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The Space Shuttle = an experiment flying machine : thirty years of challenges /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Space Shuttle/ by Ben Evans.
Reminder of title:	an experiment flying machine : thirty years of challenges /
Author:	Evans, Ben.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2021.,
Description:	xi, 291 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
[NT 15003449]:	List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: A Butterfly and a Bullet -- Chapter 2: On the Ground -- Chapter 3: Blowing the Bolts -- Chapter 4: Riding the Main Engines -- Chapter 5: Big, Dumb Boosters -- Chapter 6: The External Tank -- Chapter 7: The Shuttle's Fragile Skin -- Chapter 8: The Short and the Long -- Chapter 9: Unexpected Failures -- Chapter 10: Sickness and Space Suits -- Chapter 11: Where to Land -- Index.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Astronautics - History. - United States -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70777-4
ISBN:	9783030707774

The Space Shuttle = an experiment flying machine : thirty years of challenges /
Evans, Ben.

The Space Shuttlean experiment flying machine : thirty years of challenges /[electronic resource] :by Ben Evans. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2021. - xi, 291 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Springer-Praxis books in space exploration. - Springer-Praxis books in space exploration..

List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: A Butterfly and a Bullet -- Chapter 2: On the Ground -- Chapter 3: Blowing the Bolts -- Chapter 4: Riding the Main Engines -- Chapter 5: Big, Dumb Boosters -- Chapter 6: The External Tank -- Chapter 7: The Shuttle's Fragile Skin -- Chapter 8: The Short and the Long -- Chapter 9: Unexpected Failures -- Chapter 10: Sickness and Space Suits -- Chapter 11: Where to Land -- Index.

This book explains how the achievements of the Space Shuttle, the world's first reusable manned spacecraft, were built on the foundation of countless technical challenges. Through thick and thin, the Space Shuttle remained the centerpiece of the American human spaceflight program for three decades. In addition to deploying satellites, planetary probes and, of course, the Hubble Space Telescope, it delivered astronauts to the Mir space station and assembled and sustained the International Space Station. Yet the path to these incredible achievements was never an easy one, with some obstacles resulting in the loss of life and other major consequences that plagued the fleet throughout its operational career. The book adopts a challenge-by-challenge approach, focusing on specific difficulties and how (if at all) they were fully overcome. Going beyond the technical issues, it relates the human stories of each incident and how changes were effected in order to make the shuttle an exceptionally safer - though still experimental - flying machine.

ISBN: 9783030707774

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-70777-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

897831
Astronautics
--History.--United States

LC Class. No.: TL789.8.U5 / E83 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 629.441

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