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Author : Heppenheimer Ta
Publisher : Smithsonian
ISBN 13 : 9781588340092
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)
Download or read book DEVM SPACE SHUTTLE written by Heppenheimer Ta and published by Smithsonian. This book was released on 2002-05-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Murray Leinster
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)
Download or read book The last space ship written by Murray Leinster and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The last space ship" by Murray Leinster. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Murray Leinster
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 1473227291
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Last Space Ship written by Murray Leinster and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Put yourself in the place of Kim Rendall, a handsome, idealistic young man living on a distant planet ruled by a super-efficient government. Here is industrialization carried to its illogical conclusion. Kim Rendall lives in the shadow of mechanized terror, for machines have taken over, and the disciplinary circuit keeps the inhabitants in check . . .
Author : Murray Leinster
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 080950006X
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Last Spaceship written by Murray Leinster and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kim Rendall will not yield to the tyranny of the power-madrulers of Alphin III. Branded an outlaw, he is in danger of psychological torture worse than death from the Disiplinary Circuit, which keeps the masses in check. His one hope lies in the Starshine, an outmoded spaceship. In a world where teleportation is the norm, no one travels by interstellar vessel anymore. Rendall plans to use the Starshine to save his girlfriend and himself -- and possibly his entire planet!
Author : Matthew H. Hersch
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262546728
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dark Star written by Matthew H. Hersch and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-12-26 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating history of NASA’s Space Transportation System—the space shuttle—chronicling the inevitable failures of a doomed design. In Dark Star, Matthew Hersch challenges the existing narrative of the most significant human space program of the last 50 years, NASA’s space shuttle. He begins with the origins of the space shuttle: a century-long effort to develop a low-cost, reusable, rocket-powered airplane to militarize and commercialize space travel, which Hersch explains was built the wrong way, at the wrong time, and for all the wrong reasons. Describing the unique circumstances that led to the space shuttle’s creation by President Richard Nixon’s administration in 1972 and its subsequent flights from 1981 through 2011, Hersch illustrates how the space shuttle was doomed from the start. While most historians have accepted the view that the space shuttle’s fatal accidents—including the 1986 Challenger explosion—resulted from deficiencies in NASA’s management culture that lulled engineers into a false confidence in the craft, Dark Star reveals the widespread understanding that the shuttle was predestined for failure as a technology demonstrator. The vehicle was intended only to give the United States the appearance of a viable human spaceflight program until funds became available to eliminate its obvious flaws. Hersch’s work seeks to answer the perilous questions of technological choice that confront every generation, and it is a critical read for anyone interested in how we can create a better world through the things we build.
Author : John Boyd
Publisher : Pan
ISBN 13 : 9780330231763
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Last Starship from Earth written by John Boyd and published by Pan. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margaret Lazarus Dean
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555973418
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)
Download or read book Leaving Orbit written by Margaret Lazarus Dean and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a breathtaking elegy to the waning days of human spaceflight as we have known it In the 1960s, humans took their first steps away from Earth, and for a time our possibilities in space seemed endless. But in a time of austerity and in the wake of high-profile disasters like Challenger, that dream has ended. In early 2011, Margaret Lazarus Dean traveled to Cape Canaveral for NASA's last three space shuttle launches in order to bear witness to the end of an era. With Dean as our guide to Florida's Space Coast and to the history of NASA, Leaving Orbit takes the measure of what American spaceflight has achieved while reckoning with its earlier witnesses, such as Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, and Oriana Fallaci. Along the way, Dean meets NASA workers, astronauts, and space fans, gathering possible answers to the question: What does it mean that a spacefaring nation won't be going to space anymore?
Author : J. Jack Bergeron
Publisher : J. Jack Bergeron
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Last Shuttle Flight, First Alien Contact (PARTS 1 to 3): Omnibus Edition written by J. Jack Bergeron and published by J. Jack Bergeron. This book was released on with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think NASA's last shuttle flight was the end of American technological space dominance?July 21, 2011 might have been the final date of the Atlantis shuttle flight, but it sure wasn't the end of amazing discoveries. In PART 1 of this fictionalized series of that flight, the crew comes into first contact with alien extraterrestrials who discover the Atlantis space shuttle as they are finishing their last few orbits around Earth. If earthlings are stunned at this UFO sighting, the aliens are even more stunned. . . Part 2. Expectations go beyond anyone's dreams as the reality of faster than light travel is introduced to humans. However, the reality of extraterrestrial contact it not what they expected. Part 3 of 'Last Shuttle Flight, First Alien Contact' demonstrates the different mindsets of both humans and aliens in this space exploration adventure of a first contact UFO sighting. Being aware of each other has altered the thinking of both. This sequel of a extraterrestrial contact series demonstrates how these two species begin to deal with each other and what their expectations for the future hold. The big question is, will the Earth survive a second alien expedition. . . To solve these mysteries, order a copy of Last Shuttle Flight, First Alien Contact today. This Omnibus Edition collects the three parts of this story into a single book. (note: all people in this novel are fictionalized characters who have no relationship or bearing with anyone in the space program past or present.).
Author : Rick Houston
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496209826
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Download or read book Wheels Stop written by Rick Houston and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity's first reusable spacecraft and the most complex machine ever built, NASA's Space Shuttle debuted with great promise and as a dependable source of wonder and national pride. But with the Challenger catastrophe in 1986, the whole Space Shuttle program came into question, as did NASA itself, so long an institution that was seemingly above reproach. Wheels Stop tells the stirring story of how, after the Challenger disaster, the Space Shuttle not only recovered but went on to perform its greatest missions. From the Return to Flight mission of STS-26 in 1988 to the last shuttle mission ever on STS-135 in 2011, Wheels Stop takes readers behind the scenes as the shuttle's crews begin to mend Cold War tensions with the former Soviet Union, conduct vital research, deploy satellites, repair the Hubble Space Telescope, and assist in constructing the International Space Station. It also tells the heart-wrenching story of the Columbia tragedy and the loss of the magnificent STS-107 crew. As complex as the shuttle was, the people it carried into orbit were often more so--and this is their story, too. Close encounters with astronauts, flight controllers, and shuttle workers capture the human side of the Space Shuttle's amazing journey--and invite readers along for the ride. Browse more spaceflight books atupinspace.org. Purchase the audio edition.
Author : Michael D. Leinbach
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628728523
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bringing Columbia Home written by Michael D. Leinbach and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
