HAYNES ASTRONAUT 1961 ONWARDS (All Roles and Nationalities)

Book number: 94067 Product format: Hardback Author: DR KEN MACTAGGART

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In the super Haynes Owners' Workshop Manual series, the special treatment is given to the space voyagers and astronauts in fiction and movies and real life. It covers missions and destinations, Earth orbital flights, Lagrange points, the Moon, asteroids and Mars and other planets. Plus recruitment and selection, training and improvisation, spacecraft like the SSTO, current and imminent spacecraft, capsules and spaceplanes. We take a look at preparing for Soyuz launch and launch day and lift off or... Pusk! Then the delights of weightlessness and life in orbit, food and drink, medical effects and cosmic vision. Space suits, Abort suits, EVA suits, American EMU, and back to earth with losing speed and gaining heat, undocking, de-orbit engine firing, spacecraft disassembly, re-entry, parachutes and landing. And life after space, coping with fame and celebrity and a changed perspective. The role of the astronaut as a professional career exists for more than 500 men and women since Yuri Gagarin became the first human to enter space in 1961. And we look to the future with Earth orbital flight, Moon landings and expeditions to Mars, asteroids and deep space and spacecraft under development including American, Russian, Chinese and commercial vehicles. Lavishly illustrated with colour photos and unique explanatory graphics of the tools, backpacks, zero gravity toilets and so much more and written in a style accessible to the layperson. 176pp, 22 x 28cm.

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ISBN 9781785210617

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