LEADER 03006nam 2200529 450 001 996466732903316 005 20220120155826.0 010 $a3-030-70777-6 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-70777-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000011918909 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-70777-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6611793 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6611793 035 $a(OCoLC)1252425868 035 $a(PPN)255881649 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011918909 100 $a20220120d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Space shuttle $ean experiment flying machine : thirty years of challenges /$fBen Evans 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cSpringer,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (XI, 291 p. 102 illus., 99 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aSpace Exploration 311 $a3-030-70776-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aList 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. . 330 $aThis book explains how the achievements of the Space Shuttle, the world?s first reusable manned spacecraft, were built on the foundation of countless technical challenges. Through thick and thin, the Space Shuttle remained the centerpiece of the American human spaceflight program for three decades. In addition to deploying satellites, planetary probes and, of course, the Hubble Space Telescope, it delivered astronauts to the Mir space station and assembled and sustained the International Space Station. Yet the path to these incredible achievements was never an easy one, with some obstacles resulting in the loss of life and other major consequences that plagued the fleet throughout its operational career. The book adopts a challenge-by-challenge approach, focusing on specific difficulties and how (if at all) they were fully overcome. Going beyond the technical issues, it relates the human stories of each incident and how changes were effected in order to make the shuttle an exceptionally safer ? though still experimental ? flying machine. 410 0$aSpace Exploration 606 $aAstronautics 606 $aSpace ships 607 $aUnited States 615 0$aAstronautics. 615 0$aSpace ships. 676 $a629.441 700 $aEvans$b Ben$f1976-$01075020 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996466732903316 996 $aThe Space shuttle$92583176 997 $aUNISA