| Walking to Olympus - An EVA Chronology, 1997-2011 - Volume 2 (NASA SP-2016-4550) Contributor(s): Ta, Julie B. (Author), Trevino, Robert C. (Author), Space Administration, National Aeronauti (Author) |
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ISBN: 1979381755 ISBN-13: 9781979381758 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $14.49 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Aeronautics & Astronautics |
| Physical Information: 0.37" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" (0.92 lbs) 174 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The first edition of "Walking to Olympus: An EVA Chronology" (Monograph in Aerospace History #7, October 1997) spanned a period of space exploration of 32 years, from the first spacewalks in 1965 to the end of the Shuttle-Mir program in 1997. It included EVAs performed by both Soviet/Russian cosmonauts and American astronauts. The Soviet/Russian space programs that involved spacewalks were the Voskhod, Soyuz, Salyut, Mir, and Shuttle-Mir. During this same time period, the USA space programs that included spacewalks were Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Space Shuttle, and the Shuttle-Mir. This second volume of Walking to Olympus continues from the end of the Shuttle-Mir pro-gram in 1997 to the end of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. It includes not only spacewalks performed by American and European astronauts and the Russian/Soviet cosmonauts, but also those of the newest members of the EVA com-munity, the taikonauts of the People's Republic of China (Chinese taikonauts performed their first spacewalk on 27 September 2008). Space programs with EVAs that are included in this second volume are: the Mir and the International Space Station (ISS) programs (Russia), the Space Shuttle and the ISS programs (USA), and the Shenzhou space program (China). |