The Mammoth Book of Space Exploration and Disasters
✍ Scribed by Lawrence, Richard Russell (ed)
- Book ID
- 107104690
- Publisher
- Robinson
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 415 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 184119963X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
In the words of those who trod the void and those at mission
control, here are over 50 of the greatest true stories of suborbital,
orbital and deep-space exploration. From Apollo 8â€TMs
first view of a fractured, tortured landscape of craters on the
â€ РњС“dark sideâ€TM of the Moon to the series of cliff-hanger crises
aboard space station Mir, they include moments of
extraordinary heroic achievement as well as episodes of terrible
human cost. Among the astronauts and cosmonauts featured are
John Glenn, Pavel Beyayev, Jim Lovell, Neil Armstrong, Buzz
Aldrin, Valery Korzun, Vasily Tsibliyev and Michael Foale.
Includes • First walk in space by Sergei Leonov and his
traumatic return to Earth • Apollo 13â€TMs problem – the classic,
nail-biting account of abandoning ship on the way to the
Moon • Docking with the frozen, empty Salyut 7 space station
that had drifted without power for eight months • Progress
crashes into Mir – the astronauts survive death by a hairâ€TMs
breadth • Jerry Linengerâ€TMs panic attack during a space walk,
â€ РњС“just out there danglingâ€TM.
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