Customer Reviews
A comprehensive reference - By: Nick Stevens, 10 Aug 2007 
This is not a book you are likely to sit down & read cover to cover, but it is a detailed & comprehensive reference to every manned spaceflight. There are plenty of photos, (in place on the page for each flight, not bound into a separate chunk), but unlike the cover photos they concentrate mainly on the crew - fair enough for a book on the 'manned' part of manned space flight.
Excellent data log on manned space missions - By: Philip Corneille, 12 Jan 2007 
Excellent chronological logbook of orbital manned spaceflight. It covers the first manned Vostok-1 (Yuri Gagarin - 1961) to Soyuz TMA-09 (Int Space Station expedition 14 - 2006). The authors also included a photo depicting each crew or astronaut/cosmonaut for the single man/woman & X-15 space flights. There's a lot of information for each mission such as; Launch & landing site, duration, calllsign, scientific objectives, etc... For the STS missions, info is included on SRB set & orbiter SSME.
Finallly a worthy successor to the 1986 log by Tim Furniss but I would have preferred a Hardcover edition for a book one regularly consults. Anyway a must have for spaceflight enthusiasts.
Philip CORNEILLE
Belgium - Croatia
A must have - By: Space66, 12 Jan 2007 An amazing publication: covers Vostok-1 (Gagarin) to Soyuz TMA-9. Tons of info for each flight: International designation; launched; Launch site; Landed; Landing site; Launch vehicle (for the shuttle you have the tank number, the SRB set & the SSME engines); Duration; Calllsign; Objective; Flight Crew; Flight Log & finallly Milestones. Also three chapters cover respectively: Reaching the heavens (access/method; Space flight methods/launch systems); The Quest for Space; The orbital programmes (Vostok, Mercury, Apollo, Shuttle, Salyut, Shenzhou etc..).
An outstand reference works for anybody who is interested in the history of spaceflight!
A must have on one's bookshelf.
