David Hitt, Heather R. Smith

Bold They Rise

The Space Shuttle Early Years, 1972-1986

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bold They Rise recounts the golden age of the Space Shuttle—from its first to its twenty-fifth launch, ending with the tragic flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger.  

Produktdetails

• Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9781496229403
• ISBN-10: 1496229401
• Artikelnr.: 61382010

Autorenporträt

David Hitt is the coauthor of Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story (Nebraska, 2008). Heather R. Smith has worked as an education writer for NASA. Bob Crippen is a NASA astronaut who piloted the first Space Shuttle flight.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Feeling of Flying
2. In the Beginning
3. TFNG
4. Getting Ready to Fly
5. First Flight
6. The Demonstration Flights
7. Open for Business
8. The Next Steps
9. Science on the Shuttle
10. Secret Missions
11. People and Payloads
12. The Golden Age
13. To Touch the Face of God
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