From the popular Haynes Owners' Workshop Manual space series, which includes NASA Apollo 11 Manual and NASA Space Shuttle Manual, this unique book provides an insight into the only car ever built to be driven on the surface of another world. With a…
In planning this photo history we set out to record the story of Apollo before the colors fade and memories blur. At first we aimed to restrict ourselves to the actual expeditions to the Moon. But it soon became clear that this approach could not…
Is uitgegeven naar aanleiding van de 50ste verjaardag van de eerste maanlanding. Een eerbetoon aan allen -zowel Russen als Amerikanen - die hun leven riskeerden en soms lieten in de wedstrijd om toch maar de eerste op de maan te zijn. Het verhaal van…
Space exploration has developed from early, unmanned space probes through the pioneering years of the ‘Manned’ Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions, to missions that now include women in the crew as a matter of course. Dave Shayler tells the story…
In spite of the Challenger and Columbia disasters, the US Space Shuttle, which entered service in 1981, remains the most successful spacecraft ever developed. Conceived and designed as a reusable spacecraft to provide cheap access to low Earth…
In the 1960s and 1970s deep space missions were dispatched in pairs in case one was lost in launch or failed during its journey. Following the triumphs of the Viking landings on Mars in 1976 and both Voyagers spacecraft successfully surveying the…
In dit boek vertelt elk van de zeven (mannelijk*) astronauten van het Mercury project zijn persoonlijk verhaal omtrent de selectie, de training en uiteindelijke vluchtervaring. In een laatste hoofdstuk vertelt Mevr. Shepard haar ervaring en emoties…
illustré De l'aventure à l'évolution ; Les routes de Keplen et Newton ; L'astronautique adulte ; Les trois âges ; La course autour de la Lune ; Le chef-d'oeuvre industriel ; L'Amérique après la victoire ; Les Russes avant la victoire ; L'heure de…