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Before Lift-Off: The Making of a Space Shuttle Crew by Cooper: Used
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 1987-09-01
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN
- 9780801835247
- Book Title
- Before Lift-Off : the Making of a Space Shuttle Crew
- Book Series
- New Series in NASA History Ser.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publication Year
- 1987
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Science
- Topic
- Space Science, History, Aeronautics & Astronautics
- Item Weight
- 20 oz
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801835240
ISBN-13
9780801835247
eBay Product ID (ePID)
321422
Product Key Features
Book Title
Before Lift-Off : the Making of a Space Shuttle Crew
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1987
Topic
Space Science, History, Aeronautics & Astronautics
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Science
Book Series
New Series in NASA History Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
20 oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
87-002761
Reviews
Written in a journalistic style without scholarly apparatus, it is an excellent first person account of the 1984 mission of STS-41G, ""Written in a journalistic style without scholarly apparatus, it is an excellent first person account of the 1984 mission of STS-41G"", "Written in a journalistic style without scholarly apparatus, it is an excellent first person account of the 1984 mission of STS-41G" -- Roger D. Launius, Space Times
Dewey Edition
19
Dewey Decimal
629.45/009/2
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgments Prologue Chapter 1. October 4 and 5, 1984 Chapter 2. November 1983 and Earlier Chapter 3. Week of January 23-27, 1984 Chapter 4. Week of February 27-March 2 Chapter 5. Week of April 16-20 Chapter 6. Week of June 11-15 Chapter 7. Week of July 23-27 Chapter 8. Week of September 3-7 Chapter 9. Week of September 18-21 Chapter 10. Fortnight of September 20-October 4 Chapter 11. Week of October 5-13 Chapter 12. October 13 and Afterward Epilogue Index
Synopsis
Winner of the Eugene Emme Astronautical Literature Prize from the American Astronautical Society For eight days in October 1984, seven men and women orbitied the Earth on Space Shuttle Mission 41-G. The mission has begun a year earlier; however, with the select of its crew. Before Lift-off is the extraordinary day-to-day story of these astronauts' training and flight-and is as close as most of us will ever come to flying on the space shuttle. New Yorker writer Henry Cooper obtained unprecedented permission from NASA to follow the 41-G crew from its formation through the completion of its mission. He was even given access to the heart of the training program: the crew's sessions in the shuttle mision simulators. More than a chronical of different phases in the astronauts' learning process, Before Lift-off tells the story of the bonding of these men and women. It would be Captain Robert Crippen's fourth space flight, his second command in six months, and Sally Ride's second shuttle voyage. For rookies Davida Leestra, Jon McBride, and Kathy Sullivan, and for two payload specialists, the experience would mark an initiation into the most elite groups-those people who have ventured into space., For rookies Davida Leestra, Jon McBride, and Kathy Sullivan, and for two payload specialists, the experience would mark an initiation into the most elite groups-those people who have ventured into space.
LC Classification Number
TL850.C66 1987
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