Wheels stop : the tragedies and triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986-2011 / / Rick Houston ; foreword by Jerry Ross
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Houston Rick <1967->
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| Titolo: |
Wheels stop : the tragedies and triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986-2011 / / Rick Houston ; foreword by Jerry Ross
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| Pubblicazione: | Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2013] |
| ©2013 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (456 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 629.44/10973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Space shuttles - United States - History |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Back in the Game -- Cloak and Dagger, Science on Orbit -- Hubble Huggers -- Sleeping with the Enemy -- A Home on Orbit -- "The Debris was Talking to Me" -- We Came Home -- A Kick in the Pants -- The End of an Era -- A Magnificent Machine -- Epilogue. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | <P>"Rick Houston skillfully recounts the shuttle program from a front row center seat, full of engaging, first person accounts-direct from the flight deck and the vacuum of space during some of the program's wildest spacewalks. From triumph to tragedy and back again, this book is the next best thing to being there."-Dr. Scott Parazynski, five-time shuttle astronaut and Everest mountaineer<DIV></DIV> |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Wheels stop |
| ISBN: | 0-8032-4893-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910790655503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Outward odyssey.