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In just two-and-a-half years, beginning in 1964, two unmanned and ten manned flights took place in the Gemini program. This program was the turning point in the space race with the USSR; from then on the Americans took the lead.
Published 2006, 280 pages, 12 colour illustrations, 15 black & white diagrams, tables, softcover, 6" x 9" inches
Project Mercury was America's entry into the manned spaceflight program. When the program began in 1958, the Soviet Union was far ahead of the US in the race for supremacy in space. With immense effort, and in record time, NASA, the newly created spacefli
Published 2005, 208 pages, black & white and photographs and 25 colour photographs and illustrations, softcover, 7" x 10" inches
On December 16, 1958, a Thor intermediate-range ballistic missile became the first rocket launch from Vandenberg AFB, California. Established from the remnants of a WWII and Korean War training base named Camp Cooke, the USAF selected the location to oper
Published 2006, 96 pages, black & white and colour photographs and illustrations, softcover, 4" x 7" inches
Published August 2022, 384 pages, black & white and colour photographs, colour profiles and illustrations, line drawings, mission list, index, hardcover, 8 1/2" x 11"
Without the mighty Saturn V rocket, the Apollo 11 moon landing would not have been possible in July 1969. Even today, nearly fifty years later, it remains by far the largest and most powerful rocket ever used. Equipped with computers that are easily surpa