Untold Stories of the Space Shuttle Program

Untold Stories of the Space Shuttle Program

Unfulfilled Dreams and Missions that Never Flew

Sivolella, Davide

Springer International Publishing AG

11/2022

343

Mole

Inglês

9783031196522

15 a 20 dias

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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?.

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unflown NASA missions;unrealized NASA technology;commercial space facility;external tank scavenge system;flyback booster;Freedom space station;Industrial Space Facility;ISF;Shuttle-C;Skylab rescue;SCAFEDS;SCEDS;SOC;National AeroSpace Plane;NASP;Orbital Space Plane;OSP