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1 online resource (xviii, 290 pages) : illustrations |
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Springer-Praxis books in space exploration |
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Springer-Praxis books in space exploration.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
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engineering |
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verkeer |
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traffic |
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ruimtewetenschap |
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space science |
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wetenschap |
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science |
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astronomie |
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astronomy |
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ruimte |
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space |
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Sciences (General) |
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Empirische wetenschappen (algemeen) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Challenger (Spacecraft)
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Challenger (Véhicule spatial) cct |
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Challenger (Spacecraft) cct |
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Challenger (Spacecraft) fast |
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Space shuttles -- United States
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Astronauts.
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Astronauts
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astronauts.
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Space shuttles -- United States.
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Astronautes.
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Navettes spatiales -- États-Unis.
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Astronauts.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Sciences de la vie.
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Astronomie.
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Astronauts
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Space shuttles
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780387496795 |
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0387496793 |
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9780387465302 |
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0387465308 |
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