How NASA Learned to Fly in Space: An Exciting Account of the Gemini Missions

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Apogee Books, 2004 - Nature - 288 pages
NASA learned to fly in space in a time when the agency was young and lean, and had an explicit mandate of staggering audacity set against a tight deadline; in a time when the agency readily accepted risk, and made momentous decisions 'on the run'; in a time when a rendezvous was a major objective of a mission, in a time when opening the hatch and ......

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Authors preface
7
Shakedown Flight
33
Stepping
49
Copyright

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David M. Harland is a space historian and the author ofExploring The Moon: The Apollo Expeditions,The Story of the Space Shuttle, andThe Story of the Space Station Mir.

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