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Introduction
Chapter 1
At Heaven’s Door – Testing the Limits
Introduction: from the Wright brothers to the X-1
Breaking the sound barrier
Eugene F. May tests the Skyrocket
Scott Crossfield’s engine explodes
Chapter 2
Rockets Away – Escape from Earth
From the Second World War to the space race
Which way to the moon?
Project Mercury
The first US manned space flight
Gus Grissom’s mishap
Glenn’s orbital flight
Malfunctions aboard Scott Carpenter’s orbital flight
Chapter 3
Man in Space – The Glory Days
Project Gemini
Project Gemini and the bush telegraph
Soviet test disasters
Voskhod 2: the first space walk
Gemini III: Grissom in trouble again
Gemini IV: the first US space walk
Gemini VIII has to abort
Gemini IX and the angry alligator
Gemini XI: asleep in a vacuum
Gemini XII: Aldrin space walks on his first flight
The Apollo 1 disaster
The Soyuz 1 disaster
The Apollo program is revised
NASA’s plans are threatened
Armstrong crashes in training
Apollo 8 flies around the moon
Apollo 9: an “all-up” test
Apollo 10: the full-scale rehearsal
Apollo 11: the eagle has landed
Apollo 12 is struck by lightning
Apollo 13’s problem – 11–17 April 1970
Scares on Apollo 14
Apollo 15: a scientific and technical peak
Apollo 16’s cliff-hanger
Apollo 17: last man on the moon
Skylab in deep trouble
Soviets’ 20G return to Earth
Apollo-Soyuz shaking hands
Chapter 4
Retreat to Earth – Cancellations Galore
Skylab plunges to Earth
Salyut 7 is revived
Report on the Challenger accident
Mir: introduction
Dangerous, emergency EVA aboard Mir
Hubble’s troubles
The depressed astronaut
Mir’s Kurs system fails
The fire aboard Mir
The near miss
Linenger’s EVA “just out there dangling”
An unmanned Progress supply vessel crashes into Mir
Mir loses all its power
Cosmonaut experiences a leak in his spacesuit
John Glenn’s shuttle flight
The end of Mir
First hearing on the Shuttle Columbia accident
Chapter 5
New Horizons – The Ongoing Quest
Life on Mars
Martian space race
Smart 1: the Star Trek propulsion system
Storm of stardust threatens satellites
Goodbye Galileo
Heinlein Prize
Alt.Space
SpaceShipOne
Hubble: the Next Generation Space Telescope
China joins the space race
2014: the Rosetta space odyssey
The oldest stars ever seen
Appendix – Space, Fact and Fiction
List of Illustrations
Bibliography & Sources
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