Spaceflight: A Smithsonian GuideSpaceflight This comprehensive, easy-to-use guide tells the fascinating story of one of the greatest scientific achievements of our times—the conquest of space. Produced in association with the world-renowned Smithsonian Institution and its scientific experts, Spaceflight recounts the epic adventure of the men, women, and machines that took us into space. This Smithsonian Guide features:
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aboard Agena Aldrin altitude antenna Apollo 11 April astro astronauts Atlantis booster Braun capsule carried comet command module communications satellites cosmonauts craft descent designed developed docking Earth's atmosphere Explorer feet flight fuel Gemini Gemini IV Gemini VI Goddard gravity Hubble Space Telescope images July Jupiter km/hr landing launch vehicle launchpad liftoff liquid oxygen liquid-propellant lite low Earth orbit lunar module lunar surface magnetic field maneuvering Mariner Mars Mercury missile mission Moon NASA naut nuclear October payload Piloted Spaceflight Program Pioneer planet pounds probes propellant propulsion radio reentry rendezvous return to Earth rocket engines Salyut satel Saturn sion Skylab solid-propellant Soviet Union Soyuz Soyuz 19 Soyuz spacecraft Space Shuttle space station space suit space walk spacecraft Spacelab Sputnik Telescope temperature thrust thrusters tion Titan trajectory transmitted U.S. astronaut U.S. space unpiloted upper stage Venera Venus Voskhod Vostok Voyager Wernher von Braun