Escaping the Bonds of Earth (eBook)
XVIII, 494 Seiten
Springer New York (Verlag)
978-0-387-79094-7 (ISBN)
To commemorate the momentous 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's 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 humanity's knowledge of flying, working and living in space has changed. Each volume will focus not only upon the individual missions within 'its' decade, but also upon the key challenges facing human space exploration at specific points within those 50 years: from the simple problems of breathing and eating in space to the challenges of venturing outside in a pressurised spacesuit and locomotion on the Moon.
The first volume of this series will focus upon the 1960s, exploring each mission from April 1961 to April 1971 in depth: from the pioneering Vostok flights to the establishment of the first Salyut space station and from Alan Shepard's modest sub-orbital 'hop' into space to his triumphant arrival at the Moon's Fra Mauro foothills almost a decade later.
To commemorate the momentous 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering journey into space on 12th April 2011, a series of five books - to be published annually until 2011 - will explore this half century, decade by decade, to discover how humanity's knowledge of flying, working and living in space has changed. Each volume will focus not only upon the individual missions within 'its' decade, but also upon the key challenges facing human space exploration at specific points within those 50 years: from the simple problems of breathing and eating in space to the challenges of venturing outside in a pressurised spacesuit and locomotion on the Moon.The first volume of this series will focus upon the 1960s, exploring each mission from April 1961 to April 1971 in depth: from the pioneering Vostok flights to the establishment of the first Salyut space station and from Alan Shepard's modest sub-orbital 'hop' into space to his triumphant arrival at the Moon's Fra Mauro foothills almost a decade later.The Introduction sets the scene with early plans to explore space, balloon flights and such details as the development of pressure suits. Each of the Vostok missions is then covered in depth, together with unmanned precursor flights, subsequent plans and the development of Voskhod. Chapter 2 studies the Mercury missions together with unmanned and monkey flights, the development of the Redstone and Atlas boosters and the ill-fated Dyna-Soar, while the twin Voskhod missions, including the first three-man space crew, first spacewalk and plans for subsequent Voskhods to extend time in space are covered in the third chapter. Each of the Gemini missions are then described, as well as why and how the United States managed to achieve such a 'lead' over the Soviet Union, practising techniques for lunar landings, the development of spacesuit technology for extravehicular activities, 'Blue Gemini' and the Manned Orbiting Laboratory. The Soyuz 1 and Apollo 1 tragedies and aftermath, including redesign, changes to future plans and the effect of Korolev's death precede a chapter on the United States' drive for the Moon, up to Apollo 14, including the challenges facing the first lunar explorers, the consistency of lunar soil and the development of spacesuits to handle locomotion. This first volume ends with an analysis of Soviet direction changes from lunar exploration to long-term space stations (Soyuz 3 to 10 and the development of Salyut 1) and the progress of the human space program in the 1960s and plans for space exploration in the next decade.Each of the next four volumes will follow at yearly intervals, the final one coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Gagarin's epic journey:
Table of Contents
6
Illustrations
10
Author's preface
13
Acknowledgements
15
1 From the East
16
CONTRASTS
16
VEIL OF SECRECY
18
'STAR SAILORS'
29
FARMBOY
31
"LET'S GO!"
33
REACTION
39
THE BAY OF PIGS
42
A DAY IN ORBIT
44
TEACHER'S SON
47
SPEACE SICKNESS
48
THE WALL RISES
51
SPACE DUET
53
STARFISH PRIME
55
AN IRON MAN AND "A PUZZLE"
56
FLYING FALCON, SOARING EAGLE
58
OCTOBER CRISIS
61
A WOMAN IN SPACE
64
THE PERFECT CANDIDATE?
66
"ROMANOV AND JULIET"
68
RETURN TO EARTH
71
2 Monkeys to Men
74
HEROES
74
A MAN IN SPACE
76
THE COMPETITOR
84
DIFFERENT WORLD
86
"WE GAVE IT AWAY"
87
"LIGHT THIS CANDLE!"
100
TO GO TO THE MOON
110
GRUFF GUS
113
ROOM WITH A (BETTER) VIEW
115
"THE FIRST THING I HAD EVER LOST"
119
'GAS BAG'
123
THE ALL-AMERICAN
128
SPY SWAP
131
THE BEST ... AT LAST
132
AN AMERICAN IN ORBIT
137
"LEAVE THE RETRO PACKAGE ON"
140
EUPHORIA, DISAPPOINTMENT ... AND A BOSS
144
'BLACK-SHOE' CARPENTER
149
SCIENCE FLIGHT
151
RISE AND FALL OF THE AURORA
155
PUSHING THE ENVELOPE
164
THE JOKER
166
THE SIX CIRCUITS OF SIGMA 7
169
FIRE HOSES AND POLICE DOGS
176
THE END ...
178
HOTSHOT
182
LAST MERCURY OUT
185
3 Space Spectaculars
193
JOURNEY TO SPACE
193
SARDINES
197
"THE WORLD'S FIRST PASSENGER SPACESHIP"
202
FROM THAW TO STAGNATION
205
RISKY ENDEAVOUR
206
A WALK OUTSIDE
211
NEAR-DISASTER
215
DECLINE
220
4 Pushing the Envelope
224
MEN WITH MISSIONS
224
GROUNDED
231
A NEW SPACECRAFT
233
ASSASSINATION
246
CREWLESS SUCCESSES
248
ALL ABOURD THE 'MOLLY BROWN'
250
THE ASTRONAUT
256
BLOODSHED IN ALABAMA
258
CORNED BEEF SANDWICH
259
ONWARD, UPWARD ... AND OUTSIDE
261
DISCIPLINE, PERSISTENCE, DEDICATION
266
FALSE START
268
INSIDE MAN
270
OUTSIDE MAN
271
RECORD BREAKERS
274
"HOW MANY BOYS, LBJ?"
277
WISEGUY
279
"EIGHT DAYS OR BUST"
281
CHANGED PLANS
290
TWINS?
297
THREE HUNDRED HOURS IN SPACE
301
LONG HAUL
302
"SITTIN' HERE BREATHING"
306
FIRECRACKERS, FOOTBALLING AND THE F-86
308
RENDEZVOUS!
310
5 Onward and Upward
317
TRAGEDY
317
DEMISE OF THE DYNA-SOAR
321
QUIET CIVILIAN
325
FIRST AMONG EQUALS
327
TRAINING
330
"SMOOTH AS GLASS"
334
"TUMBLING END-OVER-END"
339
PACIFIC RETURN
342
ROCKET ARMCHAIRS AND FIREPROOF PANTS
347
THE SUBSTITUTE
349
THIRD TIME LUCKY
351
THE ANGRY ALLIGATOR
354
HELLISH SPACEWALK
358
"NOTHING SPECIAL"
364
SUCCESS AT LAST
367
'ANIMAL'
376
'M EQUALS 1"
378
HIGH RIDE
382
CONQUEST OF THE 'HIGH GROUND'
390
DR. RENDEZVOUS
394
THE END
397
6 Disaster, Recovery, Triumph
404
"FIRE"
404
MOONSHIP
415
WITCH HUNT
425
OUTER SPACE TREATY
429
FALL FROM HEAVEN
430
SLOW RECOVERY
441
MY LAI
449
'THE WALLY, WALT AND DONN SHOW'
450
WALT AND 'WHATSHISNAME'
461
"101 PER CENT SUCCESSFUL"
462
SOYUZ RESURGENT
464
"NOT A PRIORITY"
469
MOONWARD BOUND
474
OUTSIDER
477
C-PRIME
478
SAVED
490
Bibliography
495
ARTICLES
495
BOOKS
496
Index
500
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.4.2010 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Space Exploration | Springer Praxis Books |
| Zusatzinfo | XVIII, 494 p. 170 illus. |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik |
| Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau | |
| Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik | |
| Schlagworte | Apollo missions • gemini missions • mercury missions • Moon • space • space exploration |
| ISBN-10 | 0-387-79094-2 / 0387790942 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-387-79094-7 / 9780387790947 |
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