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The Pre-Astronauts: Manned Ballooning on the Threshold of Space Book

The Pre-Astronauts: Manned Ballooning on the Threshold of Space
The Pre-Astronauts: Manned Ballooning on the Threshold of Space, Back in the 1950s and early 1960s, before liquid-fuel rockets had launched us full-sail onto what John Kennedy would call the new ocean, a small fraternity of daring, brilliant men made the first exploratory trips into the upper stratosphere to the edge, The Pre-Astronauts: Manned Ballooning on the Threshold of Space has a rating of 4 stars
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  • The Pre-Astronauts: Manned Ballooning on the Threshold of Space
  • Written by author Craig Ryan
  • Published by Naval Institute Press, March 2003
  • Back in the 1950s and early 1960s, before liquid-fuel rockets had launched us full-sail onto what John Kennedy would call the "new ocean," a small fraternity of daring, brilliant men made the first exploratory trips into the upper stratosphere to the edge
  • Back in the 1950s and early 1960s, before liquid-fuel rockets had launched us full-sail onto what John Kennedy would call the "new ocean," a small fraternity of daring, brilliant men made the first exploratory trips into the upper stratosphere to the edge
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Back in the 1950s and early 1960s, before liquid-fuel rockets had launched us full-sail onto what John Kennedy would call the "new ocean," a small fraternity of daring, brilliant men made the first exploratory trips into the upper stratosphere to the edge of outer space in tiny capsules suspended beneath plastic balloons. They saw things no one had ever seen, and they experienced conditions no one was sure they could survive. This book tells the story of these brave and tenacious men as they labored on the cusp of a new age. The author captures the drama of their spectacular achievements and those of many of the other space pioneers who made America's stratospheric balloon programs possible. Their now largely forgotten programs supplied many systems and processes adopted by NASA. Unfortunately, some of the valuable lessons they brought back from the edge of space were ignored - in at least one case, with disastrous consequences. Craig Ryan's argument is compelling for the inclusion of these men's achievements in the broad history of space exploration and astronautics. In their day, before Gagarin and Glenn and American flags on the Sea of Tranquillity, these pre-astronauts were the space program.

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Joseph Kittinger, who stepped out of his gondola at 103,000 feet and free-fell to Earth, becoming the first person to break the sound barrier without a vehicle; and David Simons who stayed aloft for a full day and night and was the first to see the curvature of the planet; are among those who floated to the edge of space beneath balloons in the late 1950s and 1960s. Based on interviews, Ryan describes their experiences and contributions to science. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)


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