Come fly with us : NASA's Payload Specialist Program /

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Come Fly with Us is the story of an elite group of space travelers who flew as members of many space shuttle crews from pre-Challenger days to Columbia in 2003. Not part of the regular NASA astronaut corps, these professionals known as "payload specialists" came from a wide variety of back...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Croft, Melvin (Autor), Youskauskas, John (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
Colección:Outward odyssey.
Temas:
United States. > National Aeronautics and Space Administration. > Payload Specialist Program > History.
Payloads (Aerospace engineering) > United States > History.
Charge utile (Aérospatiale) > États-Unis > Histoire.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Engineering (General)
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Payloads (Aerospace engineering)
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The genesis of the payload specialist
  • Integrating the payload specialists
  • Spacelab, a new era in spaceflight
  • Mission to planet Earth
  • Time to specialize
  • The super mission
  • Europe's coming out party
  • Supersonic in a paper airplane
  • The highest ground
  • Space walker
  • First passenger
  • International goodwill
  • The spaceman from Chilpancingo
  • On the way to Disney World
  • Walking through fire.

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