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Book Synopsis The First Space Pioneers by : Clyde Harvey
Download or read book The First Space Pioneers written by Clyde Harvey and published by . This book was released on 2005-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pioneers on journeys into outer space endured incredible hardships and dangers. Food was rationed. The space inside the spaceships was very cramped. They traveled in total darkness. Unseen meteorites were a constant and deadly menace. Some of the pioneers were deformed and disabled upon arriving at the planet. A few died en route. Those who arrived in good condition had to start from scratch to build up their communities. The medications that were brought from earth had expired and finding new remedies was a must. Many pioneers soon became wealthy from picking up the gold and gems lying on the ground. Some treasure crafts were hijacked. Many planets were uninhabitable. The pioneers who wandered into a devil's den often were doomed. One spaceship got lost beyond a space warp but the marooned pioneers survived. A group of human-like beings was found on a habitable moon.
Download or read book Space Pioneers written by Robin Kerrod and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2004-07-06 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the history of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spaceflights through 1968, and presents information about the Vostok, Voskhod, Soyuz, and Zond missions.
Download or read book Space Dogs written by Chris Dubbs and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back when scientists knew nothing about space travel, back when rockets were new, a group of Russian cosmonauts rode rockets to the edge of space and into earth orbit. These pioneer space travelers were dogs, space dogs of the Soviet space program.For 15 years, space dogs occupied the world stage, blazing trails as the first astronauts.Their flights taught scientists how living beings reacted to rocket travel and tested the equipment that would be used for human space flight. The age of the space dog extended from the first launch in 1951 until the final, record-breaking dog flight in 1966. Some dogs won world-wide fame. Most of them, however, worked-and died-in obscurity. They were all pioneers of space travel. And no one has ever told their story. Until now.Space Dogs dramatizes the training of the dogs, the harrowing early flights, the tragic accidents, the fame that came to the program after the launch of Laika in Sputnik 2, and the final flights leading up to the first manned flight.Space Dogs includes never-before-published photos from the archives of Novosti, the Russian News Agency.
Book Synopsis The First Space Pioneers by : Clyde B. Harvey
Download or read book The First Space Pioneers written by Clyde B. Harvey and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first pioneers who dared to journey into outer space endured incredible hardships and dangers. Food and water were rationed. They were cramped and bored. Some became deformed.One went insane. Meteorites were a deadly menace. A few spaceships lost their way. The pioneers who arrived in fair health had to struggle and develop colonies from scratch. They succeeded and became unbelievably wealthy by collecting the plentiful gems and precious metals.
Download or read book Space Pioneers written by Steve Parker and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Space Pioneers charts the exploits of a handful of space explorers who have ridden powerful rockets into the stratosphere to brave the icy, airless vacuum of space and accomplish a series of intrepid firsts. Easy-to-read text is packed with sidebar features and illustrated with gorgeous photography depicting technologies, planets, stars, and much more. Each title includes an index and a glossary of terms.
Book Synopsis Salyut - The First Space Station by : Grujica S. Ivanovich
Download or read book Salyut - The First Space Station written by Grujica S. Ivanovich and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-10-22 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Space Pioneers in Their Own Words by : Loretta Hall
Download or read book Space Pioneers in Their Own Words written by Loretta Hall and published by Rio Grande Books. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ninety space pioneers describe their experiences while working on space research and exploration from the 1940s through the space shuttle program. Some of these men and women were well known as astronauts or members of Mission Control for Apollo flights to the Moon, and some were minor players in the programs-people like lab technicians, weather forecasters, welders, and helicopter pilots who supported rocket tests. Their stories disclose events and behind-the-scenes details available nowhere else. They reveal the human experiences of an era that extended from the launch of this planet's first "artificial moon" to routine shuttle missions carrying people and supplies between Earth and the International Space Station. Drawn from the archives of the oral history program supported by the International Space Hall of Fame Foundation, the excerpts describe funny, frightening, and fascinating episodes. They paint the hues of human experience on the canvas of technological achievements. In this book, for the first time, extensive portions of the New Mexico Museum of Space History and International Space Hall of Fame's oral history collection are available to the general public. Supplemented with photographs and annotated for historical context, this presentation offers a unique glimpse into humanity's struggles to become a spacefaring race. That perspective forms an important foundation for the new era of commercial spaceflight and interplanetary exploration.
Download or read book Animals in Space written by Colin Burgess and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is as a detailed, but highly readable and balanced account of the history of animal space flights carried out by all nations, but principally the United States and the Soviet Union. It explores the ways in which animal high-altitude and space flight research impacted on space flight biomedicine and technology, and how the results - both successful and disappointing - allowed human beings to then undertake that same hazardous journey with far greater understanding and confidence. This complete and authoritative book will undoubtedly become the ultimate authority on animal space flights.
Book Synopsis Women Space Pioneers by : Carole S. Briggs
Download or read book Women Space Pioneers written by Carole S. Briggs and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the efforts and accomplishments of some of the first women in space, including Jerrie Cobb, Mae Jemison, Sally K. Ride, Valentina Tereshkova, and Eileen Collins.
Book Synopsis Space Pioneers by : Richard Spilsbury
Download or read book Space Pioneers written by Richard Spilsbury and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2008 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents include: What are Astronauts?; What do Astronauts do in space?; What is it like to live on a spacecraft?; How have Astronauts changed our lives?; What does it take to become an Astronaut?; a timeline of space travel.
Book Synopsis The Astronauts by : L. Gordon Cooper Jr.
Download or read book The Astronauts written by L. Gordon Cooper Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Additional Authors Are Donald K. Slayton, Virgil Grissom, Walter Schirra, Jr., Scott Carpenter, And Alan Shepard, Jr. The Only First Hand Story Of America's Man In Space Project, By The Seven Astronauts Of Project Mercury.
Book Synopsis The Birth of NASA by : Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried
Download or read book The Birth of NASA written by Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the work of the original NASA space pioneers; men and women who were suddenly organized in 1958 from the then National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) into the Space Task Group. A relatively small group, they developed the initial mission concept plans and procedures for the U. S. space program. Then they boldly built hardware and facilities to accomplish those missions. The group existed only three years before they were transferred to the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas, in 1962, but their organization left a large mark on what would follow.Von Ehrenfried's personal experience with the STG at Langley uniquely positions him to describe the way the group was structured and how it reacted to the new demands of a post-Sputnik era. He artfully analyzes how the growing space program was managed and what techniques enabled it to develop so quickly from an operations perspective. The result is a fascinating window into history, amply backed up by first person documentation and interviews.
Book Synopsis A History of the Italian Space Adventure by : Giovanni Caprara
Download or read book A History of the Italian Space Adventure written by Giovanni Caprara and published by Springer. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well-documented and fascinating book tells how, over the centuries, a series of visionaries, scientists, technologists, and politicians fostered the involvement of Italy in space exploration. The lives of these pioneers was often far from easy, yet they persevered. The fruits of their efforts can today be witnessed in Italy’s success within the cutting-edge space sector. Italy’s history in space started at the end of the fourteenth century and continued with the development of fireworks. Later, the nineteenth century marked the beginning of research into rockets in a more scientific way. After World War II, rocket technology was advanced with the aid of German scientists, and in the 1960s Luigi Broglio, the father of Italian space exploration, designed the San Marco satellite. In 1979 the first Italian Space Plan was launched, but it was the foundation of the Italian Space Agency in 1988 that kick-started a program of exploration in various fields of cosmic research. The outcome was construction of the Vega launcher and collaboration in the International Space Station. Now the Italian space industry stands ready to play an important role in the Gateway orbital station. All of this history, and more, is explored in this riveting book.
Book Synopsis William H. Pickering by : Douglas J. Mudgway
Download or read book William H. Pickering written by Douglas J. Mudgway and published by History Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of William H. Pickering, 1910-2004 On the first day of February 1958, three men held aloft a model of Explorer 1, America's first Earth satellite, for the press photographers. That image of William Pickering, Wernher von Braun, and James Van Allen became an icon for America's response to the Sputnik challenge. Von Braun and Van Allen were well known, but who was Pickering? From humble beginnings in a remote country town in New Zealand, Pickering came to California in 1928 and quickly established himself as an outstanding student at the then-new California Institute of Technology (Caltech). At Caltech, Pickering worked under the famous physicist Robert Millikan on cosmic-ray experiments, at that time a relatively new field of physics. In 1944, when Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) was developing rocket propulsion systems for the U.S. Army, Pickering joined the work-force as a technical manager. He quickly established himself as an outstanding leader, and 10 years later, Caltech named him Director of JPL. And then, suddenly, the world changed. In October 1957, the Sputnik satellite startled the world with its spectacular demonstration of Soviet supremacy in space. Pickering led an intense JPL effort that joined with the von Braun and Van Allen teams to answer the Soviet challenge. Eighty-three days later, on 31 January 1958, America's first satellite roared into Earth orbit. A few months after that, Pickering's decision to affiliate JPL with the newly formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration set the basis for his subsequent career and the future of NASA's ambitious program for the exploration of the solar system. In the early days of the space program, failure followed failure as Pickering and his JPL team slowly ascended the learning curve. Eventually, however, NASA and JPL resolve paid off. First the Moon, then Venus, and then Mars yielded their scientific mysteries to JPL spacecraft of ever-increasing sophistication. Within its first decade, JPL-built spacecraft sent back the first close-up photographs of the lunar surface, while others journeyed far beyond the Moon to examine Venus and return the first close-up views of the surface of Mars. Later, even more complex space missions made successful soft-landings on the Moon and on Mars. Pickering's sudden death in March 2004 at the age of 93 was widely reported in the U.S. and overseas. As one NASA official eulogized him, His pioneering work formed the foundation upon which the current program for exploring our solar system was built. On this, the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Space Age, it is proper to remind ourselves of the ordinary people who met the extraordinary challenge to make it happen. (most of this is from the left inside flap of the dust jacket) r
Book Synopsis Forging the Future of Space Science by : National Research Council
Download or read book Forging the Future of Space Science written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From September 2007 to June 2008 the Space Studies Board conducted an international public seminar series, with each monthly talk highlighting a different topic in space and Earth science. The principal lectures from the series are compiled in Forging the Future of Space Science. The topics of these events covered the full spectrum of space and Earth science research, from global climate change, to the cosmic origins of life, to the exploration of the Moon and Mars, to the scientific research required to support human spaceflight. The prevailing messages throughout the seminar series as demonstrated by the lectures in this book are how much we have accomplished over the past 50 years, how profound are our discoveries, how much contributions from the space program affect our daily lives, and yet how much remains to be done. The age of discovery in space and Earth science is just beginning. Opportunities abound that will forever alter our destiny.
Download or read book Man Into Space written by Hermann Oberth and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 5 Greatest Astronauts of The World by : Monika Koli
Download or read book 5 Greatest Astronauts of The World written by Monika Koli and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today space travels are marketed as pleasure trips; organizations are even offering a chance to the citizens of the earth to buy their own piece of land on other celestial bodies including the Moon and Mars. Various Space Programs carried out over the years have been able to achieve what was expected of them in terms of better knowledge of the universe; enhancing a nation’s prestige; aiding in military security efforts and other benefits to the human race in general. Private sector profited out from these once unconceivable space adventures. One of the most important of these is using artificial satellites for telecommunications purposes. The beginning of 21st century also heralded the era of commercialized or privately funded space activities; selling space travels as pleasure adventure trip is one of them. 5 Greatest Astronauts of the World: Exploring the Pioneers of Space Exploration takes readers on a thrilling journey through the lives and achievements of five legendary astronauts who have pushed the boundaries of human exploration in space. From Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, to Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, this book delves into the awe-inspiring stories, challenges, and triumphs of these pioneers. Discover the courage, determination, and scientific contributions that have propelled humanity's quest for knowledge and adventure beyond Earth. Whether you're a space enthusiast, a history buff, or simply curious about the wonders of space exploration, this book invites you to embark on a captivating exploration of the human spirit and our eternal quest for discovery. space exploration, astronauts, space pioneers, space missions, NASA, cosmonauts, space discoveries, scientific achievements, space technology, human spaceflight, space agencies, space race, astronaut biographies, space adventures, space science.
