In Gemini - Steps to the Moon, David Shayler, the author, tells the story of the origin and development of the programme and the spacecraft from the perspective of the engineers, flight controllers and astronauts involved. It includes chapters on flight tests, Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA), rendezvous and docking, as well as information from NASA archives and personal interviews.
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This view shows the foundations for the outer wall extension being laid. (Credit: NASA KSC). At four minutes and 30 seconds (T+270 seconds) into the mission, Public Affairs Officer (PAO) Paul P. Haney ...
Magical History Tour #10, First Steps on the Moon
But what does it take to prepare for and conduct a period of activity outside the spacecraft? In Walking in Space David Shayler explores the development of space walking techniques and support hardware.
... Fire , Michael Collins . Farrar , Straus and Giroux , New York . 1974 , pp . 267-269 . 6 Apollo by the Numbers , a statistical reference , Richard Orloff , NASA SP - 2000^1029 , October 2000 . 7 Apollo Program Summary Report ...
The Mir Space Station , David M. Harland , ( Wiley - Praxis ) . Dragonfly , Bryan Burrough , ( Harper Collins ) . Waystation to the Stars , Colin Foale , ( Headline ) . Who's Who In Space : the ISS Edition , Michael Cassutt ...
Ann Beardsley, C. Tony Garcia, Joseph Sweeney. 44 • BOLDEN JR., MAJ. GEN. CHARLES F. (AUGUST 19, 1946–) BOLDEN JR., MAJ. GEN. CHARLES F. (August 19, 1946–). Nominated by President Barack Obama, Bolden is the 12th and current ...
Quoted in Jay Barbree, Live from Cape Canaveral (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2008), 124–25. 111. Barbree, Live from Cape Canaveral, 124‒25. 112. Jerry L. Ross, Spacewalker: My Journey in Space and Faith as NASA's Record-Setting ...
... Quinlan Press, Boston, MA, 1988 Shayler, David J., Gemini: Steps to the Moon, Praxis Publishing Ltd., Chichester, UK, 2001 Shepard, Alan and Deke Slayton, Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon, Turner Publishing, ...
An American Spacewalk 1. Peter Bond , Heroes in Space : From Gagarin to Challenger ( New York : Basil Blackwell , Inc. , 1987 ) , p . 90 . 2. Ibid . 3. Anthony J. Cipriano , America's Journeys Into Space : The Astronauts of the United ...