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Books on NASA
Project Mercury: NASA’s 1st Manned Space Programme (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)
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NASA
A developmental history of the 1st American manned spaceflight programme and its associated infrastructure, such as accounts of space launch vehicles. The book highlights the differences in Redstone/Atlas technologies, drawing equivalent comparisons in between ballistic capsules and option kinds of spacecraft. The book also covers astronaut selection and coaching, as properly as tracking systems, flight manage, simple principles of spaceflight and comprehensive accounts of person flights.
Project Mercury: NASA’s Very first Manned Space Programme (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)
The Space Shuttle Choice
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NASA
Heppenheimer looks back at the shuttle’s technical antecedents such as the X-15 rocket plane and rocket booster technologies, and illuminates the principal personalities involved in the space shuttle decision and their motivations. He traces NASA’s evolving plan targets, the technical calculations, political maneuvering, and fiscal constraints, and explains the myriad designs that preceded the shuttle concept. In closing, he looks in detail at the circumstances top to the politically charge
The Space Shuttle Selection
