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Touching Space

- The Story of Project Manhigh
Af: Gregory P. Kennedy Engelsk Paperback

Touching Space

- The Story of Project Manhigh
Af: Gregory P. Kennedy Engelsk Paperback
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Project Manhigh took humans to the threshold of space using balloons. In the 1950s, a small band of Air Force doctors were on the cutting edge of the United States'' space research programs. Working at the Aeromedical Field Laboratory at Holloman Air Force Base in southern New Mexico, they used balloons to carry laboratory animals followed by human pilots above 99% of the atmosphere. Drawing upon flight reports and technical data, this book documents Project Manhigh and the high altitude flights that preceded it. The Manhigh flights were, in many ways, prototypes for future space missions. On each of the three flights, the Air Force placed a lone pilot in a sealed capsule nineteen miles above the ground. At such extreme altitudes, the pilots were well within the functional equivalent of outer space and needed the sealed capsule to survive. Manhigh existed prior to the creation of NASA and helped pave the way for human space exploration.
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Project Manhigh took humans to the threshold of space using balloons. In the 1950s, a small band of Air Force doctors were on the cutting edge of the United States'' space research programs. Working at the Aeromedical Field Laboratory at Holloman Air Force Base in southern New Mexico, they used balloons to carry laboratory animals followed by human pilots above 99% of the atmosphere. Drawing upon flight reports and technical data, this book documents Project Manhigh and the high altitude flights that preceded it. The Manhigh flights were, in many ways, prototypes for future space missions. On each of the three flights, the Air Force placed a lone pilot in a sealed capsule nineteen miles above the ground. At such extreme altitudes, the pilots were well within the functional equivalent of outer space and needed the sealed capsule to survive. Manhigh existed prior to the creation of NASA and helped pave the way for human space exploration.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 128
ISBN-13: 9780764327889
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0764327887
Udg. Dato: 27 jul 2007
Længde: 12mm
Bredde: 217mm
Højde: 278mm
Forlag: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Oplagsdato: 27 jul 2007
Forfatter(e): Gregory P. Kennedy
Forfatter(e) Gregory P. Kennedy


Kategori Ingeniørvidenskabens og teknologiens historie


ISBN-13 9780764327889


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 128


Udgave


Længde 12mm


Bredde 217mm


Højde 278mm


Udg. Dato 27 jul 2007


Oplagsdato 27 jul 2007


Forlag Schiffer Publishing Ltd