Manned Spaceflight Log II—2006–2012, 2013 Space Exploration Series
Auteurs : Shayler David J., Shayler Michael D.
The first chapter explains how human spaceflight has approached the different challenges of exploring space and provided the hardware to meet those challenges. This chapter also describes the various attempts to reach orbital flight and the often confusing distinction between ballistic, sub-orbital, and so-called ?astro-flights? of the X-15 rocket research aircraft program. Chapter 2 recalls key historic moments and missions across five decades of human spaceflight. Each decade has provided useful lessons for the next and a foundation for future achievement. The new mission entries are collected in the third section in chronological order. A review of the next steps in human spaceflight, including plans to occupy the International Space Station well into the 2020s and the growth of the Chinese manned space program including a large space station and planned base on the Moon, is discussed in Chapter 4. The tables provide a complete up-to-date overview of human spaceflight operations and experience from April 1961 to September 2012 and a selected chronology of important milestones from those years. Completing the book is a comprehensive bibliography that lists all the major Springer-Praxis human spaceflight titles and other important works that provide the reader with a resource to continuefurther research.
New foreword by Colonel Alfred M. Worden.- Reaching the Heavens in the Quest for Space.- In the Steps of Gagarin – Human Spaceflight Operations 1961-2012.- The New Mission Entries September 2006 through September 2012.- New Horizons to 2020 and Beyond.- Tables.- Manned Spaceflight Logbook 1961-2012.- Cumulative World Manned Spaceflight Experience 1961-2012.- World EVA Log 1965-2012.- Cumulative World EVA Log 1965-2012.- Future Flight Manifest Towards 2020 and Beyond.- Steps in History: A Selected Chronology of Manned Spaceflight History.
Most of Michael Shayler’s knowledge and experience connected with this proposed publication comes about through David Shayler’s work with Astro Info Service. Michael is a certified proof reader and editor, and he has been the initial proof reader and editor for David’s work for both Astro Info Service and commercial publishers since 1992, as well as working freelance for Springer-Praxis. This includes work on the title, “Women in Space” (2005), “Walking in Space” (2004), “NASA’s Scientst-Astronauts” (2007), and “Russia’s Cosmonauts” (2005). He has co-authored the Springer-Praxis book “Marswalk One” (2005). As a former member of the British Interplanetary Society, Michael was an editor and article writer for their quarterly junior publication, ‘Voyage,’ for its initialfive issues until it was taken in-house. He has conducted
Date de parution : 04-2013
Ouvrage de 392 p.
16.8x24 cm