The untold stories of the Space Shuttle Program : unfulfilled dreams and missions that never flew / Davide Sivolella.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sivolella, Davide, 1981- author.

Series:

Springer-Praxis books in space exploration 2731-541X

Springer-Praxis books in space exploration, 2731-541X

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space Shuttle Program (U.S.)--History.

Space Shuttle Program (U.S.).

Space shuttles--United States--History.

Space shuttles.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 343 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer ; Chichester, UK : Praxis Publishing, [2022]

Summary:

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. .

Contents:

Chapter 1: Space Shuttle 101

Chapter 2: Making the most of the External Tank

Chapter 3: Boosting the boosters

Chapter 4: Improving performance

Chapter 5: Outposts for the development of space

Chapter 6: Orbital hopping

Chapter 7: Unflown satellite servicing capabilities

Chapter 8: In-space assembly: a potential not fully exploited

Chapter 9: Factories in space

Chapter 10: The unfulfilled potential of the External Tank

Chapter 11: Space Shuttle freighter

Chapter 12: The quest for a worthy successor

Chapter 13: An impossible schedule

Chapter 14: Space Shuttle and Skylab: a missed opportunity

Chapter 15: Unflown science

Chapter 16: Space Shuttle in Uniform: A lost collaboration

Chapter 17: Too high a dream?.

Notes:

Includes index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 8, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Sivolella, Davide The Untold Stories of the Space Shuttle Program

ISBN:

9783031196539

3031196538

OCLC:

1353790148

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.