Melvin Croft, John Youskauskas

Come Fly with Us

NASA's Payload Specialist Program

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Produktbeschreibung

Focuses on the early selection, training, and spaceflight experiences of a new class of astronaut known as “payload specialists.”

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Produktdetails

• Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 454
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 674g
• ISBN-13: 9781496238627
• ISBN-10: 1496238621
• Artikelnr.: 68582590

Autorenporträt

Melvin Croft has more than forty years of experience as a geologist and is a longtime supporter of the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation. John Youskauskas is a professional pilot with more than thirty years of aviation experience in flight operations, aviation safety, and maintenance. Both authors contributed to Footprints in the Dust: The Epic Voyages of Apollo, 1969–1975 (Nebraska, 2010). Don Thomas is a former NASA mission specialist and the author of Orbit of Discovery: The All-Ohio Space Shuttle Mission.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Genesis of the Payload Specialist
2. Integrating the Payload Specialists
3. Spacelab, a New Era in Spaceflight
4. Mission to Planet Earth
5. Time to Specialize
6. The Supermission
7. Europe’s Coming Out Party
8. Supersonic in a Paper Airplane
9. The Highest Ground
10. Space Walker
11. First Passenger
12. International Goodwill
13. The Spaceman from Chilpancingo
14. On the Way to Disney World
15. Walking through Fire
Epilogue
Appendix: Summary of Missions Carrying Payload Specialists, 1983–86
Sources
Index