Charles Ira Coombs (1914–1994)
Autor(a) de Project Apollo: Mission to the Moon
About the Author
Obras de Charles Ira Coombs
Aerospace Power 3 cópias
Young Readers Water Sports Stories 3 cópias
Young Reader's Mystery Stories 2 cópias
Project Mercury 2 cópias
Ranch Mystery 2 cópias
Young Readers Football Stories 1 exemplar(es)
Baseball Stories 1 exemplar(es)
Young Readers Atom Mystery 1 exemplar(es)
Young Readers - Stories of the Diamond 1 exemplar(es)
Window on the world; the story of television production 1 exemplar(es)
Young readers sports treasury; 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Everygirls Adventure Stories — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Coombs, Charles Ira
- Data de nascimento
- 1914-06-27
- Data de falecimento
- 1994-02-20
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Locais de residência
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Membros
Resenhas
Prêmios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 82
- Also by
- 2
- Membros
- 443
- Popularidade
- #55,291
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 6
- ISBNs
- 51
- Idiomas
- 1
look at the human factors involved in the rapidly expanding field of terrestrial flight. Much of his material does cover the work being done to study the possibilities of space flight and this includes chapters on the G- load experiments of Col. Stapp as well as the psychological factors men must consider when floating in space. But for the most part his text is an excitingly presented consideration of test planes now being developed, of physical and mechanical problems tangential to flying beyond the speed of sound, of possibilities for civilian travel as well as military endeavors, of experiments such as the convertiplane (which may revolutionize air travel) and the pogo stick. A good layman's introduction made interesting by its suspenseful style and its speculations on the effect of machinery on man.… (mais)