From the contents:
The Profile of Manned Spaceflight.- Methods of Leaving Earth.- Methods of Spaceflight.- Methods of Returning to Earth.- 2. Manned Spaceflight Programmes.- X-15 Rocket Research Aircraft and the X-20 Dyna Soar.- Vostok and Voskhod.- Mercury.- Gemini and the USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory.- Apollo and Skylab.- Soyuz and Zond.- Salyut and Almaz.- Mir.- Shuttle and Spacelab.- Buran And Hermes.- International Space Station.- 3. Quest for Space.- X-15 Astro Flights 1962-1968.- Mercury Sub Orbital Missions 1961 Mercury 3 and Mercury 4.- Apollo 1 Pad Fire In January 1967.- Launch Pad Aborts Including The 1983 Soyuz Pad Explosion and Various.- Shuttle Pad Aborts.- 4. Manned Spaceflight Log.- 1961 – 2006.- Appendix.- World Manned Space Missions 1961-2006.- World Space Explorers 1961-2006.- World Spaceflight Experience 1961-2006.- Bibliography and References.- Index.
Tim Furniss is a well known author of 35 popular space science books including the bestselling Jane’s Manned Spaceflight Log, published in 1983 and updated in 1987, which sold 16,000 plus copies, but is now out of print. Dave Shayler has authored and co-authored 7 successful Space Science Springer-Praxis books and has a further 3 under contract for publication in 2004. We therefore have the ideal team of authors for this flagship book.
From the reviews: "This hefty (829 pages!) volume is a chronicle of every human space mission launched from Yuri Gagarin’s Vostok 1-in-April 1961 to the Soyuz TMA-9 flight to the ISS in September 2006 – 250 flights in all. It is thus an extremely useful quick-reference for any space enthusiast. … Each entry includes the basic flight statistics, the names and flight history of the crews, a summary flight log, and a box giving the flight’s key milestones. … . A very useful volume!" (David Maclennan, Liftoff, Issue 242, 2007)
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