-76675-1