Mission Control: Inventing the Groundwork of Spaceflight - Tapa dura

Johnson, Michael Peter

 
9780813061504: Mission Control: Inventing the Groundwork of Spaceflight
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ISBN 10: 0813061504 ISBN 13: 9780813061504
Editorial: University Press of Florida, 2015

Sinopsis

Brave astronauts, flaring rockets, and majestic launches are only one side of the story of spaceflight. Any mission to space depends on years―if not decades―of work by thousands of dedicated individuals on the ground. These are the people whose voices offer a friendly link to Earth in the void of space, whose hands maneuver rovers across the face of planets, and whose skills guide astronauts home. This book is a long-overdue history of three major centers that have managed important missions since the dawn of the space age.

In Mission Control, Michael Johnson explores the famous Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, and the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany―each a strategically designedmicro-environment responsible for the operation of spacecraft and the safety of passengers.

Johnson explains the motivations behind the location of each center and their intricate design. He shows how the robotic spaceflight missions overseen in Pasadena and Darmstadt set these centers apart from Houston. He argues that the type of spacecraft and the missions they controlled―not the nations they represented―defined how the centers developed, yet they played vital national roles as space technology became a battleground for international power struggles in the Cold War years and even after.

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Michael Peter Johnson is former director of the Skylab Oral History Project.

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Editorial
University Press of Florida
Año de publicación
2015
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0813061504
ISBN 13 
9780813061504
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
208
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