Book Description
Featuring flaps, pull tabs, and other manipulable parts, an interactive book invites children to launch, fly, and land their own space shuttle on a mission to space.
Author : Ken Wilson-Max
Publisher : Cartwheel Books
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 18,95 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780439136563
Featuring flaps, pull tabs, and other manipulable parts, an interactive book invites children to launch, fly, and land their own space shuttle on a mission to space.
Author : Eric Braun
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 41,1 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1404855343
Discusses activities astronauts do while they're in space.
Author : Heppenheimer Ta
Publisher : Smithsonian
Page : pages
File Size : 47,46 MB
Release : 2002-05-17
Category :
ISBN : 9781588340092
Author : Dennis R. Jenkins
Publisher :
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 32,37 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Cockpit
ISBN : 9781857801163
History of the US space shuttle programme and its first 100 missions
Author : Michael D. Leinbach
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 47,55 MB
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 1628728523
Voted the Best Space Book of 2018 by the Space Hipsters The dramatic inside story of the epic search and recovery operation after the Columbia space shuttle disaster. On February 1, 2003, Columbia disintegrated on reentry before the nation’s eyes, and all seven astronauts aboard were lost. Author Mike Leinbach, Launch Director of the space shuttle program at NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center was a key leader in the search and recovery effort as NASA, FEMA, the FBI, the US Forest Service, and dozens more federal, state, and local agencies combed an area of rural east Texas the size of Rhode Island for every piece of the shuttle and her crew they could find. Assisted by hundreds of volunteers, it would become the largest ground search operation in US history. This comprehensive account is told in four parts: Parallel Confusion Courage, Compassion, and Commitment Picking Up the Pieces A Bittersweet Victory For the first time, here is the definitive inside story of the Columbia disaster and recovery and the inspiring message it ultimately holds. In the aftermath of tragedy, people and communities came together to help bring home the remains of the crew and nearly 40 percent of shuttle, an effort that was instrumental in piecing together what happened so the shuttle program could return to flight and complete the International Space Station. Bringing Columbia Home shares the deeply personal stories that emerged as NASA employees looked for lost colleagues and searchers overcame immense physical, logistical, and emotional challenges and worked together to accomplish the impossible. Featuring a foreword and epilogue by astronauts Robert Crippen and Eileen Collins, and dedicated to the astronauts and recovery search persons who lost their lives, this is an incredible, compelling narrative about the best of humanity in the darkest of times and about how a failure at the pinnacle of human achievement became a story of cooperation and hope.
Author : Jeffrey Zuehlke
Publisher : First Avenue Editions
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 37,85 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822564262
Simple explanation of the launch and journey of a space shuttle.
Author : Colin Burgess
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 37,41 MB
Release : 2007-07-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 0387496785
This book is as a detailed, but highly readable and balanced account of the history of animal space flights carried out by all nations, but principally the United States and the Soviet Union. It explores the ways in which animal high-altitude and space flight research impacted on space flight biomedicine and technology, and how the results - both successful and disappointing - allowed human beings to then undertake that same hazardous journey with far greater understanding and confidence. This complete and authoritative book will undoubtedly become the ultimate authority on animal space flights.
Author : Robert D. Legler
Publisher : www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,59 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781782662235
Full color publication. This document has been produced and updated over a 21-year period. It is intended to be a handy reference document, basically one page per flight, and care has been exercised to make it as error-free as possible. This document is basically "as flown" data and has been compiled from many sources including flight logs, flight rules, flight anomaly logs, mod flight descent summary, post flight analysis of mps propellants, FDRD, FRD, SODB, and the MER shuttle flight data and inflight anomaly list. Orbit distance traveled is taken from the PAO mission statistics.
Author : Mike Mullane
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 38,58 MB
Release : 2007-02-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0743276833
Selected as a Mission Specialist in 1978 in the first group of shuttle astronauts, Mike Mullane completed three missions and logged 356 hours aboard the Discovery and Atlantis shuttles. It was a dream come true. As a boy, Mullane could only read about space travel in science fiction, but the launch of Sputnik changed all that. Space flight became a possible dream and Mike Mullane set out to make it come true. In this absorbing memoir, Mullane gives the first-ever look into the often hilarious, sometime volatile dynamics of space shuttle astronauts - a class that included Vietnam War veterans, feminists, and propeller-headed scientists. With unprecedented candour, Mullane describes the chilling fear and unparalleled joy of space flight. As his career centred around the Challenger disaster, Mullane also recounts the heartache of burying his friends and colleagues. And he pulls no punches as he reveals the ins and outs of NASA, frank in his criticisms of the agency. A blast from start to finish, Riding Rockets is a straight-from-the-gut account of what it means to be an astronaut, just in time for this latest generation of stargazers.
Author : Rowland White
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 22,92 MB
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1501123629
"Using interviews, NASA oral histories, and recently declassified material, [this book] reveals the dramatic untold story of the first space shuttle and the dedicated people who brought the United States into the next stage of space exploration"--Dust jacket flap.