Book Description
Describes the Gemini 4 mission in 1965 when astronauts Edward White and James McDivitt carried out the first extravehicular activity in the United States manned space program.
Author : Carl R. Green
Publisher : Enslow Publishing
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 32,70 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766051638
Describes the Gemini 4 mission in 1965 when astronauts Edward White and James McDivitt carried out the first extravehicular activity in the United States manned space program.
Author : Carl R. Green
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 22,72 MB
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1464609837
Gemini 4 pilot Ed White could see Hawaii, California, Texas, and Florida. Millions of Americans had seen these places before, but White had a unique view. He looked at them while walking in space. One hundred miles above Earth and moving freely outside the Gemini 4 spacecraft, White saw these states as tiny stepping stones. The first American spacewalk was a monumental achievement, and it helped push the space program toward its ultimate goal of landing men on the Moon. From the brave astronauts to the technology that made it possible, author Carl R. Green explores the astounding Gemini 4 mission.
Author : Steve Whitfield
Publisher : Apogee Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,69 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Nature
ISBN :
The highlight of Gemini 4 was America's first EVA or "space walk," performed by astronaut Ed White, which allowed the US to catch up with the Soviet Union, who had already performed the world's first space walk. White's EVA was so successful that he had to be ordered back into the Gemini capsule after its completion. --
Author : Helen Zelon
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,80 MB
Release : 2001-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780823957712
In this book, students will blast off with astronauts Edward White and James McDivitt as they make their way to space in 1965.
Author : David J. Shayler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 25,74 MB
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319766759
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 Mercury missions combined. This daring mission was the first to be directed from the new Mission Control at the Manned Spacecraft Center near Houston, Texas. It also revealed that: Working outside the spacecraft would require further study. Developing the techniques to rendezvous with another object in space would not be as straightforward as NASA had hoped. Living in a small spacecraft for several days was a challenging but necessary step in the quest for even longer flights. Despite the risks, the gamble that astronauts Jim McDivitt and Ed White undertook paid off. Gemini 4 gave NASA the confidence to attempt an even longer flight the next time. That next mission would simulate the planned eight-day duration of an Apollo lunar voyage. Its story is recounted in the next title in this series: Gemini 5: Eight Days in Space or Bust.
Author : David Michael Harland
Publisher : Collector's Guide Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 26,23 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN :
The social context in which NASA learned to fly in space, with an explicit mandate to reach the moon set against a tight deadline, is described in this historical analysis.
Author : Barton C. Hacker
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 48,58 MB
Release : 2013-10-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781492947554
A detailed, yet highly readable book, On the Shoulders of Titans should be the starting point for all who are interested in the basic history of the Gemini Program. NASA's second human spaceflight program, Gemini laid the groundwork for the more ambitious Apollo program which put astronauts on the Moon.
Author : Reginald M. Machell
Publisher :
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,38 MB
Release : 1967
Category :
ISBN :
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 13,2 MB
Release : 2011-11-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309218705
As the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) retires the Space Shuttle and shifts involvement in International Space Station (ISS) operations, changes in the role and requirements of NASA's Astronaut Corps will take place. At the request of NASA, the National Research Council (NRC) addressed three main questions about these changes: what should be the role and size of Johnson Space Center's (JSC) Flight Crew Operations Directorate (FCOD); what will be the requirements of astronaut training facilities; and is the Astronaut Corps' fleet of training aircraft a cost-effective means of preparing astronauts for NASA's spaceflight program? This report presents an assessment of several issues driven by these questions. This report does not address explicitly the future of human spaceflight.
Author : Robert D. Legler
Publisher : www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 26,77 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781782662235
Full color publication. This document has been produced and updated over a 21-year period. It is intended to be a handy reference document, basically one page per flight, and care has been exercised to make it as error-free as possible. This document is basically "as flown" data and has been compiled from many sources including flight logs, flight rules, flight anomaly logs, mod flight descent summary, post flight analysis of mps propellants, FDRD, FRD, SODB, and the MER shuttle flight data and inflight anomaly list. Orbit distance traveled is taken from the PAO mission statistics.