US spacesuits
"Successfully meeting the challenges to creating safe, reliable and comfortable spacesuits is an ongoing effort that has spanned over four decades. The book includes over 100 design models and 13 manufacturers that have thus far supported civilian and defense spacesuit programs." "Both authors have unparalleled experience in US spacesuit development, and this ensures a technically accurate and historically interesting text. The book is also illustrated by a unique collection that includes scores of never previously reproduced photographs. US Spacesuits is the most accurate and comprehensive text about the general topic of spacesuits, and US spacesuits in particular, that has ever been produced."--Jacket
eBook, English, ©2006
Springer ; In Association Praxis Pub., Berlin, New York, ©2006
History
1 online resource (xxx, 397 pages) : illustrations
9780387739793, 9786611066826, 0387739793, 6611066829
209911327
Reaching upward and outward
The basics of spacesuits
Crew escape, rescue and survival spacesuits
Gemini: The first approaches to exploring and working in space
Apollo: Mankind starts the exploration of the Moon
Advanced development for cancelled Apollo missions
US Air Force spacesuits
Skylab and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project suit systems (1969-75)
The Space Shuttle program: Orbital EVA comes of age
The next generation of spacesuits
Epilogue
English