Escaping the Bonds of Earth The Fifties and the Sixties /

• Main Author: Evans, Ben. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Praxis, 2009.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Engineering.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Astronautics.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79094-7

To commemorate the momentous 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarins pioneering journey into space on 12th April 2011, a series of five books  to be published annually  will explore this half century, decade by decade, to discover how humanitys knowledge of flying, working and living in space has chan...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• From the East - The Vostok missions
• Monkeys to Men - The Mercury missions
• Space Spectaculars - The twin Voskhod missions
• Pushing the Envelope - The Gemini missions
• Disaster and Revival - The Soyuz 1 and Apollo 1 tragedies and aftermath
• To the Moon - The United States drive for the Moon, up to Apollo 14
• At Home in Space - Soviet direction changes from lunar exploration to long-term space stations
• Epilogue The progress of the human space program in the 1960s.