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Wheels stop : the tragedies and triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986-2011 / Rick Houston ; foreword by Jerry Ross.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Houston, Rick, 1967-
- Series:
- Outward odyssey.
- Outward odyssey : a people's history of spaceflight
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Space shuttles--United States--History.
- Space shuttles.
- Space Shuttle Program (U.S.)--History.
- Space Shuttle Program (U.S.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (456 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <P>"Rick Houston skillfully recounts the shuttle program from a front row center seat, full of engaging, first person accounts-direct from the flight deck and the vacuum of space during some of the program's wildest spacewalks. From triumph to tragedy and back again, this book is the next best thing to being there."-Dr. Scott Parazynski, five-time shuttle astronaut and Everest mountaineer<DIV></DIV>
- Contents:
- Back in the Game
- Cloak and Dagger, Science on Orbit
- Hubble Huggers
- Sleeping with the Enemy
- A Home on Orbit
- "The Debris was Talking to Me"
- We Came Home
- A Kick in the Pants
- The End of an Era
- A Magnificent Machine
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8032-4893-8
- OCLC:
- 861081512
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