Il y a 50 ans, dans la nuit du 20 juillet 1969, l’astronaute américain Neil Armstrong est le premier homme à poser le pied sur la Lune. "Un petit pas pour l’Homme ; un bond de géant pour l’humanité" : la première phrase prononcée par Armstrong sur la…
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…
"THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND' Met deze woorden markeert Neil Armstrong het hoogtepunt van een van de meest gedurfde expedities die de mens ooit ondernomen heeft en het begin van een nieuw tijdperk.
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Op 27 mei 2009 wordt Frank De Winne, samen met de Rus Roman Romanenko en de Canadees Bob Thirsk gelanceerd naar het International Space Station (ISS) waar hij zes maanden lang zal leven en werken. Een bijzondere ervaring, niet alleen voor de…
We have all seen NASA’s mission control centers at moments of both triumph and tragedy. Johnson makes a significant contribution to spaceflight history by analyzing their pivotal role.”—Roger Launius, associate director for collections and curatorial…
Full of personal insights and accounts of the long journey to getting a man on the moon, Missions to the Moon is the perfect companion for anyone with a love of space travel, the moon landings, or NASA, CNSA, RFSA, and the rest of the world's space…
September 2015 Space is an incredibly hard environment to work in: weightless, airless and with daunting temperature extremes. Systems must operate reliably for years on end, with no chance of repair.
Under ESA leadership, European space industry…
Praxis Log of Manned Spaceflight 1961-2006 will open with a section entitled: Quest for Space, which will provide an explanation of the methods employed to get in and out of orbit and brief overviews of the different international space programmes.…
In 1957, a small group of scientists, supported by the U.S. government, launched an attempt to build a four-thousand-ton spaceship propelled by nuclear bombs. The initial plan called for missions to Mars by 1965 and Saturn by 1970. After seven years…