Engineering & Transportation
epub |eng | 2010-10-14 | Author:David M. Harland

Toehiro Akiyama (left), Musa Manarov and Viktor Afanasayev. When Soyuz-TM 11 docked at Mir's front port on 4 December, it delivered Viktor Afanasayev, Musa Manarov and Toehiro Akiyama, who was ...
( Category: Engineering September 19,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:David Hitt & Owen K. Garriott & Joe P. Kerwin

9. HIGH PERFORMANCE What is it like living in space, not just visiting for a little while but actually setting up a home and living and working there for two ...
( Category: Engineering September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-27 | Author:Burgess, Colin [Burgess, Colin]

Then the voice of CapCom Deke Slayton came through. “José? Do you read me, José?” “I read you loud and clear, Deke,” Shepard replied. “Don’t cry too much,” Deke said ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation September 19,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Norman Mailer [Mailer, Norman]

VI Long before, almost two and a half days before, not a half hour after the third stage had completed its five and a half minute burn and pushed Apollo ...
( Category: Technology September 19,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Barbree, Jay & Shepard, Alan & Slayton, Deke [Barbree, Jay]

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Apollo 8: First Around the Moon APOLLO 8 COMMANDER FRANK BORMAN was emerging from a deep sleep, and he resisted the wakefulness that tugged at him. Where am ...
( Category: Engineering September 19,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-08-22 | Author:Greene, John A. [Greene, John A.]

( Category: Astronomy & Space Science September 19,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-02-15 | Author:Link, Mae Mills [Link, Mae Mills]

In the various research projects preceding Project Mercury, considerable attention had been given to the problems of acceleration and reentry forces of manned space flight. Indeed, these may be said ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Treadwell, Terry C

CHAPTER SIX THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SPACE SHUTTLE After the success of the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Skylab missions, and the excitement of men walking on another world had died ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation September 19,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Vaughan, Diane [Vaughan, Diane]

Chapter Eight THE EVE OF THE LAUNCH REVISITED We now return to the eve of the launch. Accounts emphasizing valiant attempts by Thiokol engineers to stop the launch, actions of ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Ezell, Edward Clinton; Ezell, Linda Neuman; Dickson, Paul & Linda Neuman Ezell

Table 47 Viking Demonstration and Training Tests Date Test Nature and Results 2 July DT-2 Processing uplink commands to lander through orbiter for cruise checkout. Data processing went well, but ...
( Category: Engineering September 19,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1993-10-01 | Author:Freeman, Marsha [Freeman, Marsha]

* * * Chapter VII The Space Age Begins! By the time the German space pioneers arrived in America, they had faced numerous difficulties. Many had done rocket experiments through ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Green, Constance McLaughlin; Lomask, Milton; Dickson, Paul & Milton Lomask

9 THE TRACKING SYSTEMS TRACKING, as the term indicates, means measuring the position of a moving object, natural or man-made. Optical tracking with sighting instruments is as old as astronomy, ...
( Category: Engineering September 19,2017 )