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.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

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.

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

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

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

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

Publisher Number:

99992597922

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.