'On The Shoulders of Titans' softbound NASA book with 625 pages of photos and illustrations. SP-4203: On The Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini; Mirror of Old Gemini Image Directory (JSC) Project Gemini History Portal (JSC) Un-Manned Missions. On the Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini: Gemini X. Pad LC-19 (25) Titan-II (10) EVA . Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for On The Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini (The NASA History Series) at Amazon.com.

NASA’s second human spaceflight program, Gemini laid the groundwork for the more ambitious Apollo program which put astronauts on the Moon. Written by Barton C. Hacker and James M. Grimwood. Dated 1977. Some minor cover scuffs, but overall great shape. Gemini 5 (officially Gemini V) was a 1965 crewed spaceflight in NASA's Project Gemini.It was the third crewed Gemini flight, the eleventh crewed American spaceflight (including two X-15 flights above 100 kilometers (54 nmi)), and the nineteenth human spaceflight of all time. Invaluable is the world's largest marketplace for art, antiques, and collectibles. He outlined a half-billion dollar project to orbit a two-man Mercury capsule via the Air Force's new Titan II booster.

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Gemini was an intermediate step between Mercury and Apollo. On the Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini by Barton C. Hacker and James M. Grimwood Published as NASA Special Publication-4203 in the NASA History Series, 1977. On The Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini (The NASA History Series) Paperback – November 15, 2013 by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Author), Barton C. Hacker (Author), James M. Grimwood (Author) & 4.0 out of 5 stars 80 ratings.

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See all 10 formats and editions Hide other formats and editions. While Titan II was proving itself in flight, NASA and the Air Force completed their nearly year-long efforts under the aegis of the Gemini Program Planning Board to fix standards for the Gemini launch vehicle. This book here is a history commissioned by NASA and available on there site as a PDF. On The Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini - NASA History Office Project Gemini Technology and Operations - A Chronology - NASA History Office Gemini Summary Conference - NASA / Apollo Lunar Surface Journal. The people involved, engineering tasks, budget problems, bureaucracy, etc. NASA, he revealed, planned to launch a third manned space flight program to fill the gap between Mercury and Apollo. Titan II could carry men to new heights, allowing them to say with Isaac Newton, "If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

A straight forward history involving the details of the program. A detailed, yet highly readable book, On the Shoulders of Titans should be the starting point for all who are interested in the basic history of the Gemini Program. Buy On the Shoulders of Titans: History of Project Gemini.

On the shoulders of Titans: A history of Project Gemini (NASA SP ; 4203) Unknown Binding – January 1, 1977 by Barton C Hacker (Author) 4.0 out of 5 stars 80 ratings. The authors’ work is still very pertinent today and remains an epic work for this important space program that positioned the Apollo Program to send Astronauts to the Moon.

8 Titan might also help to underscore the living relevance of Newtonian science in an age dominated by Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics. NASA-SSD Meeting on Cost of Titan II Program, March 1, 1962," 2 March 1962; "Financial Plan - Gemini," SSD, I March 1962, with annotations by Richard J. Crane (MSC procurement) showing revised cost estimates supplied by Maj. Roland D. Foley in a telephone call on 10 Sept. 1962. NASA's second human spaceflight program, Gemini laid the groundwork for the more ambitious Apollo program which put astronauts on the Moon.

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