The Space Shuttle An Experimental Flying Machine

Author : Ben Evans
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030707774

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The Space Shuttle: An Experimental Flying Machine by Ben Evans Pdf

This book explains how the achievements of the Space Shuttle, the world’s first reusable manned spacecraft, were built on the foundation of countless technical challenges. Through thick and thin, the Space Shuttle remained the centerpiece of the American human spaceflight program for three decades. In addition to deploying satellites, planetary probes and, of course, the Hubble Space Telescope, it delivered astronauts to the Mir space station and assembled and sustained the International Space Station. Yet the path to these incredible achievements was never an easy one, with some obstacles resulting in the loss of life and other major consequences that plagued the fleet throughout its operational career. The book adopts a challenge-by-challenge approach, focusing on specific difficulties and how (if at all) they were fully overcome. Going beyond the technical issues, it relates the human stories of each incident and how changes were effected in order to make the shuttle an exceptionally safer – though still experimental – flying machine.

Author : Davide Sivolella
Publisher : Springer
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319549460

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The Space Shuttle Program by Davide Sivolella Pdf

This book tells the story of the Space Shuttle in its many different roles as orbital launch platform, orbital workshop, and science and technology laboratory. It focuses on the technology designed and developed to support the missions of the Space Shuttle program. Each mission is examined, from both the technical and managerial viewpoints. Although outwardly identical, the capabilities of the orbiters in the late years of the program were quite different from those in 1981. Sivolella traces the various improvements and modifications made to the shuttle over the years as part of each mission story. Technically accurate but with a pleasing narrative style and simple explanations of complex engineering concepts, the book provides details of many lesser known concepts, some developed but never flown, and commemorates the ingenuity of NASA and its partners in making each Space Shuttle mission push the boundaries of what we can accomplish in space.Using press kits, original papers, newspaper and magazine articles, memoirs and interviews, this book provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of the shuttle’s many missions and will refocus interest on a remarkable flying machine and space program that is often pushed to the background.

Author : Ben Evans
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387739724

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Space Shuttle Columbia by Ben Evans Pdf

On February 1st 2003, one of the worst and most public disasters ever witnessed in the human space programme unfolded with horrifying suddenness in the skies above north central Texas. The Space Shuttle Columbia – the world’s first truly reusable manned spacecraft – was lost during her return to Earth, along with a crew of seven. It was an event that, after the loss of Space Shuttle Challenger during a launch 17 years before, the world had hoped it would never see again. This book details each of Columbia’s 28 missions in turn, as told by scientists and researchers who developed and supported her many payloads, by the engineers who worked on her and by the astronauts who flew her. In doing so, it is intended to provide a fitting tribute to this most remarkable flying machine and those who perished on her last mission.

Author : Rowland White
Publisher : Corgi
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Space flights
ISBN : 0552160229

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Into the Black by Rowland White Pdf

On 12th April 1981 a revolutionary new spacecraft blasted off from Florida on her maiden flight. NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia was the most advanced flying machine ever built -- the high watermark of post-war aviation development. Columbia was a winged rocket plane, the size of an airliner, capable of flying to space and back before being made ready to fly again. She was the world's first real spaceship. Yet less than an hour after Young and Crippen's spectacular departure from the Cape it was clear that all was not well. Tiles designed to protect Columbia from the blowtorch burn of re-entry were missing from the heatshield. If the damage to their ship was too great, the astronauts would be unable to return safely to Earth. But neither they nor mission control possessed any way of knowing. Instead, NASA turned to the National Reconnaissance Office, a spy agency hidden deep inside the Pentagon whose very existence was classified ... Drawing on brand new interviews with astronauts and engineers, archive material and newly declassified documents, Rowland White has pieced together the dramatic untold story of the mission for the first time.

Author : Davide Sivolella
Publisher : Springer
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1461409845

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To Orbit and Back Again by Davide Sivolella Pdf

The Space Shuttle has been the dominant machine in the U.S. space program for thirty years and has generated a great deal of interest among space enthusiasts and engineers. This book enables readers to understand its technical systems in greater depth than they have been able to do so before. The author describes the structures and systems of the Space Shuttle, and then follows a typical mission, explaining how the structures and systems were used in the launch, orbital operations and the return to Earth. Details of how anomalous events were dealt with on individual missions are also provided, as are the recollections of those who built and flew the Shuttle. Many photographs and technical drawings illustrate how the Space Shuttle functions, avoiding the use of complicated technical jargon. The book is divided into two sections: Part 1 describes each subsystem in a technical style, supported by diagrams, technical drawings, and photographs to enable a better understanding of the concepts. Part 2 examines different flight phases, from liftoff to landing. Technical material has been obtained from NASA as well as from other forums and specialists. Author Davide Sivolella is an aerospace engineer with a life-long interest in space and is ideally qualified to interpret technical manuals for a wider audience. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the topic including the evolution of given subsystems, reviewing the different configurations, and focusing on the solutions implemented.

Author : Susan Dudley Gold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0896866882

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To Space and Back by Susan Dudley Gold Pdf

Examines the history, uses, and accomplishments of the space shuttle program.

Author : Davide Sivolella
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031196539

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The Untold Stories of the Space Shuttle Program by Davide Sivolella Pdf

In September 1969, several months after the Apollo 11 lunar landing, President Richard M. Nixon established the Space Task Force to chart NASA’s path for the decades to come. This imaginative vision was shattered less than six months later when, on January 13, 1970, NASA Administrator Dr. Thomas Paine announced that, owing to funding cuts, only the reusable Space Shuttle could be afforded -- there would be no space station, no return to the Moon, and no missions to Mars. This is a story never before told about the missions and technologies that NASA had begun to plan but never fully realized. The book is a companion to the author’s previous two works on the Space Shuttle. Whereas the first two books showed how the Space Shuttle flew in space and what the program accomplished, this book explains what more the Space Shuttle could have achieved and how the space transportation system could have further matured if circumstances had been otherwise. A final chapter also discusses how some of these plans might be resurrected in future programs.

Author : Davide Sivolella
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781461409830

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To Orbit and Back Again by Davide Sivolella Pdf

The Space Shuttle has been the dominant machine in the U.S. space program for thirty years and has generated a great deal of interest among space enthusiasts and engineers. This book enables readers to understand its technical systems in greater depth than they have been able to do so before. The author describes the structures and systems of the Space Shuttle, and then follows a typical mission, explaining how the structures and systems were used in the launch, orbital operations and the return to Earth. Details of how anomalous events were dealt with on individual missions are also provided, as are the recollections of those who built and flew the Shuttle. Many photographs and technical drawings illustrate how the Space Shuttle functions, avoiding the use of complicated technical jargon. The book is divided into two sections: Part 1 describes each subsystem in a technical style, supported by diagrams, technical drawings, and photographs to enable a better understanding of the concepts. Part 2 examines different flight phases, from liftoff to landing. Technical material has been obtained from NASA as well as from other forums and specialists. Author Davide Sivolella is an aerospace engineer with a life-long interest in space and is ideally qualified to interpret technical manuals for a wider audience. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the topic including the evolution of given subsystems, reviewing the different configurations, and focusing on the solutions implemented.

Author : Piers Bizony
Publisher : Zenith Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781627886840

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The Space Shuttle by Piers Bizony Pdf

Get a full retrospective of all 134 flights, every mission, of the space shuttle program. This superbly designed and lavishly illustrated reissue of the best-selling hardcover book marks a special moment in history: the final mission of the space shuttle. Noted space and science author Piers Bizony's retrospective covers the entire space shuttle program that began in 1981 and ended in 2011. Every space shuttle mission is detailed, including all flights of the Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour spacecraft. The book also covers the development and design of the orbiter, as well as the technical specifications of the vehicle and details of its major assemblies and subassemblies. A full double-gatefold provides a large-scale technical drawing of the space shuttle. If you never got to watch the countdown clock in person during a space shuttle launch, The Space Shuttle is your chance to relive the history of America's first low Earth orbital spacecraft.

Author : Howard Allaway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Reusable space vehicles
ISBN : IND:30000044559494

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The Space Shuttle at Work by Howard Allaway Pdf

Author : D. M. Wylie
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781412038638

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Three Decades to a Space Shuttle by D. M. Wylie Pdf

Three Decades to a Space Shuttle is the story of the evolution of space flight beginning with "G" force experiments in 1947 at Edwards Air Force Base. Visionary concepts followed in 1951 and an evolutionary progression to space flight eventually led to the first shuttle flight in 1981, three decades later. The expertise of the American engineering and scientific community is examined which chronologically forged new technology. Columbia's first flight in 1981 was the culmination of a series of evolutionary steps, one at a time, over thirty years. The justifications of major budget allocations are shown and the resulting benefits to world populations are discussed. The space program and Government financing of private industry led to economical stability and brought our technical and scientific capability to a level not thought possible thirty years ago. Joint cooperation between American industry and government combined with foreign competition has enhanced world business and trade. A study of the past shows us what our possibilities can be in the future and what new frontiers we may experience.

Author : Robert D. Legler,Floyd V. Bennett
Publisher : www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1782662235

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Space Shuttle Missions Summary (NASA/TM-2011-216142) by Robert D. Legler,Floyd V. Bennett Pdf

Full color publication. This document has been produced and updated over a 21-year period. It is intended to be a handy reference document, basically one page per flight, and care has been exercised to make it as error-free as possible. This document is basically "as flown" data and has been compiled from many sources including flight logs, flight rules, flight anomaly logs, mod flight descent summary, post flight analysis of mps propellants, FDRD, FRD, SODB, and the MER shuttle flight data and inflight anomaly list. Orbit distance traveled is taken from the PAO mission statistics.

Author : Air & Space Magazine
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781588344878

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Space Shuttle 1981-2011 by Air & Space Magazine Pdf

Space Shuttle 1981-2011 is a lavishly illustrated special edition celebrating the space shuttle era. In thirty years of operation, space shuttles were used in 135 different missions; this volume presents the adventure stories of many of these missions in the astronauts’ own words. Additional contributions by space exploration writers cover the history of the program, technological challenges and triumphs, scientific achievements, and the devastating Challenger and Columbia tragedies. Complete with more than 40 essays and 100 full-color photographs, Space Shuttle 1981-2011 is a captivating overview of this critical part of space history. Although the space shuttle era has ended, its spirit—that of limitless curiosity and a desire for perfection—continues to inspire.

Author : Ben Evans
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387496795

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Space Shuttle Challenger by Ben Evans Pdf

This book details the stories of Challenger’s missions from the points of view of the astronauts, engineers, and scientists who flew and knew her and the managers, technicians, and ground personnel who designed her and nursed her from humble beginnings as a structural test article into one of the most capable Shuttles in NASA’s service. Challenger veterans, including Gordon Fullerton and Vance Brand, describe their experiences and the differences between Challenger and her sister ships. The development of Challenger herself is explored in detail, including her design, development, construction, and preparation for missions.

Author : David Baker
Publisher : Crown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0517538857

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Space Shuttle by David Baker Pdf