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Author | : Michael D. Leinbach |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2018-01-23 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1628728523 |
Voted the Best Space Book of 2018 by the Space Hipsters The dramatic inside story of the epic search and recovery operation after the Columbia space shuttle disaster. On February 1, 2003, Columbia disintegrated on reentry before the nation’s eyes, and all seven astronauts aboard were lost. Author Mike Leinbach, Launch Director of the space shuttle program at NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center was a key leader in the search and recovery effort as NASA, FEMA, the FBI, the US Forest Service, and dozens more federal, state, and local agencies combed an area of rural east Texas the size of Rhode Island for every piece of the shuttle and her crew they could find. Assisted by hundreds of volunteers, it would become the largest ground search operation in US history. This comprehensive account is told in four parts: Parallel Confusion Courage, Compassion, and Commitment Picking Up the Pieces A Bittersweet Victory For the first time, here is the definitive inside story of the Columbia disaster and recovery and the inspiring message it ultimately holds. In the aftermath of tragedy, people and communities came together to help bring home the remains of the crew and nearly 40 percent of shuttle, an effort that was instrumental in piecing together what happened so the shuttle program could return to flight and complete the International Space Station. Bringing Columbia Home shares the deeply personal stories that emerged as NASA employees looked for lost colleagues and searchers overcame immense physical, logistical, and emotional challenges and worked together to accomplish the impossible. Featuring a foreword and epilogue by astronauts Robert Crippen and Eileen Collins, and dedicated to the astronauts and recovery search persons who lost their lives, this is an incredible, compelling narrative about the best of humanity in the darkest of times and about how a failure at the pinnacle of human achievement became a story of cooperation and hope.
Author | : Paul Dye |
Publisher | : Hachette Books |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2020-07-14 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0316454540 |
From the longest-serving Flight Director in NASA's history comes a revealing account of high-stakes Mission Control work and the Space Shuttle program that has redefined our relationship with the universe. A compelling look inside the Space Shuttle missions that helped lay the groundwork for the Space Age, Shuttle, Houston explores the determined personalities, technological miracles, and eleventh-hour saves that have given us human spaceflight. Relaying stories of missions (and their grueling training) in vivid detail, Paul Dye, NASA's longest-serving Flight Director, examines the split-second decisions that the directors and astronauts were forced to make in a field where mistakes are unthinkable, and where errors led to the loss of national resources -- and more importantly one's crew. Dye's stories from the heart of Mission Control explain the mysteries of flying the Shuttle -- from the powerful fiery ascent to the majesty of on-orbit operations to the high-speed and critical re-entry and landing of a hundred-ton glider. The Space Shuttles flew 135 missions. Astronauts conducted space walks, captured satellites, and docked with the Mir Space Station, bringing space into our everyday life, from GPS to satellite TV. Shuttle, Houston puts readers in his own seat at Mission Control, the hub that made humanity's leap into a new frontier possible.
Author | : Ben Evans |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 631 |
Release | : 2012-06-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1461434300 |
April 12, 2011 is the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering journey into space. To commemorate this momentous achievement, Springer-Praxis is producing a mini series of books that reveals how humanity’s knowledge of flying, working, and living in space has grown in the last half century. “Tragedy and Triumph” focuses on the 1980s and early 1990s, a time when relations between the United States and the Soviet Union swung like a pendulum between harmony and outright hostility. The glorious achievements of the shuttle were violently arrested by the devastating loss of Challenger in 1986, while the Soviet program appeared to prosper with the last Salyut and the next-generation Mir orbital station. This book explores the continued rivalry between the two superpowers during this period, with each attempting to outdo the other – the Americans keen to build a space station, the Soviets keen to build a space shuttle – and places their efforts in the context of a bitterly divisive decade, which ultimately led them into partnership.
Author | : David L. Pritchard |
Publisher | : FriesenPress |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2017-03-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1525504886 |
John and Janet Marshall are covert operatives on a mission to meet a strange alien race from a distant galaxy. When they arrive, they find themselves between two warring armadas bent on war. Their infant son, born in space, is killed in the battle, and the Marshall’s are forced to re-evaluate their plans. As they contemplate a future without their son, a being appears who offers a key to achieving galactic peace. The being, claiming to be a conduit to a supreme being, provides gifts for humanity that will change our destiny forever. From the futuristic recdomes of Canada’s remaining wilderness preserves to the complexities of interstellar diplomacy, this sprawling science fiction epic looks to the future to help understand our present.
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Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
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Total Pages | : 634 |
Release | : 1982-05 |
Genre | : Shock (Mechanics) |
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Author | : James P. Travers |
Publisher | : Archway Publishing |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 2017-01-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1480841943 |
In America, nothing is what it seems. Zachary Gunman is the newly elected President of the United States, and hes prepared to do just about anything to stop the terror abroad and at home. The normal news of the day reveals more instability in the Middle East and American soldiers trying to squash uprisings in order to stabilize the region. Dr. H is a wealthy communications businessman with contracts in Russia, China, and America. He thinks of himself as a humanitarian, striving to make the world a better placeand he believes Gunman might be able to help. However, both mens plans are thrown to the wayside as a massive nuclear attack riddles DC and beyond.
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Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
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Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.
Author | : Jon Schiller |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0977430537 |
The US Space Shuttle delivering supplies to the US Space Station has a mechanical breakdown that prevents its return to the Earth. The remaining two US Space Shuttles are launched as quickly as possible to carry the needed supplies to the Space Station before the people there run out of expendables: air, water, etc. Both aging Shuttles suffer breakdowns - one explodes on the launch pad and the other has a breakdown in orbit near the Space Station. This second Shuttle is close enough to the Space Station to be secured by a cable and then winched up to the Space Station docking gate. The hero, Dr. Donald Richards, devises two options for rescuing the stranded astronauts: use the new European Space Station Shuttle or use the Soviet Space Shuttle. The US President over-rules NASA's recommendation to use the Soviet Space Shuttle for the rescue, so Richards negotiates an agreement with the European Space Agency to use their Shuttle to rescue the astronauts.
Author | : Steven Squyres |
Publisher | : Hachette Books |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2005-08-03 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 140138191X |
Steve Squyres is the face and voice of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. Squyres dreamed up the mission in 1987, saw it through from conception in 1995 to a successful landing in 2004, and serves as the principal scientist of its $400 million payload. He has gained a rare inside look at what it took for rovers Spirit and Opportunity to land on the red planet in January 2004--and knows firsthand their findings.