Wheels Stop : The Tragedies and Triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986-2011.

By: Houston, RickContributor(s): Ross, JerryMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of SpaceflightPublisher: Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (456 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780803248939Subject(s): Space Shuttle Program (U.S.) -- History | Space shuttles -- United States -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Wheels Stop : The Tragedies and Triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986-2011DDC classification: 629.44/10973 LOC classification: TL789.8.U6 -- S6646 2013ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Back in the Game -- 2. Cloak and Dagger, Science on Orbit -- 3. Hubble Huggers -- 4. Sleeping with the Enemy -- 5. A Home on Orbit -- 6."The Debris Was Talking to Me" -- 7. "We Came Home" -- 8. A Kick in the Pants -- 9. The End of an Era -- 10. A Magnificent Machine -- Epilogue -- Sources -- Index.
Summary: "Rick Houston skillfully recounts the shuttle program from a front row center seat, full of engaging, first person accounts-direct from the flight deck and the vacuum of space during some of the program's wildest spacewalks. From triumph to tragedy and back again, this book is the next best thing to being there."-Dr. Scott Parazynski, five-time shuttle astronaut and Everest mountaineer.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Back in the Game -- 2. Cloak and Dagger, Science on Orbit -- 3. Hubble Huggers -- 4. Sleeping with the Enemy -- 5. A Home on Orbit -- 6."The Debris Was Talking to Me" -- 7. "We Came Home" -- 8. A Kick in the Pants -- 9. The End of an Era -- 10. A Magnificent Machine -- Epilogue -- Sources -- Index.

"Rick Houston skillfully recounts the shuttle program from a front row center seat, full of engaging, first person accounts-direct from the flight deck and the vacuum of space during some of the program's wildest spacewalks. From triumph to tragedy and back again, this book is the next best thing to being there."-Dr. Scott Parazynski, five-time shuttle astronaut and Everest mountaineer.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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