Accidents and Disasters in Manned Spaceflight

Author: (English) David J. Scheller
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Publish Date: 2005-11-01
Features: This book reviews the major accidents that have occurred over the past 40 years since the implementation of human spaceflight programs, as well as the causes of these accidents and the stories behind them. The book is divided into 7 chapters: Chapter 1 reviews the dangers encountered by early humans in exploring the stratosphere; Chapters 2 to 5 describe the accidents and disasters encountered in each phase of human spaceflight training, launch, flight, and return; Chapter 6 looks ahead to future human spaceflight; and Chapter 7 discusses the experiences and lessons learned from space exploration, summarizing the entire book.