Ebooks de Colin Burgess en PDF et EPUB

9 Livre(s)
Télécharger le livre : NASA's First Space Shuttle Astronaut Selection
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NASA's First Space Shuttle Astronaut Selection
Colin Burgess , David J. Shayler
Unofficially they called themselves the TFNG, or the Thirty-Five New Guys. Officially, they were NASA’s Group 8 astronauts, selected in January 1978 to train for orbital missions aboard the Space Shuttle. Prior to this time only pilots or scientists trained as pilots...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-07-10
Collection : Springer Praxis Books
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39,02 €
Télécharger le livre : The Last of NASA's Original Pilot Astronauts
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The Last of NASA's Original Pilot Astronauts
Colin Burgess , David J. Shayler
Resulting from the authors’ deep research into these two pre-Shuttle astronaut groups, many intriguing and untold stories behind the selection process are revealed in the book. The often extraordinary backgrounds and personal ambitions of these skilled pilots, chosen to...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-06-19
Collection : Springer Praxis Books
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52,74 €
Télécharger le livre : Sigma 7
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Sigma 7
Colin Burgess
Colin Burgess offers a comprehensive yet personal look at the 1962 orbital mission of Wally Schirra aboard the spacecraft Sigma 7, the first book about this popular pioneering astronaut which explores his entire life and accomplishments. This continues the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-05-28
Collection : Springer Praxis Books
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42,19 €
Télécharger le livre : Interkosmos
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Interkosmos
Colin Burgess , Bert Vis
This book focuses on the Interkosmos program, which was formed in 1967, marking a fundamentally new era of cooperation by socialist countries, led by the Soviet Union, in the study and exploration of space. The chapters shed light on the space program that was at that...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-11-19
Collection : Springer Praxis Books
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47,46 €
Télécharger le livre : Aurora 7
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Aurora 7
Colin Burgess
TO A NATION enthralled by the heroic exploits of the Mercury astronauts, the launch of Lt. Cmdr. Scott Carpenter on NASA’s second orbital space flight was a renewed cause for pride, jubilation and celebration. Within hours, that excitement had given way to stunned...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-08-28
Collection : Springer Praxis Books
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40,08 €
Télécharger le livre : Friendship 7
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Friendship 7
Colin Burgess
In this spellbinding account of an historic but troubled orbital mission, noted space historian Colin Burgess takes us back to an electrifying time in American history, when intrepid pioneers were launched atop notoriously unreliable rockets at the very dawn of human...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-04-07
Collection : Springer Praxis Books
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40,08 €
Télécharger le livre : Liberty Bell 7
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Liberty Bell 7
Colin Burgess
NASA’s Mercury astronauts were seven highly skilled professional test pilots. Each of them seemed to possess the strength of character and commitment necessary to overcome apparently insurmountable obstacles as the United States entered into a Cold War space race with...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-03-19
Collection : Springer Praxis Books
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47,46 €
Télécharger le livre : Freedom 7
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Freedom 7
Colin Burgess
Inevitably, there are times in a nation’s history when its hopes, fears and con?dence in its own destiny appear to hinge on the fate of a single person. One of these pivotal moments occurred on the early morning of May 5, 1961, when a 37-year-old test pilot squeezed...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-09-27
Collection : Springer Praxis Books
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47,46 €
Télécharger le livre : Animals in Space
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Animals in Space
Colin Burgess , Chris Dubbs
Many readers will doubtless be astonished to learn that animals were being fired aloft in U.S. and Soviet research rockets in the late 1940s. In fact most people not only believe that the Russian space dog Laika was the first canine to be launched into space, but also...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2007-07-05
Collection : Springer Praxis Books
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58,01 €