University of New Mexico Press, 2015. — 225 p. This is the story of the people and events of Projects Mercury and Gemini, told through hundreds of unpublished and rare color and black-and-white photographs. Unlike other publications, which have illustrated the Space Race with well-known and easily accessible images, this history draws from the authors' private library of more...
University of New Mexico Press, 2015. — 225 p. This is the story of the people and events of Projects Mercury and Gemini, told through hundreds of unpublished and rare color and black-and-white photographs. Unlike other publications, which have illustrated the Space Race with well-known and easily accessible images, this history draws from the authors' private library of more...
Springer, 2016. — 239 p. 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 disbelief and anxiety as shaken broadcasters began preparing the American public for the...
Springer, 2016. - 291 pp. This book celebrates the final spaceflight in the Mercury series, flown by NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper, who led an adventurous life in the cockpit of airplanes and spacecraft alike, and on his Mercury mission he became the last American ever to rocket into space alone. He flew in the Mercury and Gemini programs and served as head of flight crew...
Springer, 2014. 266 p. Inevitably, there are times in a nation’s history when its hopes, fears and confidence 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 himself into the confines of the tiny Mercury spacecraft that he had named Freedom 7 . On...
Cham; Heidelberg; New York; Dordrecht; London: Springer, 2015. — XI, 275 p. — (Springer Praxis Books) — ISBN: 978-3-319-15653-8; ISBN: 978-3-319-15654-5 (eBook). 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...
NASA, 1960. — 64 p. By the middle of 1958 the Aeromedical Field Laboratory of the Air Force Missile Development Center, at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, had won wide public and scientific attention with its research programs in biodynamics and space biology. Such achievements as the rocket-sled experiments of Col. (Dr.) John Paul Stapp, the series of animal and human...
Washington: NASA, 1963. — 238 p.; ill. A decision by National Aeronautics and Space Administration Headquarters in October 1961 extended the Mercury program by adding I-day missions after three- and- six orbit flights. Also, during the same year, follow-on manned space programs, later known as Projects Gemini and Apollo, began to take form. These events were rather unusual, for...
New York: Random House, 1962. — 190 p. — OCLC 178355. An account of the Project Mercury program, including the designing, construction and testing of the space capsule, the control center and tracking stations, the training of the seven astronauts and the first flights. Project Mercury Sends a Man Into Space. Why Do We Explore Space? Space Exploration Begins. Project Mercury....
NASA, 1977. — 646 p. Gemini was the intermediate manned space flight program between America's first steps into space with Mercury and the manned lunar expeditions of Apollo. Because of its position between these two other efforts, Gemini is probably less remembered. Still, it more than had its place in man's progress into this new frontier. Gemini accomplishments were...
Hantsvill: NASA, 1963. — 1154 p. These areas encompass most of the material in the field of earth orbital mechanics. The intent in all of these discussions is to provide analytic relationships which define the problem, and to augment these discussions with an error analysis and graphical or tabular data. In some of the material, however, the number of variables is so large that...
Warszawa: 2009. — 59 s. A wiat wkroczył w epokę kosmiczną, gdy 4 października 1957 Droku w niebo nad stepami Kazachstanu, będącego wówczas republiką radziecką, wzbiła się rakieta balistyczna R - 7, wynosząc w Kosmos metalową kulę o średnicy 58 cm, wyposażoną w cztery anteny nadawczo odbiorcze. Sputnik 1, jak nazwano ten obiekt, krążył wokół Ziemi przez 92 dni i spłonął w...
McDonnell Aircraft Company, 1966. — 410 p. Initiated by the NASA and implemented by McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, Project Gemini is the second major step in the field of manned space exploration. Closely allied to Project Mercury in concept and utilizing the knowledge gained from the Mercury flights, Project Gemini utilizes a two man spacecraft considerably more sophisticated...
Washington: NASA, 1959. — 252 p. Report of the Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences United States Senate. The purpose of this staff study, made at the request of the chairman, is to serve members of the Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences as a source of basic information on Project Mercury, the man-in-space program of the National Aeronautics and Space...
Springer, 2019. — xxv + 378 p. — (Springer Praxis Books). — ISBN: 978-3-319-76675-1. The flight of Gemini 4 in June 1965 was conducted barely four years after the first Americans flew in space. It was a bold step by NASA to accomplish the first American spacewalk and to extend the U.S. flight duration record to four days. This would be double the experience gained from the six...
Springer, 2019. — xxv + 378 p. — (Springer Praxis Books). — ISBN: 978-3-319-76675-1. The flight of Gemini 4 in June 1965 was conducted barely four years after the first Americans flew in space. It was a bold step by NASA to accomplish the first American spacewalk and to extend the U.S. flight duration record to four days. This would be double the experience gained from the six...
Springer, 2018. — 333 p. In May 1961, President John F. Kennedy committed the United States to landing a man on the moon before the end of the decade. With just a handful of years to pull it off, NASA authorized the Project Gemini space program, which gathered vital knowledge needed to achieve the nation’s goal. This book introduces the crucial three-step test program employed by...
Washington: NASA, 1965. — 198 p. Medical aspects of Project Mercury including astronaut selection and training, results of laboratory tests and physiological data, and biomedical planning for space flights.
NASA, 1958. — 133 p. This investigation was directed by Brig. Gen. Don Flickinger, USAF, MC, Command Surgeon, Air Research and Development Command. The testing, begun on 16 February 1959 and completed on 27 March 1959, was performed under Project No. 7164, "Physiology of Flight," Task No. 71832, "Physiological Criteria for Extended Environments." Col. J. P. Stapp, USAF, MC,...
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