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  title info:
    title: Space Shuttle Challenger
    sub title: Ten Journeys into the Unknown
  name:
    name part: Evans, Ben.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 290 p. 60 illus. online resource.
  abstract: Ironically, the loss of Challenger in January 1986 fired my interest in space exploration more than any other single event. I was nine years old. My parents were, at the time, midway through moving house and, luckily, the TV was one of the few domestic items still to be packed. I watched the entire horror unfold live on all of the network stations. Admittedly, my fascination with rockets and astronauts, stars and planets had begun several years earlier, but Challenger's destruction turned it from an occasional hobby to a fascination which has remained with me ever since. In September 1988, aged 11,1 came home from school to watch STS-26 return the Shuttle fleet to orbital operations. Five years later, I gave a speech on the STS-51L disaster to my teacher as part of my GCSE English assessment. Another decade passed and, now a teacher myself, I returned to my school one cold Monday morning to explain to my pupils what had happened to Challenger's sister ship, Columbia, a few days earlier. In some ways, the loss of Columbia affected me more deeply than Challenger.
  table of contents: Author's preface -- Acknowledgements -- The Geritol Bunch: The Development of the Shuttle, History of Challenger's Design, and Her First Mission -- Ride, Sally Ride: The Flight of STS 7 -- Weightlifters: the Flight of STS 8 -- A Heck of a Big Leap: the Flights of STS 41B, 41C, and 41G -- The Untouchables: the Flights of STS 51B, 51F, and 61A -- Don't Break our Airplane: the Disaster and Aftermath, including Rogers inquiry -- Appendix: Challenger's Planned Missions during 1986 and 1987 -- Glossary of Acronyms -- Bibliography -- Index.
  note: by Ben Evans.
  subject:
    topic: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Observations, Astronomical
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
    topic: Observations
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Automotive engineering
  subject:
    topic: Aerospace engineering
  subject:
    topic: Astronautics
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
  subject:
    topic: Automotive Engineering
  classification: QB1-991
  classification: 520
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Springer Praxis Books
  identifier: 9780387496795
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-49679-5
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204154948.0
    record identifier: 978-0-387-49679-5