Touching Space: The Story of Project Manhigh by Gregory P. Kennedy (English) Pap

Touching Space by Gregory P. Kennedy

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Description Project Manhigh took humans to the threshold of space using balloons. In the 1950s, a small band of Air Force doctors were on the cutting edge of the United States' space research programs. Working at the Aeromedical Field Laboratory at Holloman Air Force Base in southern New Mexico, they used balloons to carry laboratory animals followed by hyman pilots above 99 per cent of the atmosphere. Drawing upon flight reports and technical data, this book documents project Manhigh and the high altitude flights that precede it. The Manhigh flights were, in many ways, prototypes for future space missions. On each of the three flights, the Air Force placed a lone pilot in a sealed capsule nineteen miles above the ground. At such extreme altitudes, the pilots were well within the functional equivelant of outer space and needed the sealed capsule to survive. Manhigh existed prior to the creation of NASA and helped pave the way for human space exploration. Over 130 b/w images

Details ISBN 0764327887 ISBN-13 9780764327889 Title Touching Space Author Gregory P. Kennedy Format Paperback Year 2007 Pages 128 Publisher Schiffer Publishing Ltd GE_Item_ID:136597585; About Us

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