""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Foreword""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Overview of the Systems Engineering and Vehicle Design Process""; ""Conceptual Design and Tradeoffs Process""; ""Taking a Closer Look at the Design Sequence""; ""Aerothermodynamics Discipline""; ""Thermal Heating and Design""; ""Structures and Materials""; ""Propulsion Systems""; ""Flight Mechanics and Trajectories""; ""Avionics, Computers, and Control Systems""; ""Multidisciplinary Design Optimization and Simulation""; ""Human Factors and Life Support""; ""Payloads and Integration""
""Launch and Mission Operations""""Safety and Mission Assurance""; ""Some Space Transportation Systems Lessons Learned""; ""Equations and Approaches for Modeling Space Transportation Systems""; ""Historical Perspective on Space Transportation""; ""Case Study: Base Drag and Base Aeroheating for Space Vehicles""; ""Subject Index""
