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US Spacesuits
of: Kenneth S. Thomas, Harold J. McMann
Praxis, 2007
ISBN: 9780387739793 , 398 Pages
Format: PDF, Read online
Copy protection: DRM
Contents
5
Figures
8
Tables
14
List of contributors
15
Preface
17
Foreword
19
Acknowledgments
21
Editorial notes
23
Acronyms and abbreviations
25
Introduction
29
Reaching upward and outward
31
The basics of spacesuits
39
Crew escape, rescue and survival spacesuits
53
Gemini: The first approaches to exploring and working in space
79
Apollo: Mankind starts the exploration of the Moon
112
Advanced development for cancelled Apollo missions
176
US Air Force spacesuits
199
Skylab and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project suit systems (1969-75)
227
The Space Shuttle program: Orbital EVA comes of age
256
The next generation of spacesuits
320
Epilogue
369
Appendix 1
370
Appendix 2
401
Bibliography
408
Index
413
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