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Manned space flight. --- Astronauts --- Manned space flight --- Space flight --- Cosmonauts --- Space ships --- Air pilots --- Space travelers --- Pilots --- Astronautics personnel --- Astronauts - Europe.
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On February 1st 2003, one of the worst and most public disasters ever witnessed in the human space programme unfolded with horrifying suddenness in the skies above north central Texas. The Space Shuttle Columbia – the world’s first truly reusable manned spacecraft – was lost during her return to Earth, along with a crew of seven. It was an event that, after the loss of Space Shuttle Challenger during a launch 17 years before, the world had hoped it would never see again. This book details each of Columbia’s 28 missions in turn, as told by scientists and researchers who developed and supported her many payloads, by the engineers who worked on her and by the astronauts who flew her. In doing so, it is intended to provide a fitting tribute to this most remarkable flying machine and those who perished on her last mission.
Space shuttles --- Astronauts. --- Cosmonauts --- Space ships --- Air pilots --- Space travelers --- Manned space flight --- Shuttles, Space --- Reusable space vehicles --- Pilots --- Astronomy. --- Engineering. --- Popular Science in Astronomy. --- Astronomy, Observations and Techniques. --- Automotive Engineering. --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Observations, Astronomical. --- Astronomy—Observations. --- Automotive engineering. --- Astronomical observations --- Observations, Astronomical --- Columbia (Spacecraft) --- U.S.S. Columbia (Spacecraft) --- USS Columbia (Spacecraft)
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With the aid of unique photographs, first-hand interviews and historical resources, Rex Hall, Dave Shayler and Bert Vis explain, for the very first time, how Russian citizens have been selected and trained to fly in space, and how these procedures have changed during the past 40 years. The authors also describe the evolution of the often overlooked ground support infrastructure and how the role of cosmonauts has changed from the very earliest days of the Gagarin era, through the demise of the Soviet Union, to the era of international co-operation and collaboration on programmes such as the International Space Station. The book will provide much important background information and insight to the operational Soviet/Russian manned space programme, already covered in other Springer-Praxis titles, but revealing information and facts not covered elsewhere, and providing a unique reference source for all those who wish to understand the changing role of Russian cosmonauts in today’s global space programme.
Astronautics --- Astronauts --- Cosmonauts --- Space ships --- Air pilots --- Space travelers --- Manned space flight --- Space sciences --- Aeronautics --- Astrodynamics --- Space flight --- Space vehicles --- Pilots --- Science (General). --- Astronomy. --- Astronomy, Observations and Techniques. --- Popular Science, general. --- Popular Science in Astronomy. --- Observations, Astronomical. --- Astronomy—Observations. --- Popular works. --- Astronomical observations --- Observations, Astronomical
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