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Project Mercury - NASA's First Manned Space Programme (Hardcover, 2001 ed.) Loot Price: R1,781
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Project Mercury - NASA's First Manned Space Programme (Hardcover, 2001 ed.): John Catchpole

Project Mercury - NASA's First Manned Space Programme (Hardcover, 2001 ed.)

John Catchpole

Series: Space Exploration

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List price R2,138 Loot Price R1,781 Discovery Miles 17 810 | Repayment Terms: R167 pm x 12* You Save R357 (17%)

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Project Mercury will offer a developmental resume of the first American manned spaceflight programme and its associated infrastructure, including accounts of space launch vehicles. The book highlights the differences in Redstone/Atlas technology, drawing similar comparisons between ballistic capsules and alternative types of spacecraft. The book also covers astronaut selection and training, as well as tracking systems, flight control, basic principles of spaceflight and detailed accounts of individual flights.

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Imprint: Springer London
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Space Exploration
Release date: July 2001
First published: 2001
Authors: John Catchpole
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 43mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 486
Edition: 2001 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-1-85233-406-2
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Popular astronomy
Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Space travel & exploration
Books > Professional & Technical > Other technologies > Space science > Astronautics
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LSN: 1-85233-406-1
Barcode: 9781852334062

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