Into the Black
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (833 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01CR66MPG |
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| Number of Pages | : | 390 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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But neither they nor mission control possessed any way of knowing. 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. Instead, NASA turned to the National Reconnaissance Office, a spy agency hidden deep inside the Pentagon whose very existence was classified. The Shuttle's Commander, moonwalker John Young, was already a veteran of five spaceflights. Alongside him, Pilot Bob Crippen was making his first, but Crip, taken in by the space agency after the cancellation of a top secret military space station programme in 1969, had worked on the Shuttle's development for a decade. A direct descendant of the record-breaking X-planes the likes of which Chuck Yeager had tested in the skies over the Mojave Desert, 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. With a foreword by Astronaut Richard Truly. On 12th April 1981 a revolutionary new spacecraft blasted off from Florida on her maiden flight. Into the Black is a thrilling race against time; a gripping high stakes cold-war story, and a celebration of a beyond th
A Must Have History for every Cold War - Space Enthusiast! Robert Carver Excellent history about how the Space Transportation System (Shuttle) was created as a follow-up to the Apollo Program. This isn't a technical history but White provides plenty of pertinent details on the challenges faced in building a reusable shuttle under tight budget constraints. White also digs deeper into the connection between the Air Force and the Shuttle Program in the area of design and with the astronauts who migrated from the canceled Manned Orbiting Laboratory over to NASA. These men helped design, test and fly the shuttle through its early years. Whit. New take on well known space stories. We aerospace enthusiasts have all read most of the details of the Space Shuttle. This book goes beyond. The author has used a number of recently declassified documents to portray the true story of how the Shuttle program actually went from idealistic dreaming, to reality, to production, and then to actual flight.I enjoyed the whole thing. The authors portrayal of the astronauts involved is fascinating.. A must read for any aerospace fan Jodie Swafford This is one great book. It's a history book with tons of adventure woven in. You get a real sense for the test pilots turned astronauts and the colossal achievement building and flying the space shuttle was. From her bleeding edge main engines to airplane spaceships for the 1930s, this is a marvelous piece of romanticism with something for all dreamers.