Disasters and Accidents in Manned Spaceflight

From: rk (stellare_at_nospamplease.comcast.net)
Date: 01/15/05 

Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:19:14 -0600

Just finished a good book and thought that I'd recommend it.

-- rk

Disasters and Accidents in Manned Spaceflight

David J. Shayler
Springer-Praxis Books in Astronomy and Space Sciences
ISBN 1-85233-225-5
© Praxis Publishing Ltd

Table of Contents (high level and abbreviated)

The Quest for Space
   Overview
   Pioneers of the stratosphere
   Parachutes and rocket sledges
   Rocket research pilot accidents: legends of the Right Stuff

Training for Space
   Overview
   The Apollo 1 fire, January 1967

Launch to Space
   Overview: Gemini 6; Apollo 12; STS-8; STS 41-D; STS-19 (51-F); STS-93
   Soyuz Launch Aborts, 1975 and 1983
   The STS-25 (51-L) launch explosion

Survival in Space
   Overview: Medical incidents; Equipment anomalies; Docking incidents;
             Space Shuttle sub-system anomalies; Extravehicular activity
             incidents
   Gemini 8 in-flight abort
   The Apollo 13 explosion
   Mir: fire and a collision

Return from Space
   Overview: Liberty Bell 7; Aurora 7; Soyuz 5; Apollo 15; Apollo-Soyuz
             Test Project; Soyuz 23; STS 51-D
   The Soyuz 1 landing accident
   Soyuz 11 decompression

The Future in Space
   Overview: International Space Station; Return to the Moon and the
             inner plants; The Outer Solar System; Human Elements

Conclusion
  

-- 
rk, Just an OldEngineer
"Engineers abhor extrapolation"
-- Ken Iliff, from _Runway to Orbit_, 2004

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