Echoes Among the Stars: A Short History of the U.S. Space Program: A Short History of the U.S. Space Program

by Walsh,Patrick J.

• ISBN13: 9780765605382
• ISBN10: 0765605384
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-12-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Drawing on newly declassified information about the development of the U.S. and Soviet programs and their impact on each other, and featuring 16 pages of photos, this book captures all the drama of the Space Race from before the Mercury program to the original seven astronauts, the Gemini and Apollo programs, through Skylab, and up to the space shuttle and John Glenn's historic second mission in 1998. With vivid, compelling narrative Echoes among the Stars portrays the events and emotions of every mission against the backdrop of the Cold War, the worsening domestic situation in the sixties and seventies, the war in Vietnam, and other significant events of the times.

Author Biography

Patrick Walsh is a member of the Literature and Communications faculty of Pace University in Pleasantville, New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
NASA Lifts Off: The 1950s	3	(10)
Project Mercury: Setting the Sights	13	(20)
Project Gemini: A Bridge to the Moon	33	(22)
Apollo 1: Lives in Eclipse	55	(16)
Apollo Before the Moon: Into the Light	71	(14)
Apollo 11: Life on an Ancient World	85	(12)
Apollo 12 and Apollo 13: Storms in Space	97	(12)
Before the Short Day Ends: Apollo in Twilight	109	(14)
Skylab: A Place in Space	123	(4)
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: A Handshake Across the Heavens	127	(12)
The 1970s: Journeys Without and Within	139	(4)
Echoes: The Shuttle Era and Beyond	143	(20)
Chronology: The First Era in Space, 1957-1975	163	(18)
Notes	181	(10)
Bibliography	191	(4)
Index	195	(10)
About the Author	205