Rick Houston

Wheels Stop

The Tragedies and Triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986-2011

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Produktbeschreibung

The human story of the Space Shuttle program from the aftermath of the Challenger accident and ending with the final flight in 2011.

Produktdetails

• Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 155mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 710g
• ISBN-13: 9781496224941
• ISBN-10: 1496224949
• Artikelnr.: 60599399

Autorenporträt

Rick Houston, a full-time journalist for nearly thirty years, has written or contributed to eleven books. He is the coauthor of Go, Flight! The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965–1992 (Nebraska, 2015) and consultant and associate editor of the documentary film Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo. Jerry Ross, a former astronaut, shares the world record for the most spaceflights flown, with seven to his credit. He is the author of Spacewalker.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Back in the Game
2. Cloak and Dagger, Science on Orbit
3. Hubble Huggers
4. Sleeping with the Enemy
5. A Home on Orbit
6. "The Debris Was Talking to Me"
7. "We Came Home"
8. A Kick in the Pants
9. The End of an Era
10. A Magnificent Machine
Epilogue
Sources
Index