24 August 2024
NASA formally abandons Starliner for crew return to Earth
... on the Crew-9 Dragon, and adjusting the manifest to carry additional cargo, personal effects, and Dragon-specific spacesuits for Wilmore and Williams. Before the Starliner departs, the ISS astronauts are expected to rig makeshift...
02 March 2018
Soyuz Owners’ Workshop Manual
..., most readers will find that the information on Russia’s LK Moon lander, the N1 launch vehicle, the Sokol spacesuit and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project provides additional interest and context. The volume concludes with...
29 March 2018
Northern Arizona Space Training
... astronauts in Northern Arizona in the 1960s. The unusual cover picture aptly summarises the contents: it shows a spacesuited geologist testing a prototype Apollo geological camera on an undulating grassy plane; his ‘helmet’ appears to be made from...
17 July 2018
Harris Corporation to provide audio system for first human deep-space mission
... provides central audio control and signal processing; the AIU is the push to talk interface clipped to the spacesuit or shirt sleeve; and the SPU transmits voice communications, as well as caution and warning alarm tones, in the...
11 October 2018
Apollo Program Development Plan
...-pie chart with six main segments and dozens of sub-segments displays, for example, how the spacesuit manufacturer reported to the Manned Spacecraft Center and the Crawler transporter supplier reported to Kennedy Space Center...
31 December 2018
Spaceplane Hermes: Europe’s dream of independent manned spaceflight
... to the complex reasons for its eventual demise. Other aspects among the 26 chapters include astronaut training, spacesuits and escape systems, along with details of the thermal protection system and proposed communications segment via...
