The untold stories of the Space Shuttle Program : unfulfilled dreams and missions that never flew / Davide Sivolella.
Sivolella, Davide, 1981- author.
2022
TL789.8.U6
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Title The untold stories of the Space Shuttle Program : unfulfilled dreams and missions that never flew / Davide Sivolella.
Author Sivolella, Davide, 1981- author.
ISBN 9783031196539 (electronic bk.)
3031196538 (electronic bk.)
9783031196522
303119652X
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19653-9
Published Cham : Springer ; Chichester, UK : Praxis Publishing, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 343 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-19653-9 doi
Call Number TL789.8.U6
Dewey Decimal Classification 629.44/10973
Summary In September 1969, several months after the Apollo 11 lunar landing, President Richard M. Nixon established the Space Task Force to chart NASA's path for the decades to come. This imaginative vision was shattered less than six months later when, on January 13, 1970, NASA Administrator Dr. Thomas Paine announced that, owing to funding cuts, only the reusable Space Shuttle could be afforded -- there would be no space station, no return to the Moon, and no missions to Mars. This is a story never before told about the missions and technologies that NASA had begun to plan but never fully realized. The book is a companion to the author's previous two works on the Space Shuttle. Whereas the first two books showed how the Space Shuttle flew in space and what the program accomplished, this book explains what more the Space Shuttle could have achieved and how the space transportation system could have further matured if circumstances had been otherwise. A final chapter also discusses how some of these plans might be resurrected in future programs. .
Note Includes index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 8, 2022).
Series Springer-Praxis books in space exploration. 2731-541X
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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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