In the words of those who trod the void and others based at mission control, here are more than fifty of the greatest true stories of suborbital, orbital, and deep space exploration. From Apollo 8's first view of a tortured landscape of craters on the "dark side" of the Moon to a series of cliff-hanger crises aboard space station Mir, The Mammoth Book of Space Exploration and Disasters offers moments of extraordinary heroic achievement as well as episodes of terrible human cost. High points include the classic, nail-biting account of abandoning Apollo 13 on the way to the Moon and Jerry Linenger's panic attack during a space walk where he was "just out there dangling."
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The first successful powered flight took place in the United States. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pitch horizon scanner, research airplane program, landing bag switch, lower equipment bay, reentry attitude, aft field joint, lunar orbit rendezvous, base block, command module pilot, manual fuel, descent stage, hard dock, two cosmonauts, escape tower, docking system, servicing mission, flight director, service module, orbit insertion, flight rate, descent engine, lunar dust, third orbit, solar arrays, hand controller Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Mars Express, Cape Canaveral, Deke Slayton, Chris Kraft, Indian Ocean, Heinlein Prize, Mercury Control, Soviet Union, Dave Scott, Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Duke, Friendship Seven, Gene Kranz, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, European Space Agency, Neil Armstrong, Vladimir Solovyov, World War, Frank Borman, Kennedy Space Center, President Eisenhower, Project Gemini, Rusty Schweickart New!
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The first successful powered flight took place in the United States. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pitch horizon scanner, research airplane program, landing bag switch, lower equipment bay, reentry attitude, aft field joint, lunar orbit rendezvous, base block, command module pilot, manual fuel, descent stage, hard dock, two cosmonauts, escape tower, docking system, servicing mission, flight director, service module, orbit insertion, flight rate, descent engine, lunar dust, third orbit, solar arrays, hand controller Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Mars Express, Cape Canaveral, Deke Slayton, Chris Kraft, Indian Ocean, Heinlein Prize, Mercury Control, Soviet Union, Dave Scott, Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Duke, Friendship Seven, Gene Kranz, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, European Space Agency, Neil Armstrong, Vladimir Solovyov, World War, Frank Borman, Kennedy Space Center, President Eisenhower, Project Gemini, Rusty Schweickart New!
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- From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe on page 120, and Back Matter
- Dragonfly: An Epic Adventure of Survival in Outer Space by Bryan Burrough in Back Matter
- Across the Space: 2 by O. P. Ryan in Back Matter
- Space Odyssey: an Anthology of Great Science Fiction Stories by Robert Silverberg in Back Matter
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