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Sivolella, Davide |
The Untold Stories of the Space Shuttle Program |
I12342 |
2022 |
Book |
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Sivolella, Davide |
The Space Shuttle Program |
I10346 |
2017 |
eBook |
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Sivolella, Davide |
Space Mining and Manufacturing |
I08701 |
2019 |
eBook |
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Sivolella, Davide |
To Orbit and Back Again |
I06639 |
2014 |
eBook |
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| Title | The Untold Stories of the Space Shuttle Program : Unfulfilled Dreams and Missions that Never Flew |
| Author(s) | Sivolella, Davide |
| Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Springer
2. Springer International Publishing, 2022. |
| Description | XIII, 343 p. 213 illus., 22 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | In September 1969, several months after the Apollo 11 lunar landing, President Richard M. Nixon established the Space Task Force to chart NASA???s 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 author???s 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 how some of these plans might be resurrected in future programs. |
| ISBN,Price | 9783031196539 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. Astronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. HISTORY
6. HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY
7. SOLAR SYSTEM
8. SPACE PHYSICS
9. TECHNOLOGY
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| Title | The Space Shuttle Program : Technologies and Accomplishments |
| Author(s) | Sivolella, Davide |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2017. |
| Description | IX, 360 p. 153 illus., 59 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book tells the story of the Space Shuttle in its many different roles as orbital launch platform, orbital workshop, and science and technology laboratory. It focuses on the technology designed and developed to support the missions of the Space Shuttle program. Each mission is examined, from both the technical and managerial viewpoints. Although outwardly identical, the capabilities of the orbiters in the late years of the program were quite different from those in 1981. Sivolella traces the various improvements and modifications made to the shuttle over the years as part of each mission story. Technically accurate but with a pleasing narrative style and simple explanations of complex engineering concepts, the book provides details of many lesser known concepts, some developed but never flown, and commemorates the ingenuity of NASA and its partners in making each Space Shuttle mission push the boundaries of what we can accomplish in space. Using press kits, original papers, newspaper and magazine articles, memoirs and interviews, this book provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of the shuttle???s many missions and will refocus interest on a remarkable flying machine and space program that is often pushed to the background. |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319549460 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Aerospace engineering
2. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
3. ASTRONAUTICS
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. ENGINEERING DESIGN
7. Popular Science, general
8. Popular works
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| Title | Space Mining and Manufacturing : Off-World Resources and Revolutionary Engineering Techniques |
| Author(s) | Sivolella, Davide |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2019. |
| Description | XI, 207 p. 102 illus., 38 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book produces convincing evidence that exploiting the potential of space could help solve many environmental and social issues affecting our planet, such as pollution, overcrowding, resource depletion and conflicts, economic inequality, social unrest, economic instability and unemployment. It also touches on the legal problems that will be encountered with the implementation of the new technologies and new laws that will need to be enacted and new organizations that will need to be formed to deal with these changes. This proposition for a space economy is not science fiction, but well within the remit of current or under development technologies. Numerous technologies are described and put together to form a coherent and feasible road map that, if implemented, could lead humankind towards a brighter future. |
| ISBN,Price | 9783030308810 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Aerospace engineering
2. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
3. ASTRONAUTICS
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. INTERNATIONAL LAW
7. Law of the sea
8. Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space
9. Popular Science in Technology
10. Science and Technology Studies
11. SPACE SCIENCES
12. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
13. TECHNOLOGY
14. Technology???Sociological aspects
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| Title | To Orbit and Back Again : How the Space Shuttle Flew in Space |
| Author(s) | Sivolella, Davide |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer New York, 2014. |
| Description | XXII, 502 p. 245 illus., 95 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The question may be simple, but the answer is not as easy to give. This book describes the structures and systems used each time the Shuttle was launched, and then follows an imaginary mission, explaining how those structures and systems were used in orbital operations and the return to Earth. Details of how anomalous events were dealt with on individual missions are also provided, as are the recollections of those who built and flew the Shuttle. Highly illustrated with many diagrams, photographs and technical drawings, To Orbit and Back Again ??? focuses on the engineering aspects of the Shuttle ??? describes the systems and subsystems in clear, non-technical terms ??? brings to the fore the design work behind the Space Shuttle and the mission itself. ?? ?? |
| ISBN,Price | 9781461409830 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Aerospace engineering
2. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
3. ASTRONAUTICS
4. ASTRONOMY
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. Popular Science in Astronomy
8. SPACE SCIENCES
9. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
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