
Manned Spaceflight
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- BOOK COVER
- TITLE
- COPYRIGHT
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1 PRECURSORS IN FICTION AND FACT
- PIONEERS
- EARLY ROCKET DEVELOPMENT
- GERMANY
- UNITED STATES
- SOVIET UNION
- PREPARING FOR SPACEFLIGHT
- CHAPTER 2 SPACEFLIGHT BEGINS
- NASA AND U.S. MILITARY SPACE AGENCIES
- THE SPACE RACE BEGINS
- VOSTOK
- MERCURY
- GEMINI AND VOSKHOD
- SOYUZ
- CHAPTER 3 THE RACE TO THE MOON
- THE SOVIET RESPONSE
- INTERIM DEVELOPMENTS
- THE APOLLO LUNAR LANDINGS AND APOLLO-SOYUZ
- SCIENTIFIC RESULTS FROM APOLLO
- CHAPTER 4 THE SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM
- THE CHALLENGER DISASTER
- DETERMINING A CAUSE
- AFTER CHALLENGER
- THE COLUMBIA DISASTER AND AFTER
- CHAPTER 5 SPACE STATIONS
- SALYUT
- STRETCHING THE LIMITS OF ENDURANCE
- SKYLAB
- MIR
- THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
- CHAPTER 6 FUTURE DIRECTIONS
- CONSTELLATION PROGRAM
- EMERGING SPACE PROGRAMS
- SPACE TOURISM
- SPACESHIPONE
- REGULATING SPACE TOURISM
- CHAPTER 7 HUMANS IN SPACE
- BIOMEDICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECTS
- SELECTING PEOPLE FOR SPACEFLIGHT
- U.S. ASTRONAUT TRAINING
- COSMONAUT AND INTERNATIONAL ASTRONAUT TRAINING
- CHAPTER 8 AMERICAN ASTRONAUTS
- EDWIN "BUZZ" ALDRIN
- WILLIAM ANDERS
- MICHAEL ANDERSON
- NEIL ARMSTRONG
- ALAN BEAN
- GUION BLUFORD
- FRANK BORMAN
- VANCE BRAND
- DAVID BROWN
- SCOTT CARPENTER
- GERALD CARR
- EUGENE CERNAN
- ROGER CHAFFEE
- FRANKLIN CHANG-DÍAZ
- KALPANA CHAWLA
- LAUREL CLARK
- EILEEN COLLINS
- MICHAEL COLLINS
- CHARLES CONRAD
- GORDON COOPER
- ROBERT CRIPPEN
- WALTER CUNNINGHAM
- DONN EISELE
- OWEN GARRIOTT
- EDWARD GIBSON
- JOHN GLENN
- RICHARD GORDON
- VIRGIL GRISSOM
- FRED HAISE
- RICK HUSBAND
- JAMES IRWIN
- MAE JEMISON
- JOSEPH KERWIN
- JAMES LOVELL
- SHANNON LUCID
- CHRISTA MCAULIFFE
- BRUCE MCCANDLESS
- WILLIAM MCCOOL
- JAMES MCDIVITT
- MICHAEL MELVILL
- EDGAR MITCHELL
- BARBARA MORGAN
- STORY MUSGRAVE
- BILL NELSON
- ELLEN OCHOA
- SALLY RIDE
- STUART ROOSA
- JERRY ROSS
- WALTER SCHIRRA
- HARRISON SCHMITT
- DAVID SCOTT
- ALAN SHEPARD
- DONALD SLAYTON
- THOMAS STAFFORD
- JACK SWIGERT
- DAVID WALKER
- EDWARD WHITE
- PEGGY WHITSON
- SUNITA WILLIAMS
- ALFRED WORDEN
- JOHN YOUNG
- CHAPTER 9 SOVIET AND RUSSIAN COSMONAUTS
- PAVEL BELYAYEV
- VALERY BYKOVSKY
- GEORGY DOBROVOLSKY
- KONSTANTIN FEOKTISTOV
- YURY GAGARIN
- PYOTR KLIMUK
- VLADIMIR KOMAROV
- SERGEY KRIKALYOV
- VALERY KUBASOV
- ALEKSEY LEONOV
- ANDRIYAN NIKOLAYEV
- VIKTOR PATSAYEV
- VALERY POLYAKOV
- PAVEL POPOVICH
- SVETLANA SAVITSKAYA
- ANATOLY SOLOVYOV
- GENNADY STREKALOV
- VALENTINA TERESHKOVA
- GHERMAN TITOV
- ALEKSANDR VOLKOV
- SERGEY VOLKOV
- VLADISLAV VOLKOV
- BORIS YEGOROV
- CHAPTER 10 INTERNATIONAL ASTRONAUTS AND SPACEFLIGHT PARTICIPANTS
- AKIYAMA TOYOHIRO
- IVAN BELLA
- ROBERTA BONDAR
- JEAN-LOUP CHRÉTIEN
- PEDRO DUQUE
- MUHAMMED FARIS
- FARKAS BERTALAN
- DIRK FRIMOUT
- CHRISTER FUGLESANG
- MARC GARNEAU
- JUGDERDEMIDIIN GURRAGCHA
- CLAUDIE HAIGNERÉ
- MIROSLAW HERMASZEWSKI
- GEORGY IVANOV
- SIGMUND JÄHN
- LEONID KADENYUK
- FRANCO MALERBA
- ARNALDO TAMAYO MÉNDEZ
- ULF MERBOLD
- ABDUL AHAD MOHMAND
- MOHRI MAMORU
- MUKAI CHIAKI
- RODOLFO NERI VELA
- CLAUDE NICOLLIER
- WUBBO OCKELS
- MARCOS PONTES
- DUMITRU PRUNARIU
- ILAN RAMON
- VLADIMÍR REMEK
- SALMAN AL SA'UD
- RAKESH SHARMA
- HELEN SHARMAN
- SHEIKH MUSZAPHAR SHUKOR
- MARK SHUTTLEWORTH
- PHAM TUAN
- FRANZ VIEHBOCK
- YANG LIWEI
- YI SOYEON
- ZHAI ZHIGANG
- APPENDIX: ACHIEVEMENTS IN SPACE
- GLOSSARY
- FOR FURTHER READING
- INDEX
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