The Space Shuttle program: technologies
β Space Shuttle;Sivolella, Davide
π Library
π
2017
π Springer
π English
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The Space Shuttle Program: Technologies and Accomplishments
β Scribed by Davide Sivolella (auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 369
- Series
- Springer Praxis Books
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
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. Although outwardly identical, the capabilities of the orbiters in the late years of the program were quite different from those in 1981.
Sivolella traces the various improvements and modifications made to the shuttle over the years as part of each mission story. Technically accurate but with a pleasing narrative style and simple explanations of complex engineering concepts, the book provides details of many lesser known concepts, some developed but never flown, and commemorates the ingenuity of NASA and its partners in making each Space Shuttle mission push the boundaries of what we can accomplish in space.
Using press kits, original papers, newspaper and magazine articles, memoirs and interviews, this book provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of the shuttleβs many missions and will refocus interest on a remarkable flying machine and space program that is often pushed to the background.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
A Remarkable Flying Machine....Pages 1-22
Launch Platform....Pages 23-53
EVA Operations....Pages 54-83
Learning to Build a Space Station....Pages 84-111
Satellite Servicing....Pages 112-152
Science Laboratory....Pages 153-182
Spacelab Stories....Pages 183-214
Space Industries....Pages 215-249
Space Shuttle in Uniform....Pages 250-274
Something That Nobody Had Ever Done Before....Pages 275-313
More Power and Time Needed....Pages 314-327
Adding New Capabilities....Pages 328-339
The Legacy of the Shuttle Program....Pages 340-348
Back Matter....Pages 349-360
β¦ Subjects
Aerospace Technology and Astronautics;Popular Science, general;Engineering Design
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