Into the wide blue yonder -- A seagull in orbit -- The Right Stuff, the wrong sex -- The rocket-plane and the Space Shuttle -- Shuttlenauts -- Sally and Svetlana -- Shuttle specialists and passengers -- Stations in space -- Earth orbit and beyond -- Conclusion.Space exploration has developed from early, unmanned space probes through the pioneering years of the ‘Manned’ Mercury, Gemini, and …
The Cosmonaut Training Centre: birth and growth -- Simulators -- Other national and international facilities -- Survival training -- The Cosmonaut Group of the RGNII TsPK -- The Cosmonaut group of RKK Energiya -- Other Soviet and Russian cosmonaut selections -- Cosmonauts selected to fly the Buran Shuttle -- International training -- Joint programmes -- Zvyozdnyy Gorodok — the town.With the a…
Destination Mars -- History of Mars exploration -- Voyage to Mars -- Evolution of a Marswalk -- Wardrobe for Mars -- Surface exploration -- Science on the surface -- Living the dream -- The return.MARSWALK ONE: First Steps on a New Planet addresses the question of why we should embark on a journey to Mars, documenting what the first human crew will do when they place their feet in the red dust …