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Enhancing Hubble's vision

David J. Shayler, Author ; David M. Harland, Author | New York ; London ; Chichester : Springer-Praxis | 2016

After a 20-year struggle to place a large, sophisticated optical telescope in orbit the Hubble Space Telescope was finally launched in 1990, though its primary mirror was soon found to be flawed. A dramatic mission in 1993 installed corrective [...]

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Assembling and supplying the ISS : the space shuttle fulfills its mission /

David J. Shayler, Author | New York ; London ; Chichester : Springer-Praxis | 2016

The creation and utilization of the International Space Station (ISS) is a milestone in space exploration. But without the space shuttle, it would have remained an impossible dream. This book is the story of how, between 1998 and 2011, the shutt[...]

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Space rescue : ensuring the safety of manned spaceflight

David J. Shayler | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in space exploration | 2009

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NASA'S scientist-astronauts

David J. Shayler ; Colin Burgess | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in space exploration | 2007

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Russia's cosmonauts : inside the Yuri Gagarin training center

Rex Hall ; David J. Shayler ; Bert Vis | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in space exploration | 2005

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Marswalk one : first steps on a new planet

David J. Shayler ; Andrew Salmon ; Michael D. Shayler | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in space exploration | 2005

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Women in space - Following Valentina

David J. Shayler ; Ian A. Moule | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in space exploration | 2005

The story of woman in space charts the pioneering aeronautical developments of the early decades of the 20th century to the very start of human exploration, and on to the Shuttle and space station era. The authors chronicle these missions into s[...]

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Walking in space

David J. Shayler | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in astronomy and space sciences | 2004

In this book, David Shayler explores the development of space walking techniques and support hardware. The author draws upon original documentation, personal interviews and official post flight reports revealing the very personal experience of e[...]

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Apollo : the lost and forgotten missions

David J. Shayler | New York ; London ; Chichester : Springer-Praxis | 2002

The author chronicles these developments in adapting the lunar hardware to meet other objectives. Apollo, was a program of eleven missions.

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The rocket men : Vostok & Voskhod, the first Soviet manned spaceflights

Rex Hall ; David J. Shayler | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in astronomy and space sciences | 2001

In four short years from 1961, the first manned orbiting space vehicle -Vostok- went into orbit, the first spacecraft piloted by a woman was launched, and the first man stepped outside his orbiting spaceship. All these milestone events were achi[...]

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Skylab - America's space station

David J. Shayler | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in astronomy and space sciences | 2001

Between May 1973 and February 1974 three teams of astronauts increased the American space endurance record from 14 days, set in 1965, to three months aboard the Skylab space station in missions lasting 28, 59 and 84 days. American astronauts did[...]

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Gemini : steps to the Moon

David J. Shayler | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in astronomy and space sciences | 2001

In May 1961 President John F. Kennedy promised the American people that there would be a manned Moon landing by the end of the decade -but at this time the longest that any astronaut had spent in space was 15 minutes. In his speech, Kennedy spok[...]

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Disasters and accidents in manned spaceflight

David J. Shayler | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in astronomy and space sciences | 2000

Today we think of manned space flight as almost routine... Despite this, the fact is that the human exploration of space has always pushed the boundaries of science and technology and once in a while things can go terribly wrong (Challenger, Apo[...]

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