Voskhod 2: The First Spacewalk Aerospace Missions, #7
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ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
09.10.2026
Verlag
Oscar PublishingSeitenzahl
(Printausgabe)
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2238 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798235079557
On March 18, 1965, a human being stepped beyond the safety of a spacecraft for the first time. Behind those historic minutes lay an extraordinary story of engineering ingenuity, Cold War ambition, human endurance, and decisions that would shape the future of space exploration.
Voskhod 2: The First Spacewalk takes readers inside one of the most remarkable missions of the Space Age. Aerospace engineer and historian Bob Martin reconstructs the journey of Alexei Leonov and Pavel Belyayev, revealing the technical challenges, unexpected dangers, and extraordinary achievements behind humanity's first spacewalk.
Inside this volume, discover:
- The race to make history: How Soviet engineers transformed the Vostok spacecraft into Voskhod 2, developed the revolutionary inflatable Volga airlock, and prepared to achieve another historic first ahead of America's Gemini program.
- The first spacewalk in extraordinary detail: Experience Leonov's journey into open space, understand the Berkut spacesuit and its limitations, and discover why returning through the airlock became one of the mission's most dangerous moments.
- The hidden challenges behind the triumph: Explore the failed Kosmos 57 rehearsal, the spacecraft's post-spacewalk difficulties, the risks of an oxygen-rich atmosphere, and the problems that threatened the return to Earth.
- The dramatic descent and survival: Follow Belyayev's manual reentry, the unexpected landing deep in the Soviet wilderness, the difficult rescue operation, and the lessons that influenced future missions.
Combining authentic mission history, accessible aerospace engineering, firsthand experiences, and lesser-known discoveries, this book reveals how the earliest space pioneers confronted challenges for which no established solutions existed.
From the engineering workshops of the Soviet space program to the silence of orbit and the forests where the mission ended, readers will gain a deeper understanding of the people, machines, and decisions that made the first spacewalk possible.
Discover the mission that opened the door to humanity's future outside the spacecraft.
Part of Aerospace Missions, the historical spaceflight series by Bob Martin.
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