Haynes Publishing, 2011. — 196 p. — ISBN 978 1844258666. Designed between 1969 and 1972 and first flown into space in 1981, the NASA Shuttle will have flown almost 140 missions by the time it is retired in 2010. David Baker describes the origin of the reusable launch vehicle concept during the 1960s, its evolution into a viable flying machine in the early 1970s, and its...
Motorbooks, 2021. — 192 p. — ISBN 978-0760370049. Written and curated by recognized historians of space exploration, NASA Space Shuttle: 40th Anniversary is the authoritative photo history of the iconic space program. Officially known as the Space Transportation System (STS), the Space Shuttle program operated from 1981 to 2011. During that time, five Shuttle systems took part...
Limited First Printing. — Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Government Printing Office, 2003. — 245 p. The Columbia Accident Investigation Board's independent investigation into the February 1, 2003, loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia and its seven-member crew lasted nearly seven months. A staff of more than 120, along with some 400 NASA...
University of Nebraska Press, 2019. — 456 p. — (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight Series) 2020 Space Hipsters Prize for Best Book in Astronomy, Space Exploration, or Space History. Come Fly with Us is the story of an elite group of space travelers who flew as members of many space shuttle crews from pre- Challenger days to Columbia in 2003. Not part of the...
Springer is part of Springer-Science + Business Media (springer.com), 2007. XVIII, 290 p. — ISBN10: 0-387-46355-0, ISBN13: 978-0-387-46355-1 – (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration). This book details the stories of Challenger’s missions from the points of view of the astronauts, engineers, and scientists who flew and knew her and the managers, technicians, and ground...
New York: Springer, 2021. — 303 p. 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...
Springer, 2021 — 303 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-70777-4 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...
Springer, 2022. — 550 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-86774-4. Spacelab was a reusable laboratory facility that was flown on the Space Shuttle from 1983 to 1998. Completing 22 major missions and contributing to many other NASA goals, Spacelab stands as one of the Shuttle program’s most resounding successes.The system comprised multiple components, including a pressurized laboratory module,...
Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1999. — 488 p. NASAs Search for a Reusable Space Vehicle. The NASA History Series Space Stations and Winged Rockets The Cullier’s Series Background to the Space Station Winged Rockets: The Work of Eugen Siinger The Navaho and the Main Line of American Liquid Rocketry The X- 15 : An Airplane for Hypersonic Research...
University of Nebraska, 2014. — 352 p. — (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight). — ISBN: 0803226489, ISBN13: 9780803226487. 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....
University of Nebraska Press, 2013. — 456 p. — (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight Series) Humanity’s first reusable spacecraft and the most complex machine ever built, NASA’s Space Shuttle debuted with great promise and as a dependable source of wonder and national pride. But with the Challenger catastrophe in 1986, the whole Space Shuttle program came into...
Revised Edition. — 1988. — 160 p. — ISBN 0-345-34181-3. A handbook for hopeful Space Shuttle astronauts. The manual is based on NASA designs and actual mission logs of various Space Shuttle missions. This is the 1988 revised edition released after the loss of the Challenger but before the "Return to Flight" STS-26 mission in October of 1988. New Astronauts! Welcome aboard! This...
Zenith Press, 2014. 144 p. - ISBN: 978-0-7603-4383-8 (hardcover) - (Smithsonian Series). This book places Space Shuttle Discovery within the history of the space shuttle program and provides an introduction to space shuttle technology, with a focus on the orbiter itself. Discovery's unique history is presented mission by mission that includes a brief narrative of each mission,...
Romere Paul O., Charles H. Campbell, Jose M. Caram, Stanley A. Bouslog. — NASA, 1996. — 654 p. Several Space Shuttle Orbiter flights have experienced earlier than expected laminar to turbulent boundary layer transition. Such an experience has often been asymmetric in nature, which results in unplanned control requirements and often higher localized heating. It was typically...
New York: Springer, 2017. — 264 p. How could the newly authorized space shuttle help in the U.S. quest to build a large research station in Earth orbit? As a means of transporting goods, the shuttle could help supply the parts to the station. But how would the two entitles be physically linked? Docking technologies had to constantly evolve as the designs of the early space...
New York: Springer, 2017. — 369 p. This book tells the story of the Space Shuttle in its many different roles as orbital launch platform, orbital workshop, and science and technology laboratory. It focuses on the technology designed and developed to support the missions of the Space Shuttle program. Each mission is examined, from both the technical and managerial viewpoints....
Springer Cham, 2022. — 343 p. — (Space Exploration). — eBook ISBN 978-3-031-19653-9. In September 1969, several months after the Apollo 11 lunar landing, President Richard M. Nixon established the Space Task Force to chart NASA’s path for the decades to come. This imaginative vision was shattered less than six months later when, on January 13, 1970, NASA Administrator Dr....
Springer Cham, 2022. — 343 p. — (Space Exploration). — eBook ISBN 978-3-031-19653-9. In September 1969, several months after the Apollo 11 lunar landing, President Richard M. Nixon established the Space Task Force to chart NASA’s path for the decades to come. This imaginative vision was shattered less than six months later when, on January 13, 1970, NASA Administrator Dr....
Sprioger Scionce+Business Media Now York, 2014. 523 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4614-0982-3, ISBN: 978-1-4614-0983-0 (eBook). The Space Shuttle has been the dominant machinein the U.S. space program for thirty years and has generated a great deal of interest among space enthusiasts and engineers. This book enables readers to understand its technical systems in greater depth than they have...
Sprioger Scionce+Business Media Now York, 2014. 523 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4614-0982-3, ISBN: 978-1-4614-0983-0 (eBook). Для открытия файла также необходимо скачать Part 2 и Part 3 , воспользоваться руководством по открытию файла, состоящего из нескольких архивированных частей. The Space Shuttle has been the dominant machinein the U.S. space program for thirty years and has generated...
Sprioger Scionce+Business Media Now York, 2014. 523 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4614-0982-3, ISBN: 978-1-4614-0983-0 (eBook). Для открытия файла также необходимо скачать Part 1 и Part 3 , воспользоваться руководством по открытию файла, состоящего из нескольких архивированных частей. The Space Shuttle has been the dominant machinein the U.S. space program for thirty years and has generated...
Sprioger Scionce+Business Media Now York, 2014. 523 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4614-0982-3, ISBN: 978-1-4614-0983-0 (eBook). Для открытия файла также необходимо скачать Part 1 и Part 2 , воспользоваться руководством по открытию файла, состоящего из нескольких архивированных частей. The Space Shuttle has been the dominant machinein the U.S. space program for thirty years and has generated...
NASA, 1971. — 443 p. General - Generator Subsystem - Alternating current (400 Hertz), for the main propulsion engines and the propellant recirculation pumps, is produced by three ac generators. Each generator is driven by one of three turbine power units (APU) that drive the hydraulic system pumps. The generators are mounted to the gearbox of the APU. Turbine speed control is...
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