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Title:
The unbroken chain
Author:
Wendt, Guenter.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
Burlington, Ont., Canada : Apogee Books, [2001]

©2001
Physical Description:
216 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm + 1 computer disc (4 3/4 in.)
Language:
English
Contents:
CD-ROM: The Unbroken Chain: a tour of the historic Cape Canaveral launch facilities hosted by retired Pad Leader Guenter Wendt. Videos: Blockhouse and Launch Procedures -- Spacecraft and Pad preparation for Mercury Redstone 1 through 3: Escape Systems -- Developing the Green Room and the White Room -- Astrochimps -- Blockhouse Pad 5 -- Pad 5 launching a Redstone -- Cable trenches -- Mercury-Redstone 1 launch failure -- Pad 14 -- Pad 19 -- Pad 19 White Room stories -- Pad 19 countdown clocks, TV cameras and Gemini-Titan 6A launch abort -- Pad 34: Apollo 7 and pigs in space! -- Pad 34: slidewires Quicktime Virtual Panoramas: Pad 5: Launch site for Alan B. Shepard, Freedom 7 -- Pad 14: Launch site for John Glenn, Friendship 7 -- Pad 19: Launch site for all of the Gemini/Titan flights -- Pad 34: Launch site for Apollo 7 and the site of the Apollo 1 fire -- Documents: Guenter's references.
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ISBN:
9781896522845
Format :
Book