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 howsome of these plans might be resurrected in future programs.| ISBN: | 9783031196522 |
| Publication date: | 28th November 2022 |
| Author: | Davide Sivolella |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer International Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 343 pages |
| Series: | Springer Praxis Books |
| Genres: |
Astronomy, space and time Solar system: the Sun and planets Applied physics History of engineering and technology |
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 howsome of these plans might be resurrected in future programs.The Untold Stories of the Space Shuttle Program Space Exploration features in the following genres: Astronomy, space and time, Solar system: the Sun and planets, Applied physics, History of engineering and technology
The Untold Stories of the Space Shuttle Program Space Exploration is available in Paperback
The Untold Stories of the Space Shuttle Program Space Exploration was written by Davide Sivolella and published by Springer an imprint of Springer International Publishing
The Untold Stories of the Space Shuttle Program Space Exploration has 343 pages
Yes it is part of Springer Praxis Books series
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