Tim Peake and Britain's road to space
This book puts the reader in the flight suit of Britain's first male astronaut, Tim Peake. It chronicles his life, along with the Principia mission and the down-to-the-last-bolt descriptions of life aboard the ISS, by way of the hurdles placed by the British government and the rigors of trainin...
| Main Author: | Seedhouse, Erik, |
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| Other Authors: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cham, Switzerland :
Springer,
2017.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
| Series: |
Springer-Praxis books in space exploration.
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| Subjects: |
Peake, Tim,
-- 1972-
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: 26 million horsepower
- Chapter 2: You mean we have a space program?
- Chapter 3: Right place, right time
- Chapter 4: Britain's astronauts
- Chapter 5: It was a beautiful launch
- Chapter 6: A brilliant ambassador
- Chapter 7: Principia part 2
- Chapter 8: So how did he do?
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- Appendix III
- Appendix IV
- Appendix V
- Appendix VI
- Index.