Final Countdown: NASA and the End of the Space Shuttle Program - Couverture rigide

Duggins, Pat

 
9780813031460: Final Countdown: NASA and the End of the Space Shuttle Program
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ISBN 10 : 081303146X ISBN 13 : 9780813031460
Editeur : University Press of Florida, 2007

Synopsis

Each new flight brings us one step closer to the retirement of the Space Shuttle, once the cornerstone of the U.S. space program. ""Final Countdown"" is the riveting history of NASA's shuttle program, its missions, and its impending demise. It also examines the plans and early development of the space agency's next major effort: the Orion Crew Exploration Capsule. Journalist Pat Duggins, National Public Radio's resident ""space expert,"" chronicles the planning stages of the shuttle program in the early 1970s, the thrills of the first flight in 1981, construction of the International Space Station in the 1990s, and the decision in the early 2000s to shut it down. As a rookie reporter visiting the Kennedy Space Center hangar to view the Challenger wreckage, Duggins was in a unique position to offer a poignant eyewitness account of NASA's first shuttle disaster. In ""Final Countdown"", he recounts the agency's struggle to rebound after the Challenger and Columbia tragedies, and explores how politics, scientific entrepreneurship, and the human drive for exploration have impacted the program in sometimes unexpected ways. Duggins has covered eighty-six shuttle missions, and his twenty-year working relationship with NASA has given him unprecedented access to personnel. ""Final Countdown"" is a story of lost dreams, new hopes, and the ongoing conquest of space.

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À propos de l?auteur

Pat Duggins is senior news analyst at public radio station WMFE-FM in Orlando. His documentary on the first anniversary of the Columbia accident earned WMFE a prestigious First Place National Headliner Award and an Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio - Television News Directors Association.

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Éditeur
University Press of Florida
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
081303146X
ISBN 13 
9780813031460
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
232
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0813033845 ISBN 13 :  9780813033846
Editeur : University Press of Florida, 2009
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