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The untold stories of the Space Shuttle Program : unfulfilled dreams and missions that never flew / Davide Sivolella.

9783031196539 (electronic bk.)
3031196538 (electronic bk.)
9783031196522
303119652X

Cham : Springer ; Chichester, UK : Praxis Publishing, [2022]

©2022

English

1 online resource (xiii, 343 pages) : illustrations (some color).

10.1007/978-3-031-19653-9 doi

TL789.8.U6

629.44/10973

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. .

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