Название: US Spacesuits, 2nd Edition
Авторы: Kenneth S. Thomas and Harold J. McMann
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2012
Страниц: 501
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 55 MB
Ken Thomas and Joe McMann have produced a magnificent treatise on spacesuits, spacewalking, life support systems and escape systems. U.S. Spacesuits is historical, massively comprehensive, precise, informative, relevant, and readable.
This book is an accurate and detailed history. It is a comprehensive chronology but it is also much more. It not only tells and shows what happened but it deals with how and why things happened. It addresses the hardware and processes that came into fruition and, very importantly, also addresses the options that might have occurred, but did not. It deals with history as an evolutionary process and shows the selection and development system at work. Although it is a history, it also carries the reader into the future; one is able to derive future possibilities from the historical trajectories it builds.
