Walking to Olympus

Download or read book Walking to Olympus written by Julie B. Ta and published by Walking to Olympus. This book was released on 2016 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of Walking to Olympus: An EVA Chronology (Monograph in Aerospace History Series #50, March 2016) continues from the end of the Shuttle-Mir program in 1997 to the end of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. It includes not only spacewalks performed by USA astronauts and the Russian/Soviet cosmonauts, but also those of the newest members of the EVA community, the taikonauts of the People's Republic of China (Chinese taikonauts performed their first spacewalk on September 27, 2008). Space programs with EVAs that are included in this second volume are: the Mir and the International Space Station (ISS) programs (Russia), the Space Shuttle and the ISS programs (USA), and the Shenzhou space program (China).