The Space Shuttle Handbook
A Flight-Guide to the World's First Spaceplane
Gatland, Kenneth - Hewish, Mark - Wright, Pearce
The book also contains information about the different configurations explored before selection the final shuttle design…
The launch of the Space Shuttle heralds a new era of commuting into space; and the Space Shuttle Handbook is the guide that explains it all.
Here, as this latest space saga unfolds, is the story behind the news. The Space Shuttle Handbook takes readers step by step through a typical launch and flight sequence from lift-off to the runway landing. It describes the details of the Shuttle's own history and development, and the political football that it became at the hands of a cost-conscious Congress and Administration. It also outlines the Shuttle's background from the grandiose dreams of the early rocket pioneers to the projected flights to space stations and orbiting space factories.
But what is one to make of the blizzard of facts and figures, and the usual welter of space Jargon? ALT, SRB, ET, NASA, geostationary what does it all mean? The Space Shuttle Handbook is a guide through this mass of detail. Clearly written and superbly illustrated, it can be referred to again and again.
Hardcover with dust jacket, large format
96 Seiten / pages
many illustrations
very good condition
London - New York - Sydney - Toronto - 1979 - The Hamlyn Publishing Group
Art.Nr. 21427
