Space Shuttle : The Machine That Had to Come Back

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Neuware - What if the hardest part of reaching space was not getting there, but building a machine capable of coming home and doing it again By the end of the Apollo era, America had accomplished what once seemed impossible. Astronauts had walked on the Moon, and the mighty Saturn V had demonstrated the staggering power required to send humans beyond Earth.But there was a problem.Much of the enormously expensive machinery that made those journeys possible was used once and discarded.NASA wanted something radically different.THE SPACE SHUTTLE: THE MACHINE THAT HAD TO COME BACK tells the remarkable inside story of the attempt to transform spaceflight from a succession of largely expendable missions into something reusable.The ambition sounded almost impossible: build a winged spacecraft that could withstand a violent rocket launch, accelerate beyond 17,000 miles per hour, operate in orbit, survive the extreme heat of atmospheric reentry, glide toward a runway without conventional aircraft engines, land safely, and eventually fly again.But how do you actually build such a machine And what happens when engineering ambition collides with political compromise, limited budgets, unforgiving physics, and the enormous cost of getting it wrong Follow the story from NASA's early reusable spacecraft concepts and President Richard Nixon's 1972 approval through the factories where Enterprise and Columbia took shape. Discover why thousands of fragile heat-resistant components became essential to survival, how reusable engines and recoverable boosters changed the launch equation, and why the enormous external tank was deliberately sacrificed on every flight.Then enter the cockpit of STS-1 as John Young and Robert Crippen attempt something the complete Shuttle system had never done before.The story does not end with that first successful landing.Across 30 years and 135 missions, the Shuttle deployed satellites, carried scientific laboratories, helped rescue the Hubble Space Telescope's promise, and became essential to building the International Space Station. It also suffered the devastating losses of Challenger and Columbia, forcing NASA to confront uncomfortable questions about engineering warnings, accepted risk, organizational decisions, cost, and the dangerous illusion of routine spaceflight.Written for space enthusiasts, engineering readers, aviation fans, history lovers, and anyone fascinated by how extraordinary machines are actually created, this book looks beyond the famous launches to reveal the decisions, people, money, failures, compromises, and technical problems behind them.The Space Shuttle proved that reusable orbital flight was possible.What it could never prove was that reuse would automatically make spaceflight simple.Read the full story and discover what it really took to build the machine that had to come back.…

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Título
Space Shuttle : The Machine That Had to Come Back
Autor
Alex R Bright
Editorial
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Sep 2026
Año de publicación
2026
Estado
Neu
Encuadernación
Taschenbuch
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 13
9798172626302
Peso del artículo
154 gramos
Dimensiones
229x152x6 mm
Serie
Libro 55 de 59: DISCOVER SOMETHING NEW EVERYDAY

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