mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2014-07-08 | Author:Jay Barbree

With the moon closer to them than Earth, the astronauts had a crater-potted lunar surface staring them in the face. (NASA) It was a splendid, epochal moment sixty-nine hours and ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-04 | Author:Jay Barbree & Jay Barbree & Deke Slayton [Shepard, Alan]

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 ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Chris Gainor [Gainor, Chris]

Breaking the Sound Barrier Humans, not just animals, were also being subjected to new speeds and acceleration forces in the first decade after the war, sometimes with similarly fatal results. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2000-04-11 | Author:Gene Kranz [Kranz, Gene]

I recognized a few of the Thompson committee members. Frank Borman, the Gemini astronaut, and Max Faget, the director of engineering, were from MSC, and John Williams was from the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-02 | Author:Roach, Mary [Roach, Mary]

MISSION CONTROL: Gemini VII, this is Surgeon. Frank, do you have any lotion remaining? BORMAN: Any lotion? MISSION CONTROL: Roger. BORMAN: We have some but we sure don’t need it, ...

epub |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Eugene Cernan [Cernan, Eugene]

17 The Magnificent Beast DON RRICKLES, WHO MADE his living needling the high and mighty, did me no favor one evening during his freewheeling comedy act in Las Vegas. Alan ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:James R. Hansen [Hansen, James R.]

On the one hand to dwell in the very center of technological reality…yet to inhabit—if only in one’s dreams—that other world where death, metaphysics and the unanswerable questions of eternity ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-26 | Author:Al Worden [Worden, Al]

CHAPTER 8 LAUNCH You never forget launch day. Finally, your mission is about to begin. You are in a special zone, like an athlete walking out for an Olympic event. ...

epub |eng | 2012-02-27 | Author:Neil Degrasse Tyson & Avis Lang [Tyson, Neil Degrasse & Lang, Avis]

• • • CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT SPACE TRAVEL TROUBLES* Listening to space enthusiasts talk about space travel or watching blockbuster science-fiction movies might make you think that sending people to the ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Mary Roach

MISSION CONTROL: Gemini VII, this is Surgeon. Frank, do you have any lotion remaining? BORMAN: Any lotion? MISSION CONTROL: Roger. BORMAN: We have some but we sure don’t need it, ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ben Evans

Seventh time lucky 239 pressure oxidiser turbopump discharge ducts to determine that they were of the correct thickness. Also during the delay period, one of Columbia's five flight deck computers ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Paul Gilster

mobi |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:William Burrows

* By way of reemphasizing that no tricks were being played, Korolyov not only had Nikolayev and Popovich communicate over open radio channels, describing each other’s spacecraft, but they made ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-08-10 | Author:Jay Barbree

mobi, epub, pdf | | 2009-12-26 | Author:Tom Wolfe

Well, there were some big grins, all right, up in the high desert, at Edwards, among the brethren. Here were some men who had something to smile about. Now the ...