Gemini 4 America's First Spacewalk
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
14.08.2026
Verlag
Independently PublishedSeitenzahl
124
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/0,7 cm
Gewicht
178 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798192627778
Some missions become famous for a single photograph. The most rewarding histories reveal everything behind it: the engineering, preparation, decisions, limitations, personalities, and lessons that made the moment possible.
Gemini 4: America's First Spacewalk takes you inside one of the decisive missions that transformed American human spaceflight. In June 1965, James McDivitt and Edward White spent four demanding days in orbit while NASA tested capabilities that would soon become essential to reaching the Moon. White's historic EVA became the mission's defining image, but Gemini 4 accomplished something broader: it helped NASA learn how astronauts, spacecraft, engineers, and Mission Control could operate together during increasingly complex missions.
Written by aerospace engineer Bob Martin, this carefully researched account combines mission history, engineering, firsthand recollections, and operational detail in the accessible, authoritative style of the Aerospace Missions series.
Inside, you will discover:
How Gemini 4 actually worked - from the Titan II launch vehicle and Gemini spacecraft systems to guidance, maneuvering, environmental control, EVA equipment, and reentry.
The complete story behind America's first spacewalk - including preparation, the G4C suit, hand-held maneuvering unit, umbilical system, hatch operations, and the lessons Edward White's EVA revealed.
The rendezvous attempt that taught NASA a crucial orbital lesson - and why chasing another spacecraft in orbit could produce results that seemed counterintuitive even to experienced test pilots.
The lesser-known mission behind the famous photographs - four-day endurance, crew workload, experiments, Houston's new Mission Control Center, system problems, recovery, and the operational knowledge carried forward into later Gemini and Apollo flights.
Drawing on NASA mission documentation, technical records, transcripts, oral histories, and archival sources, the book goes beyond the familiar milestones to explain why Gemini 4 mattered and what NASA actually learned from flying it.
For readers fascinated by spacecraft, engineering, astronauts, the Space Race, and the path to Apollo, GEMINI 4: America's First Spacewalk offers a detailed journey into the mission that helped turn orbital flight from a demonstration of survival into the disciplined practice of working in space.
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