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Category : Space shuttles
Languages : en
Pages : 141

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Author: Roger D. Launius
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Category : Space shuttles
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Author: Joan Lisa Bromberg
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801865329
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Few federal agencies have more extensive ties to the private sector than NASA. NASA's relationships with its many aerospace industry suppliers of rocket engines, computers, electronics, gauges, valves, O-rings, and other materials have often been described as "partnerships." These have produced a few memorable catastrophes, but mostly technical achievements of the highest order. Until now, no one has written extensively about them. In NASA and the Space Industry, Joan Lisa Bromberg explores how NASA's relationship with the private sector developed and how it works. She outlines the various kinds of expertise public and private sectors brought to the tasks NASA took on, describing how this division of labor changed over time. She explains why NASA sometimes encouraged and sometimes thwarted the privatization of space projects and describes the agency's role in the rise of such new space industries as launch vehicles and communications satellites.

Author: Piers Bizony
Publisher: Zenith Press
ISBN: 0760347816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307

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Get a full retrospective of all 134 flights, every mission, of the space shuttle program. This superbly designed and lavishly illustrated reissue of the best-selling hardcover book marks a special moment in history: the final mission of the space shuttle. Noted space and science author Piers Bizony's retrospective covers the entire space shuttle program that began in 1981 and ended in 2011. Every space shuttle mission is detailed, including all flights of the Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour spacecraft. The book also covers the development and design of the orbiter, as well as the technical specifications of the vehicle and details of its major assemblies and subassemblies. A full double-gatefold provides a large-scale technical drawing of the space shuttle. If you never got to watch the countdown clock in person during a space shuttle launch, The Space Shuttle is your chance to relive the history of America's first low Earth orbital spacecraft.

Author: Heppenheimer Ta
Publisher: Smithsonian
ISBN: 9781588340092
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Languages : en
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Author: Wayne Hale
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160887604
Category : Space shuttles
Languages : en
Pages : 570

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Explains how the space shuttle works and describes a shuttle trip from lift-off to touchdown.

Author: United States. Columbia Accident Investigation Board
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Category : Space shuttles
Languages : en
Pages : 584

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Author: NASA
Publisher: Pagekicker Corporation
ISBN: 9781608888986
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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An annotated bibliography of the Space Shuttle program, 1979-2011, originally published by NASA as Towards A History of the Space Shuttle. This version of the book includes both the first and second volumes; the first volume is not elsewhere available in print. Facsimile edition.

Author: Suzanne Lieurance
Publisher: Enslow Publishing
ISBN: 9780766014190
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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Traces the history of the space shuttle Challenger mission and shows the causes of the space disaster that shocked the world.

Author: David Hitt
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803255497
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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After the Apollo program put twelve men on the moon and safely brought them home, anything seemed possible. In this spirit, the team at NASA set about developing the Space Shuttle, arguably the most complex piece of machinery ever created. The world's first reusable spacecraft, it launched like a rocket, landed like a glider, and carried out complicated missions in between. Bold They Rise tells the story of the Space Shuttle through the personal experiences of the astronauts, engineers, and scientists who made it happen--in space and on the ground, from the days of research and design through the heroic accomplishments of the program to the tragic last minutes of the Challenger disaster. In the participants' own voices, we learn what so few are privy to: what it was like to create a new form of spacecraft, to risk one's life testing that craft, to float freely in the vacuum of space as a one-man satellite, to witness a friend's death. A "guided tour" of the shuttle--in historical, scientific, and personal terms--this book provides a fascinating, richly informed, and deeply personal view of a feat without parallel in the human story. Browse more spaceflight books at upinspace.org.