Space Shuttle Columbia Her Missions and Crews /

• Main Author: Evans, Ben (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Praxis, 2005.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books in Space Exploration
• Subjects: Popular works.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy.; Automotive engineering.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Automotive Engineering.

On February 1st 2003, one of the worst and most public disasters ever witnessed in the human space programme unfolded with horrifying suddenness in the skies above north central Texas. The Space Shuttle Columbia – the world’s first truly reusable manned spacecraft – was lost during her return to Ear...

Table of Contents:

• “It will take a hundred flights ...”
• Columbia delivers
• Recovery after Challenger
• Extended capabilities
• Golden age
• A miniature space station
• Uncertain future
• “In my book, they always landed ...”.