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NASA Gemini 1965-1966 (All Missions, All Models) : An Insight into NASA's Gemini Spacecraft, the Precursor to Apollo and the Key to the Moon by David Woods (2015, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherHaynes Publishing Group P.L.C.

ISBN-100857334212

ISBN-139780857334213

eBay Product ID (ePID)201645515

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Book TitleNASA Gemini 1965-1966 (All Missions, All Models) : An Insight into NASA's Gemini Spacecraft, the Precursor to Apollo and the Key to the Moon

Number of Pages176 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2015

TopicAviation / History, Space Science, Aeronautics & Astronautics

IllustratorYes

GenreTransportation, Technology & Engineering, Science

AuthorDavid Woods

Book SeriesOwners' Workshop Manual Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight27.3 Oz

Item Length10.9 in

Item Width8.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2014-945834

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal629.4540973

SynopsisThe Haynes Owners' Workshop Manual for the Gemini spacecraft, published on its 50th anniversary, celebrates this important machine with a thorough look into the technologies and techniques that were developed for the program during its heyday., NASAs Gemini space flight programme followed on from the pioneering Mercury missions which put the first US astronauts into space. The Gemini spacecraft was an agile flying machine for fighter pilots, which gave the US the tool it needed to fly into space, and in doing so prepared NASA to travel to the Moon. In a breathless series of 10 manned flights spread across only 20 months of 1965 and 1966, Gemini propelled NASA from being a tentative, inexperienced space agency to a tough, competent and confident organisation that could send astronauts to another world. This Manual celebrates this important spacecraft with a thorough look at the technologies and techniques that were developed for the programme during its heyday., The Gemini space flight program is all but forgotten, having been eclipsed by the spectacular drama and success of the Apollo flights to the Moon. Neither was it a pioneer, coming after the heroic and pathfinding Mercury project. But whereas Mercury was derided as 'spam-in-a-can' and Apollo was a truck towing a lunar lander, the Gemini spacecraft was an agile flying machine for fighter pilots. Initially called the Mercury Mark II, it gave the United States the tool it needed to learn how to fly in space, and in so doing it prepared the country's space agency, NASA, to set off for the Moon.

LC Classification NumberTL789.8.U6G4