Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Wings in orbit: scientific and engineering legacies of the space shuttle, paperback/wayne hale

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This publication Authoritatively documents the many accomplishments of NASA's Space Shuttle Program from its origins to the present.

Beginning with a Foreword by astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen, this compelling book provides clear, accurate, and authentic accounts from NASA's best subject matter experts, including aerospace engineers who worked with the shuttle program, and leading experts from the science and academic communities.

The book captures the passion of those who devoted their energies to the program's success for more than three decades.

It focuses on their science and engineering accomplishments, the rich history of the program, and the shuttle as an icon in U.

history.

Its comprehensive overview of the shuttle and its accomplishments, combined with its lucid prose, makes Wings in Orbit a unique resource for anyone interested in the history and achievements of American space exploration.

The first great age of space exploration culminated with the historic lunar landing in July 1969.

Following that achievement, the space policymakers looked back to the history of aviation as a model for the future of space travel.

The Space Shuttle was conceived as a way to exploit the resources of the new frontier.

Using an aviation analogy, the shuttle would be the Douglas DC-3 of space.

That aircraft is generally considered to be the first commercially successful air transport.

The shuttle was to be the first commercially successful space transport.

This impossible leap was not realized, an unrealistic goal that appears patently obvious in retrospect, yet it haunts the history of the shuttle to this day.

Much of the criticism of the shuttle originates from this overhyped initial concept.

In fact, the perceived relationship between the history of aviation and the promise of space travel continues to motivate space policymakers.

In some ways, the analogy that compares space with aviation can be very illustrative.

If the first crewed spacecraft of 1961 are.