Tragedy And Triumph In Orbit
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Tragedy And Triumph In Orbit
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Author : Ben Evans
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-06-01
Tragedy And Triumph In Orbit written by Ben Evans and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-01 with Technology & Engineering categories.
April 12, 2011 is the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering journey into space. To commemorate this momentous achievement, Springer-Praxis is producing a mini series of books that reveals how humanity’s knowledge of flying, working, and living in space has grown in the last half century. “Tragedy and Triumph” focuses on the 1980s and early 1990s, a time when relations between the United States and the Soviet Union swung like a pendulum between harmony and outright hostility. The glorious achievements of the shuttle were violently arrested by the devastating loss of Challenger in 1986, while the Soviet program appeared to prosper with the last Salyut and the next-generation Mir orbital station. This book explores the continued rivalry between the two superpowers during this period, with each attempting to outdo the other – the Americans keen to build a space station, the Soviets keen to build a space shuttle – and places their efforts in the context of a bitterly divisive decade, which ultimately led them into partnership.
Salyut The First Space Station
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Author : Grujica S. Ivanovich
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2008-10-22
Salyut The First Space Station written by Grujica S. Ivanovich and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-22 with Science categories.
This remarkable book gives a comprehensive account of the longest manned space mission of the time. It details for the first time the people involved and the crews assigned to operate the first space station Salyut. The book portrays the selection of the crews, dramatic flights and tragedy of Soyuz 11. Biographies of the Soyuz 11 cosmonauts are published for the first time in English. The book relates discussions between the key personnel, and investigates the causes of the tragedy. The book ends with memories of all those affected by the DOS program and the tragedy of Soyuz 11 and looks forward to a continuation of the historic mission of Salyut.
Partnership In Space
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Author : Ben Evans
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-10-04
Partnership In Space written by Ben Evans and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-04 with Technology & Engineering categories.
April 12, 2011 was the 50th Anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering journey into space. To commemorate this momentous achievement, Springer-Praxis has produced a mini-series of books that reveals how humanity's knowledge of flying, working, and living in space has grown in the last half century. "Partners in Space" focuses on the early to late 1990s, a time in the post-Soviet era when relations between East and West steadily - though not without difficulty - thawed and the foundations of real harmony and genuine co-operation were laid for the first time with Shuttle-Mir and the International Space Station. This book explores the events which preceded that new ear, including the political demise of Space Station Freedom and the consequences of the fall of the Soviet Union on a once-proud human space program. It traces the history of "the Partnership" through the often traumatic times of Shuttle-Mir and closes on the eve of the launch of Zarya, the first component of today's International Space Station.
Test Gods
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Author : Nicholas Schmidle
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2021-05-06
Test Gods written by Nicholas Schmidle and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-06 with Science categories.
'Masterly' New York Times 'Riveting' Scott Kelly 'Remarkable' The Times When Richard Branson founded Virgin Galactic in 2004, his goal was simple: to offer paying customers a trip to space by the end of the decade. Seventeen years, countless delays, and one catastrophic crash later, his space tourism dream may finally be on the verge of reality. Now, a New Yorker journalist offers the definitive portrait of the adventurers leading the way to the stars. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews with Virgin's lead test pilot, Mark Stucky, Test Gods describes the making of a modern astronaut: from starry-eyed youth to NASA, the Air Force, and Virgin Galactic; and through dozens of gruelling test flights to his first successful trip beyond the earth's atmosphere. The result is the most vivid exploration of an astronaut's inner life since Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff. It offers an intimate and unique insight into the new space race.
The Twenty First Century In Space
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Author : Ben Evans
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-12-15
The Twenty First Century In Space written by Ben Evans and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-15 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This final entry in the History of Human Space Exploration mini-series by Ben Evans continues with an in-depth look at the latter part of the 20th century and the start of the new millennium. Picking up where Partnership in Space left off, the story commemorating the evolution of manned space exploration unfolds in further detail. More than fifty years after Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering journey into space, Evans extends his overview of how that momentous voyage continued through the decades which followed. The Twenty-first Century in Space, the sixth book in the series, explores how the fledgling partnership between the United States and Russia in the 1990s gradually bore fruit and laid the groundwork for today’s International Space Station. The narrative follows the convergence of the Shuttle and Mir programs, together with standalone missions, including servicing the Hubble Space Telescope, many of whose technical and human lessons enabled the first efforts to build the ISS in orbit. The book also looks to the future of developments in the 21st century.
The Mammoth Book Of Space Exploration And Disasters
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Author : Richard Russell Lawrence
language : en
Publisher: Running Press
Release Date : 2005-01-11
The Mammoth Book Of Space Exploration And Disasters written by Richard Russell Lawrence and has been published by Running Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-11 with Science categories.
In the words of those who trod the void and others based at mission control, here are more than fifty of the greatest true stories of suborbital, orbital, and deep space exploration. From Apollo 8's first view of a tortured landscape of craters on the "dark side" of the Moon to a series of cliff-hanger crises aboard space station Mir, The Mammoth Book of Space Exploration and Disasters offers moments of extraordinary heroic achievement as well as episodes of terrible human cost. High points include the classic, nail-biting account of abandoning Apollo 13 on the way to the Moon and Jerry Linenger's panic attack during a space walk where he was "just out there dangling."
Challenger
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Author : Oliver Lancaster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-07-31
Challenger written by Oliver Lancaster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-31 with categories.
"Challenger: Tragedy and Triumph - Unraveling the Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion" delves into the heart-wrenching events surrounding the ill-fated STS-51-L mission. This comprehensive account explores the mission's purpose, the tragic explosion, the investigation, and the far-reaching impact on NASA, space exploration, and the human spirit.
Space Exploration
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Author : Kim Masters Evans
language : en
Publisher: Information Plus
Release Date : 2006-09
Space Exploration written by Kim Masters Evans and has been published by Information Plus this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09 with Science categories.
A compilation of current and historical statistics -- with analysis -- on Space Exploration.
Space Exploration
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Author : Kimberly Masters Evans
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Space Exploration written by Kimberly Masters Evans and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Outer space categories.
Space Science And The Arab World
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Author : Jörg Matthias Determann
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-01-29
Space Science And The Arab World written by Jörg Matthias Determann and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-29 with Science categories.
When Sultan bin Salman left Earth on the shuttle Discovery in 1985, he became the first Arab, first Muslim and first member of a royal family in space. Twenty-five years later, the discovery of a planet 500 light years away by the Qatar Exoplanet Survey - subsequently named `Qatar-1b' - was evidence of the cutting-edge space science projects taking place across the Middle East. This book identifies the individuals, institutions and national ideologies that enabled Arab astronomers and researchers to gain support for space exploration when Middle East governments lacked interest. Jorg Matthias Determann shows that the conquest of space became associated with national prestige, security, economic growth and the idea of an `Arab renaissance' more generally. Equally important to this success were international collaborations: to benefit from American and Soviet expertise and technology, Arab scientists and officials had to commit to global governance of space and the common interests of humanity. Challenging the view that the golden age of Arabic science and cosmopolitanism was situated in the medieval period, Determann tells the story of the new discoveries and scientific collaborations taking place from the 19th century to the present day. An innovative contribution to Middle East studies and history of science, the book also appeals to increased business, media and political interest in the Arab space industry.