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Bezig met laden... Then Will The Great Ocean Wash Deep Abovedoor Ian Sales
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   ) KrakenTamer | Oct 23, 2021 |   ) renbedell | Aug 15, 2017 | ) AlanPoulter | Jan 25, 2014 | This episode starts from the major premise that the Korean War has dragged on and on, and that the Mercury program chose its crews from the so-called Mercury 13 – the group of women pilots who, as part of a privately funded process, also underwent some of the same physiological testing performed on the USAs male astronaut corps. A second thread to the tale involves the use of the bathyscaphe Trieste II to retrieve a spy satellite film canister from the Puerto Rico Trench. Once again, Sales gives us a thoughtful and poignant story, grounded both in the technology of the Apollo and earlier space programmes and in the realpolitik of an unbroken Cold War. He paints a very believable picture of what may have happened and the story of the women’s treatment is painfully evocative of the casual and callous misogyny of the 1960s. In short, Sales has given us yet another well-told tale – highly recommended. (  )1  Surtac | Jan 15, 2014 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Apollo Quartet (Book 3)
It is April 1962. The Korean War has escalated and the US is struggling to keep the Russians and Chinese north of the 38th parallel. All the men are away fighting, but that doesn't mean the Space Race is lost. NASA decides to look elsewhere for its astronauts: the thirteen women pilots who passed the same tests as the original male candidates. These are the Mercury 13: Jerrie Cobb, Janey Hart, Myrtle Cagle, Jerri Sloan, Jan Dietrich, Marion Dietrich, Bernice Steadman, Wally Funk, Sarah Gorelick, Gene Nora Stumbough, Jean Hixson, Rhea Hurrle and Irene Leverton. One of these women will be the first American in space. Another will be the first American to spacewalk. Perhaps one will even be the first human being to walk on the Moon. Beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, deep in the Puerto Rico Trench north of San Juan, lies a film bucket from a KH-4 Corona spy satellite. It should have been caught in mid-air by a C-130 from the 6549th Test Group. That didn't happen. So the US Navy bathyscaphe Trieste II must descend twenty thousand feet to retrieve the bucket, down where light has never reached and the pressure is four tons per square inch. But there is more in the depths than anyone had expected, much more. This is not our world. But it very nearly was. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
LibraryThing-AuteurIan Sales is een LibraryThing auteur: een auteur die zijn persoonlijke bibliotheek toont op LibraryThing. Actuele discussiesGeenPopulaire omslagen
 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.92Literature English English fiction Modern Period 2000-WaarderingGemiddelde: (3.68)
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