- Captivating factual reports and descriptions of events
- With technical information, drawings and photos
The journey into space has always been rocky and, despite all the apparent routine, still pushes the boundaries of technology. When something goes wrong during the ignition of several hundred tonnes of fuel or at a speed of 27,000 km/h, it usually goes wrong in a big way and, above all, very quickly! And yet some of these accidents even ended well – just think of Apollo 13. The shuttle accidents involving the Challenger and Columbia, on the other hand, were of almost unbelievable tragedy. This volume by Hermann Woydt contains many exciting stories and captivating descriptions, technical information, drawings and photos.
Contents:
- Fire on board: Apollo 1
- Death in a fireball: Soyuz 1
- Nerves of steel: Gemini 6A
- Emergency landing in the Pacific: Gemini 8
- Death at supersonic speed: X-15
- Odyssey in space: Apollo 13
- Death by suffocation: Soyuz 11
- Separation difficulties: Soyuz 18-1
- A narrow escape: Soyuz T 10 1
- A "major malfunction": Challenger STS-51 L
- Fatal return: Columbia STS-107
- Can you drown in space? The Parmitano case
- The crash of the SpaceShipTwo spacecraft
Der Autor Hermann Woydt ist Diplom-Ingenieur und arbeitet als Informatiker an der Hochschule Emden-Leer. Er ist ausgewiesener Fachmann im Bereich Raumfahrt und schrieb bereits mehrere Bücher zu diesem Thema.
