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Touching Space: The Story of Project Manhigh
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Touching Space: The Story of Project Manhigh Paperback - 2007

by Gregory P. Kennedy


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Project Manhigh took humans to the threshold of space using balloons. In the 1950s, a small band of Air Force doctors were on the cutting edge of the United States' space research programs. Working at the Aeromedical Field Laboratory at Holloman Air Force Base in southern New Mexico, they used balloons to carry laboratory animals followed by human pilots above 99% of the atmosphere. Drawing upon flight reports and technical data, this book documents Project Manhigh and the high altitude flights that preceded it. The Manhigh flights were, in many ways, prototypes for future space missions. On each of the three flights, the Air Force placed a lone pilot in a sealed capsule nineteen miles above the ground. At such extreme altitudes, the pilots were well within the functional equivalent of outer space and needed the sealed capsule to survive. Manhigh existed prior to the creation of NASA and helped pave the way for human space exploration.

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  • Title Touching Space: The Story of Project Manhigh
  • Author Gregory P. Kennedy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 128
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Schiffer Military, Atglen, Pennsylvania, U.S. A
  • Date August 15, 2007
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780764327889 / 0764327887
  • Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.4 in (27.69 x 21.34 x 1.02 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Outer space - Exploration - United States -, Aeronautics, Military - United States -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007928740
  • Dewey Decimal Code 358.400
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