03008nam 2200529 450 991048430090332120220120155826.03-030-70777-610.1007/978-3-030-70777-4(CKB)4100000011918909(DE-He213)978-3-030-70777-4(MiAaPQ)EBC6611793(Au-PeEL)EBL6611793(OCoLC)1252425868(PPN)255881649(EXLCZ)99410000001191890920220120d2021 uy 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Space shuttle an experiment flying machine : thirty years of challenges /Ben Evans1st ed. 2021.Cham, Switzerland :Springer,[2021]©20211 online resource (XI, 291 p. 102 illus., 99 illus. in color.) Space Exploration3-030-70776-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: A Butterfly and a Bullet -- Chapter 2: On the Ground -- Chapter 3: Blowing the Bolts -- Chapter 4: Riding the Main Engines -- Chapter 5: Big, Dumb Boosters -- Chapter 6: The External Tank -- Chapter 7: The Shuttle's Fragile Skin -- Chapter 8: The Short and the Long -- Chapter 9: Unexpected Failures -- Chapter 10: Sickness and Space Suits -- Chapter 11: Where to Land -- Index. .This book explains how the achievements of the Space Shuttle, the world’s first reusable manned spacecraft, were built on the foundation of countless technical challenges. Through thick and thin, the Space Shuttle remained the centerpiece of the American human spaceflight program for three decades. In addition to deploying satellites, planetary probes and, of course, the Hubble Space Telescope, it delivered astronauts to the Mir space station and assembled and sustained the International Space Station. Yet the path to these incredible achievements was never an easy one, with some obstacles resulting in the loss of life and other major consequences that plagued the fleet throughout its operational career. The book adopts a challenge-by-challenge approach, focusing on specific difficulties and how (if at all) they were fully overcome. Going beyond the technical issues, it relates the human stories of each incident and how changes were effected in order to make the shuttle an exceptionally safer – though still experimental – flying machine.Space ExplorationAstronauticsSpace shipsUnited StatesAstronautics.Space ships.629.441Evans Ben1976-1075020MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910484300903321The Space shuttle2583176UNINA