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Untold Stories of the Space Shuttle Program: Unfulfilled Dreams and Missions that Never Flew 1st ed. 2022 [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 343 pages, kõrgus x laius: 240x168 mm, kaal: 610 g, 22 Illustrations, color; 191 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 343 p. 213 illus., 22 illus. in color., 1 Paperback / softback
  • Sari: Space Exploration
  • Ilmumisaeg: 28-Nov-2022
  • Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG
  • ISBN-10: 303119652X
  • ISBN-13: 9783031196522
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Untold Stories of the Space Shuttle Program: Unfulfilled Dreams and Missions that Never Flew 1st ed. 2022Suurem pilt
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 343 pages, kõrgus x laius: 240x168 mm, kaal: 610 g, 22 Illustrations, color; 191 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 343 p. 213 illus., 22 illus. in color., 1 Paperback / softback
  • Sari: Space Exploration
  • Ilmumisaeg: 28-Nov-2022
  • Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG
  • ISBN-10: 303119652X
  • ISBN-13: 9783031196522
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In September 1969, several months after the Apollo 11 lunar landing, President Richard M. Nixon established the Space Task Force to chart NASAs path for the decades to come. This imaginative vision was shattered less than six months later when, on January 13, 1970, NASA Administrator Dr. Thomas Paine announced that, owing to funding cuts, only the reusable Space Shuttle could be afforded -- there would be no space station, no return to the Moon, and no missions to Mars.





This is a story never before told about the missions and technologies that NASA had begun to plan but never fully realized. The book is a companion to the authors previous two works on the Space Shuttle. Whereas the first two books showed how the Space Shuttle flew in space and what the program accomplished, this book explains what more the Space Shuttle could have achieved and how the space transportation system could have further matured if circumstances had been otherwise. A final chapter also discusses howsome of these plans might be resurrected in future programs. 
About the Author v
Acknowledgements vi
Acronyms x
1 A Remarkable Flying Machine
1(14)
The Space Plane
1(2)
Space Shuttle 101
3(10)
Space Shuttle: What For?
13(2)
2 Upgrading the Space Shuttle
15(26)
Introduction
15(1)
The Power Extension Package
16(25)
3 Boosting the Booster
41(31)
An attempt to make the Space Shuttle safer
41(9)
The Liquid Rocket Boosters (LRB)
50(8)
Liquid Fly Back Booster: The Pre-Phase A Study
58(11)
Liquid Fly Back Booster: The Boeing and Lockheed Martin Proposals
69(3)
4 Orbital Hopping
72(31)
"A tale of two upper stages"
72(11)
Death Star
83(9)
The Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle: the space tug returns
92(6)
Newstar: Nuclear Energy Waste Space Transportation And Removal
98(5)
5 Unflown On-Orbit Servicing Capabilities
103(40)
Opening the era of on-orbit satellite servicing
103(4)
Payload Berthing System, Satellite Workshop, and Robotic Arms
107(4)
The Space Operation Center
111(8)
On-Orbit Cryogenic Fluid Management Experiments
119(9)
The Orbital Spacecraft Consumable Resupply System
128(8)
The Superfluid Helium Tanker Study
136(7)
6 Factories in Space
143(27)
The Materials Experiment Carrier
156(5)
A pioneering initiative: the Industrial Space Facility
161(5)
Ultra-vacuum: the Wake Shield Facility
166(4)
7 The Unfulfilled Potential of the External Tank
170(26)
Introduction
170(1)
The Very Large Space Telescope
171(2)
The Large Area Gamma Ray Imaging Telescope
173(12)
Propellant Scavenging System
185(6)
Aft Cargo Carrier
191(5)
8 Shipyards in Orbit
196(48)
The Large Space Systems Technology Program
196(3)
Orbital Assembly and Maintenance Study
199(6)
The Orbital Construction Demonstration Article
205(8)
The Space Construction Automated Fabrication Experiment
213(13)
The Engineering Technology Verification Platform
226(18)
9 Space Shuttle and Skylab: A Missed Opportunity
244(27)
Introduction
244(2)
Saving Skylab: The Lost Mission of STS-3
246(5)
The Skylab Reuse Study
251(4)
The Skylab Reuse Study: Shuttle Operations and Continued Growth
255(9)
The Solar Scientific Instruments Spacelab/Orbiter Report
264(5)
Epilogue
269(2)
10 Space Shuttle in Uniform
271(30)
The Lost Polar Mission
271(10)
The "Big Bird"
281(4)
The STS-Hexagon Study
285(16)
11 Lost Science and Technology Missions
301(31)
The Research and Application Module
301(12)
The Shuttle Pay load Planning Working Group
313(1)
The Shuttle InfraRed Telescope Facility
314(1)
The Large Uncooled Infrared Telescope
314(3)
The Accessible Focal Plane Telescope
317(2)
The Plasma Physics and Environmental Perturbation Laboratory
319(2)
The Communication and Navigation Research Laboratory
321(2)
Orbital Research Centrifuge
323(9)
12 Epilogue
332(10)
Index 342
Davide Sivolella is an aerospace engineer living and working in the UK with experience in the airline and aircraft manufacturing industries.. As a child, Davide developed a fascination with all kinds of flying machines, especially those that travel above the atmosphere. In fact, this passion for astronautics led him to pursue a bachelors and masters degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the Polytechnic of Turin (Italy). Born in July 1981, just a few months after the Columbias maiden flight, he developed a fondness for the Space Shuttle program. Eventually, this resulted in Springer-Praxis publishing in August 2013 his first book, To Orbit and Back Again: How the Space Shuttle Flew in Space. The book has been praised onnumerous outlets.  A sequel entitled The Space Shuttle Program: Technologies and Accomplishments was released in 2017. This new book, The Untold Stories of the Space Shuttle Program, complements its predecessors by showing what the Space Shuttle could have achieved and how the Space Transportation System could have been further matured.