Manned Spaceflight Log II20062012

• Main Authors: Shayler, David J. (Author), Shayler, Michael D. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books ; 158
• Subjects: Engineering.; Astrophysics.; Astronomy.; Astronautics.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4577-7

April 12, 1961 "Attention! This is Radio Moscow speaking...The world's first satellite spaceship, Vostock, with a man aboard, was put into orbit round the Earth." Soviet Union cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin becomes the first person to fly in space, completing one orbit in 108 minutes. Apri...

Table of Contents:

• New foreword by Colonel Alfred M. Worden
• Reaching the Heavens in the Quest for Space
• In the Steps of Gagarin  Human Spaceflight Operations 1961-2012
• The New Mission Entries September 2006 through September 2012
• New Horizons to 2020 and Beyond
• Tables
• Manned Spaceflight Logbook 1961-2012
• Cumulative World Manned Spaceflight Experience 1961-2012
• World EVA Log 1965-2012
• Cumulative World EVA Log 1965-2012
• Future Flight Manifest Towards 2020 and Beyond
• Steps in History: A Selected Chronology of Manned Spaceflight History.