Splashdown: Nasa, the Navy, & Space Flight Recovery

by Don Blair

Book Overview

This is the first-ever publication detailing the Navy's role in manned spacecraft recovery from 1961 to 1975, from Alan Shepherd's initial suborbital mission to the Apollo-Soyuz flight, which inaugurated the first space collaboration between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Splashdown: NASA, the Navy, and Space Flight Recovery takes the reader through a detailed explanation of how recovery forces on land, sea, and in the air were deployed across the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1630264237
• ISBN13: 9781630264239
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Turner
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"