The Mammoth Book of Space Exploration and Disasters: Over 50 True Accounts of Triumph and Tragedy in Space, Taking You Right Inside the Capsule Cockpit and Beyond
by Richard Russell Lawrence
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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 8's first view of a fractured, tortured landscape of craters on the 'dark side' 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, show more 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 13's 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 hair's breadth ? Jerry Linenger's panic attack during a space walk, 'just out there dangling'. show lessTags
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The excerpts in this book are mostly from the autobiographies and biographies of the people who made history working at NASA. everything from Mercury to Mir is mentioned in this book, and mostly in first-person voice from the people who lived through it all. Thankfully, there weren't as many disasters in the book as successes.The bad thing is that the book has a lot of spelling errors in it. sloppy editing I presume. It really throws the breaks on my imagining of the situations in the book when I see a misspelled word.
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Richard Russell Lawrence read history and art history at university and has worked in art and design for over 20 years
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Mammoth Books (Mammoth Books 358)
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- 363.12 — Social sciences Social problems and social services Other social problems and services Public safety programs Transportation
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- TL867 .M335 — Technology Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics Astronautics. Space travel
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